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[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 124: I’m really being tailed now and they’re after something or they’d have bagged me already.
at bag, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke viii: Ball – a big party with girls, drinks and marihuana.
at ball, n.3
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 3: That’s the way I dig it. I do it nice. Play it cool. I don’t blow my top like other cats and go out and rob to get stuff.
at blow one’s top, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 3: I was saving the bombers. I smoked all the sticks.
at bomber, n.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 89: Then we booted them.
at boot, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 76: Too many brass buttons been around.
at brass buttons (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 124: Soon as I got the angle on that I breezed [...] I legged it for home fast.
at breeze, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 94: I saw a sweet stingy-brim in which I would look fine.
at stingy-brim, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 127: The party’s all busted up.
at busted, adj.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 111: Everybody looked like they’d got in a good buzz.
at buzz, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 45: You just want to be a hep cat with pretty clothes you don’t earn.
at hep-cat, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 34: ‘You ever smoke dream-stuff?’ ‘Charge?’ ‘Yeah.’.
at charge, n.2
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 140: That was cold news.
at cold, adj.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 112: But that finished it. That cooled me off.
at cool off, v.2
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 40: You ain’t deucing out, are you?
at deuce (out) (v.) under deuce, n.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 38: We ditched out.
at ditch out (v.) under ditch, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 144: We’re waiting to eat them cats raw.
at eat, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke viii: Flower – a homosexual.
at flower, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 68: I pulled the score by myself. I was gone about an hour and when I came back I got fistfuls of alligator skins. I got more money than John D and Henry Ford.
at frogskin, n.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 89: Right after the party we was supposed to jump you, get it on.
at get it on, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 105: They were all good records: Frankie Lane, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstein, all gone good singers. They were goners.
at gone, adv.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 36: That boy’s all gone.
at gone, adj.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 4: You goof off, feel tired, dopey.
at goof off, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 42: The driver was greedy-anxious so we flashed a lot of green stuff in his face.
at green stuff (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke viii: Zip – a gun made from a toy ‘Airplane Gun’ that shoots a .22 bullet.
at zip (gun), n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 135: I slapped the fight out of her and then slapped hell out of her.
at hell, the, phr.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 162: She’s been hitting the hemp too hard.
at hemp, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 115: We hustled and got more chairs and some tables.
at hustle, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 116: I sent some of the boys out to jack some juice.
at jack, v.3
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke viii: Jam – a girl of easy virtue.
at jam, n.3
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