1923 D. Hammett ‘Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 147: Cut it, kid! For God’s sake, not that!at cut it, v.1
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 141: If everything’s all right, and there’s no elbows tagging along, somebody’ll come up to you.at elbow, n.1
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 145: Just the sort of girl who could easily fall into the hands of a mob of highbinders.at highbinder, n.
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 137: ‘I’m going to call these people’s bluff!’ ‘That’s going to make it really lovely for your daughter.’.at lovely, adj.
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 148: ‘How’d you rap to it?’ Quayle asked me, politely.at rap to (v.) under rap, v.1
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 137: He had made his several millions by sandbagging everybody that stood in his way.at sandbag, v.1
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 149: She’s had a skinful of hop ever since we started.at skinful, n.
1923 D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 149: The card she beat him with was a threat of spilling everything she knew about him to the newspapers.at spill, v.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 220: You can’t fight worth a damn!at worth a damn under worth a..., phr.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 159: Dick Foley — our shadow ace — was idle.at ace, n.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 157: It’s got to be air-tight on the other end [...] if we’re going to catch our fish.at airtight, adj.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 217: Hold these, Milk River, while I take this pork-and-beaner for a romp.at pork-and-beaner, n.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 221: She began to shoot questions at me: Was this still so-and-so? Was that still thus?at so-and-so, adj.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 200: Slim tried to beat the Toad out of two bits’ worth of Java.at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 220: I picked the sawn-off shotgun out of its nest. ‘Can I borrow this? I want to make a believer out of a guy.’.at believer, n.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 214: ‘Who shot him?’ ‘One of the Circle H.A.R., you can bet your neck on that!’.at bet one’s neck (v.) under bet, v.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 167: If it pleases the Grandfather of Bloodhounds to flatter Chang Li Chang.at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
1925 D. Hammett ‘The Scorched Face’ Story Omnibus (1966) 84: This cellar looked like a bloomer. We were wasting time here.at bloomer, n.2
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 205: A city man in range country is bound to find himself sitting on a disagreeable bone sooner or later.at bone, n.6
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 221: I found I knew some of her friends. A couple of them were high-class swindlers, one was a bootleg magnate.at bootleg, adj.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 227: Ain’t we going to bushwhack them waddies none?at bushwhack, v.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 233: You may be a curly wolf with your rod [...] but if you try any of your monkey’s business on me, I’ll turn you over my knee.at monkey business, n.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 221: These hicks think you’re a bust, but I know different.at bust, n.
1925 D. Hammett ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’ Story Omnibus (1966) 19: When this thing busted loose I had to hide.at bust loose (v.) under bust, v.1
1925 D. Hammett ‘The Scorched Face’ Story Omnibus (1966) 80: Pat flashed his buzzer. Though the black man had poor English, he had knowledge of police badges.at buzzer, n.3
1925 D. Hammett ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’ Story Omnibus (1966) 30: The princess can give you a fat cut of the profits in a busted caper.at caper, n.2
1925 D. Hammett ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’ Story Omnibus (1966) 18: I was tempted to chuck the empty gun at his head. But that was too chancy.at chancy, adj.
1925 D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 232: A minute later he was carrying a charge over to the hypo.at charge, n.2
1925 D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 159: Things ain’t been anyways quiet since the japs began buyin’ stores in the Chink streets.at Chink, adj.