1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 18: I wanted to be with it someday like Grack, all there, hard, dark, and sure of himself.at all there, adj.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 154: I’m just as good as any of those Pittsburgh twist-and-twirls.at twist (and twirl), n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 257: Well then you’re nothing but another dumb-ass mark in the crowd.at dumb-ass, adj.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 16: I love, really love to see how the mark runs and then he’s headed off by a wideawake patch.at wide-awake, adj.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 290: Belly slamming in the snow for prizes.at belly-slamming, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 20: She claimed stomach ache and Pauline answered she was too young for bicarb in the heart.at bicarb, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 90: It’s well known [...] that a female motorist will never crawl into the backseat with a lad who has his bindle wrapped in a dirty shirt.at bindle, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 172: Tad blame it, these shoes make me nervous.at tad blame it!, excl.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 6: They were blowing for a fight.at blow for (v.) under blow, v.1
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 112: Ain’t been deflowered yet, either, have you honey? No sir ee.at no siree (bob)!, excl.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 194: He had lost the swell pimping and posings of the carnie with a boodle in his pocket.at boodle, n.1
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 96: You think you’re going to buddy up with me?at buddy, v.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 192: You got business with me so’s you have to hear? This, of course, is the carnie word for: Mind your own!at business, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 18: We’ll say goombye to the habit together, kid.at goom-bye, phr.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 87: No F.O.B.’s, C.O.D.’s, junkies, lushes, agitators.at c.o.d., n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 137: I mean my talk, my way with the crowd [...] who shuffled forward to my cackle.at cackle, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 205: Once a pretty girl, calico and eyes averted, awkward and shy, stood watching us.at calico, adj.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 4: He was a sallow stooped carnie [...] but he had a knack: he could chant them into anything.at chant, v.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 192: Don’t make me chop it up tonight.at chop it up (v.) under chop, v.1
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 26: ‘Chop-chop?’ Grack asked, handing a sandwich toward me.at chop-chop, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 17: I used to join out the odds, had myself a stable of clappers for the gash-hounds too dumb to do their own howling.at clapper, n.2
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 235: A fat-armed cookie with speckled baldness on his biceps.at cookee, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 198: We love each other. We’ll cop out together.at cop out, v.1
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 222: You sweat. You do in your pants. You crawl around like an animal.at do, v.1
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 285: Donkeydust, eh? Ain’t that what all women are? All wives?at donkey dust (n.) under donkey, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 99: Smoke nothing but big two-for-thirty-five cigars now [...] Got a boxful in my duff.at duff, n.4
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 23: Whose white dust on my lips? Fever’s! Mr. Fever’s dust!at dust, n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 87: No F.O.B.’s, C.O.D.’s, junkies, lushes, agitators.at f.o.b., n.
1956 H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 239: We’re looking for a friend [...] You know him. Needed it bad, fierce.at fierce, adv.