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Tramping with Tramps 141: I have known them to live on ‘wind-puddin’,’ as they call air, for over forty-eight hours.at air pudding (n.) under air, n.
Tramping with Tramps 141: I have known them to live on ‘wind-puddin’,’ as they call air, for over forty-eight hours. Tramping with Tramps 331: I got all-fired sleepy.at all-fired, adv.
Tramping with Tramps 330: We had a reg’lar out-’n’-outer.at out-and-outer, n.
Tramping with Tramps 345: An’ – an’ – that song ’n’ dance.at song and dance, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 384: The baldy [old man] ’e comes himself, ’n’ asted what I wanted.at baldy, n.
Tramping with Tramps 348: I’ll give you five balls fer ’im.at ball, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 134: They will take things that do not belong to them if they are sure of not being caught, but this safety is so vain a hope that it is seldom ‘banked on’.at bank on (v.) under bank, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 106: A kid who averaged [...] three dollars a day for almost a week, by standing in front of shops and ‘battering’ the ladies as they passed.at batter, v.
Tramping with Tramps 279: I’ve been on this beat so long and have watched my chances so carefully that I know now just where to go when hungry.at beat, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 268: I was afraid to beat my way on the railroad between the two cities.at beat one’s way (v.) under beat, v.
Tramping with Tramps 388: When a man denounces to the police a beggar who has accosted him in the street, the latter, in relating the experience [...] says that the ‘bloke beefed’ on him (gave him away).at beef, v.1
Tramping with Tramps 388: Wait till I catch that gun Mike. It’ll be his last beef if I ever find him.at beef, n.2
Tramping with Tramps 392: BEEFER: one who ‘squeals’ on, or gives away, a tramp or criminal.at beefer (n.) under beef, v.1
Tramping with Tramps 118: Bet cher life!at (you) bet your life! (excl.) under bet, v.
Tramping with Tramps 240: ‘We’d been nowhere ’thout the bible.’ [...] The ‘bible’ is tramp slang for the hawker’s little parcel of things which he is supposed to peddle.at bible, n.
Tramping with Tramps 252: On the way I saw more of Ireland in a dear old Biddy than I did in Dublin.at biddy, n.2
Tramping with Tramps 103: Vagabondage in this part of the country is composed principally of ‘blanket-stiffs’ [...] The blanket stiffs are men (or sometimes women) who walk, or ‘drill,’ as they say, from Salt Lake City to San Francisco about twice a year, begging their way from ranch to ranch and always carrying their blankets with them.at blanket stiff (n.) under blanket, n.
Tramping with Tramps 92: Why dont they get out o’ those blasted holes and come over here?at blasted, adj.1
Tramping with Tramps 186: For the German tramp, though a great talker and ‘blower,’ is a coward.at blower, n.2
Tramping with Tramps 252: We English fellers know how to bluff. We’ve been bluffin’ the world now for a good many years.at bluff, v.
Tramping with Tramps 388: He cautioned me not to say anything to the ‘boes’ (hoboes) about his being my ‘meal-ticket’.at bo, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 242: Lemme alone; I’m on the brain [I’m thinking].at on the brain under brain, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 387: The man who has ‘just broken out’ is [...] one who has newly joined the fraternity.at break out, v.
Tramping with Tramps 370: He bellered out, ‘Make a break, anyhow, ’n’ perhaps we’ll give ’em the slip.’.at make a break (v.) under break, n.2
Tramping with Tramps 324: A St. Louis beggar called ‘Bud’.at bud, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 238: She exclaimed suddenly: ‘Blokes, I’m bughouse.’ Asked what she meant, she said: ‘I’m losin’ me brain.’.at bughouse, adj.1
Tramping with Tramps 253: The fellers you’ve been bummin’ with are nothin’ but skugees [a species of gay-cat].at bum, v.3
Tramping with Tramps 137: It ain’t work that makes blokes hungry; it’s bummin’!at bumming, n.
Tramping with Tramps 134: The wandering vagabond considers him the ‘bunco-man’ of the beggars’ world [...] He will do anything to get money from a hobo.at bunco man (n.) under bunco, n.
Tramping with Tramps 369: We was so bughouse we cal’lated they oughter do the biz.at do the business (v.) under business, n.
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