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(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 321: Go ahead and cop a sneak. The truck won’t be ready for quite a while.at cop a sneak (v.) under cop a..., v.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 321: Go ahead and cop a sneak. The truck won’t be ready for quite a while. (con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 242: That’s the big mucky muck from the employers’ group. Anything he says that group does.at high muck-a-muck, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 194: Who was implicated in the ambulance chasing scandal?at ambulance-chasing (adj.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 189: He’s the politician’s ace strong-arm guy.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 134: He’ll wind up [...] transferred to the ass end of Staten Island, the schmuck.at arse-end, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 169: We go in [the water] in our B.V.D.’s.at B.V.D.s, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 178: ‘How about the feed bag? Ain’t we entitled?’.at feed bag, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 297: They were bag men for themselves and higher-ups.at bagman, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 333: This stop [i.e. on a delivery round] is a real ball-breaker.at ball-breaker, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 93: He fell for it, balls and all.at balls and all under balls, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 131: Don’t get your balls in an uproar.at get one’s balls in an uproar (v.) under balls, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 163: He’s got balls. Plenty of character.at balls, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 134: Let the shise in the legal department break his balls with it.at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
(con. 1910s) Hoods (1953) 40: I thought of the coming cold weather [...] I’ll bet I freeze my balls off.at balls, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 315: Standing like a mope in the middle of the street with my banana in my hands.at banana, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 157: I was frustrated. I needed a little of the bang action we had had in the old days. Things were too dull.at bang, adj.2
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 50: ‘Speakeasies?’ ‘Yep, that’s what they call them: closed-door beer joints with peep-holes in the doors.’.at beer joint (n.) under beer, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 251: ‘I got a private party tonight.’ ‘Oh, the one with the nice – big ones.’.at big one, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 62: He was what we called a ‘bitch at the wheel’ [...] the most skillful driver on the East Side.at bitch, n.1
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 82: Even jail was not a safe sanctuary for that big scar-faced blubberhead.at blubber-head (n.) under blubber, n.2
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 115: Some pair of boobies on that baby.at booby, n.2
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 246: We do shylocking, and a little booking there – horses and numbers.at book, v.1
(con. 1910s) Hoods (1953) 16: Pleased to meet up with you boytchicks.at boychick (n.) under boy, n.2
(con. 1910s) Hoods (1953) 32: All this guy Johnson did was bullshit about this and that.at bullshit, v.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 220: We didn’t hear no shot. Did you give him the business, Noodles?at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 153: According to all the [...] stories of hoodlums breaking away from the mob, he invariably gets the ‘business’ if he quits.at business, n.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 162: The Boss is up early in the morning taking care of business.at take care of business, v.
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 181: Max smiled and whispered [...] ‘Bust-outs,’ meaning that nine out of ten times a seven would show up.at bust-out, n.2
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 315: I shot down West Street on the button.at on the button under button, n.1
(con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 189: This guy! He cops the cake [...] he could teach us how to steal an election.at take the cake, v.
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