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Powers That Prey 97: The ‘A Number One Gun,’ like the millionaire, is classified in a ‘Social Register’ and a ‘Who’s Who’.at A-1, adj.
Powers That Prey 97: The ‘A Number One Gun,’ like the millionaire, is classified in a ‘Social Register’ and a ‘Who’s Who’. Powers That Prey 256: I knew ’t I couldn’t steal worth a damn.at worth a damn under worth a..., phr.
Powers That Prey 21: I don’t give a damn whether he does or not.at not give a damn, v.
Powers That Prey 183: Any one ’ud think that that copper had hit you with a baseball bat the way you play the baby act.at do the — act (v.) under act, n.
Powers That Prey 215: Some are ‘dead’ and can do nothing more profitable than ride on their passes; others are half ‘dead’ and are equal to but little more than arresting tramps and train-jumpers; and others are very much ‘alive’.at alive, adj.
Powers That Prey 237: There’s no knowin’ how little ’ud make me lose my hold on the bottle.at lose one’s bottle (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
Powers That Prey 250: The scribes drifted into a ‘Free and Easy,’ where men and women sing songs, and then pass their hats and bonnets around for pennies and ha’pennies.at free-and-easy, n.
Powers That Prey 81: Losers in a pig’s eye!at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
Powers That Prey 56: [They] listened to three ‘darkies’ explain, to the accompaniment of three guitars, that they find the Western Union a convenience no matter where they roam, and that they will telephone their baby, who’ll send ten or twenty maybe.at baby, n.
Powers That Prey 40: I’m a bad lot if you like, but I wouldn’t turn mouthpiece for the whole five thousand.at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
Powers That Prey 183: I’m gettin’ bally tired o’ hearin’ you whine.at bally, adv.
Powers That Prey 10: Prominent Citizen on a Bat.at on a bat under bat, n.3
Powers That Prey 183: You’ve been belly-aching around these joints for the last two months, an’ I’m gettin’ tired o’ lookin’ at you.at bellyache, v.
Powers That Prey 211: Don’t you want to give me back that watch? My best girl gave me that.at best girl (n.) under best, adj.
Powers That Prey 12: I’m put here to execute the law, and you bet your life I’ll do it.at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
Powers That Prey 39: ‘I want you to put me next.’ ‘What the blazes do you come to me about “next” for? I ain’t next to nothin’ in this town except you dead ones at the Front Office.’.at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Powers That Prey 203–4: I can’t help figurin’ out what I can make of a nervy kid if I get my blinkers on him.at blinkers, n.
Powers That Prey 217: In polite society it is bad form to make a woman formulate a ‘bluff’ without giving her time to make a guess or two.at bluff, n.1
Powers That Prey 255: I tried gamblin’ for a bit, but I couldn’t win nothin’; a man that’s down on ’is luck shouldn’t touch the bones.at bones, n.1
Powers That Prey 126: Next time ’t I chew the rag with you about cuttin’ up in the streets an’ boozin’, you want to listen.at boozing, n.
Powers That Prey 60: I’ve seen those yaps come to town an’ throw up their hands at sights that a Bowery kid wouldn’t drop a cigarette snipe to see.at bowery, adj.
Powers That Prey 170: It was a great bull somebody wasn’t croaked for the killin’ o’ Patrolman Stimson two years ago.at bull, n.2
Powers That Prey 144: He’s the meanest grafter in this berg.at burg, n.1
Powers That Prey 225: At the age of fifteen she was an expert pickpocket, and ‘buzzed’ around ‘molls’ at funerals, and relieved them of their ‘leathers’.at buzz, v.1
Powers That Prey 22: Find out who got that thimble an’ the roll on the trolley over in Jersey — the chief is hostile an’ wants to know — Ruderick MeKlowd is on the case.at on the case under case, n.1
Powers That Prey 26: He stood it as long as he could, his face and hands being cut and bruised and smeared all over with blood, and then cried out: ‘I cave — I cave!’.at cave, v.
Powers That Prey 170: He was a copper, and we fly cops have got to send some bloke to the chair for bastin’ him.at chair, the, n.
Powers That Prey 254: I s’pose you want to hear my rag-chewer now?at rag chewer, n.
Powers That Prey 198: I ain’t no chicken—passed my forty-eighth birthday last month.at chicken, n.
Powers That Prey 102: Can he keep his clapper quiet?at clapper, n.1
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