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(con. 1919) Schnozzola 29: On account of your brother, an up-and-up cop, I’m not going to pinch you this time.at up and up, adj.
(con. 1919) Schnozzola 29: On account of your brother, an up-and-up cop, I’m not going to pinch you this time. (con. 1920s) Schnozzola 49: He pointed out that the customers were ‘taking an Arthur Duffy,’ or running for the door.at take it on the Arthur Duffy, v.
Schnozzola 37: All my life had been lived in Harlem and Coney Island and Lower Manhattan, never on the Avenue except to walk on it. By ‘Avenue’ Durante meant Broadway.at Avenue, the, n.
(con. 1939) Schnozzola 207: He feared he had cancer, a disease referred to by Broadwayites as ‘Big Casino’. [Ibid.] 248: Lou has got Big Casino, like he always feared.at big casino, n.
(con. 1910s) Schnozzola 31: We mean to find this certain bimbo and shoot him right in the head.at bimbo, n.
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 42: What’d I tell yah? [...] Your horse has blowed his cork!at blow one’s cork (v.) under blow, v.2
(con. 1943) Schnozzola 219: Durante was bumped off the plane in Salt Lake City to allow a sergeant to have his seat.at bump (off), v.
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 60: This was a song about an opium addict. Under the influence of a drug known as Chinese tobacco, or Wyoming ketchup.at Chinese tobacco (n.) under Chinese, adj.
(con. 1936) Schnozzola 193: Durante choked up, and Lou lent him his handkerchief.at choked, adj.
Schnozzola 38: There was an airplane flyer living at the apartment house where Jeanne lived [...] I’d go to the window to see when she’s comin’ back with that cloud-chaser.at cloud-chaser (n.) under cloud, n.
(con. 1930) Schnozzola 149: I signed the contract in good faith, and there are no loopholes with me, I don’t throw any curves.at throw a curve (v.) under curve, n.
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 88: Eddie borrowed a hairpin, straightened it, and used it as a ‘yen-hock’, the needle upon which the supposed dream beads were toasted.at dream, n.4
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 72: A truckman called at an appointed place [...] or a ‘drop’ at a garage.at drop, n.1
(con. 1927) Schnozzola 107: Three gun boys were on the prowl for the Quaker. The ‘enforcers’ chanced to be sitting in the club.at enforcer, n.
(con. 1910s) Schnozzola 31: ‘Musta heard you was lookin’ for evens’ – meaning the prospective victim was the object of revenge.at evens, n.
(con. 1923) Schnozzola 129: Madden [...] had been made a scapegoat for Little Patsy’s fade-out.at fade-out, n.
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 88: He called this turn ‘The Hop Fiend’s Easter’.at fiend, n.
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 61: I’m so scared one of them fellows some of these nights is goin’ to get liquor in him, or flit or somethin’, and he’ll shoot this fellow Harris between his eyes.at flip, v.4
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 63: They called the Mickey a ‘Shoo Fly’. [...] Being a laxative for a horse, you can imagine what it does to the anatomy of a human being if he gets boisterous or rough.at shoo-fly, n.
(con. 1931) Schnozzola 150: She warbled the lyrics, ‘I’m taking no chances sitting on my Frances in the Great Indoors’.at frances, n.
(con. 1933) Schnozzola 160: I always speak my mind. I run my business that way, right from the shoulder.at straight from the shoulder, adv.
(con. 1910s) Schnozzola 54: The lame boy neglected to go to school to go with other truants to hang-outs on New York’s East Side, gimping around, as he put it.at gimp, v.
(con. 1926) Schnozzola 100: The grape flowed.at grape, n.1
(con. 1910s) Schnozzola 25: I watched him one night as he got on his hip. He was tryin’ to coax me to take a smoke.at lie on the hip (v.) under hip, n.3
(con. 1920s) Schnozzola 49: One evening Nolan’s hole-in-the-wall was held up by Jimmy’s old friend Big Joe Tennyson.at hole in the wall, n.
Schnozzola 22: But a guy would come in and buy wine, Holy Moe!at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
(con. 1944) Schnozzola 235: Jim went to Cartier’s to-day and put two dollars down on a gold hoop.at hoop, n.1
(con. 1937) Schnozzola 203: The dancer put his hands to his own throat, then said, ‘Hot-cha! Hot-cha!’.at hotcha!, excl.
(con. 1920) Schnozzola 29: This downstairs hutch did a noisy business.at hutch, n.
(con. 1930s) Schnozzola 107: An English gentleman, known as a Joe Blow, was commissioned to accompany the trunks to New York as their dummy owner. A Joe Blow is an intermediary who undertakes the delivery of something without having had actual contact with goods consigned to interested parties.at Joe Blow (from Kokomo) (n.) under joe, n.1
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