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[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 52: It’s all up in de air wid ’em.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 297: ‘My friend So-and-So’ – mentioning a well-known literary man – ‘is a fool.’.
at so-and-so, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 185: Baksheesh rates are fairly well fixed at the Mina House.
at baksheesh, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 268: Two unhappy and lonely beings meet and have a regular ‘bat’ in romanticism and soul-sickness.
at bat, n.3
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 331: ‘Be jabers!’ he said.
at bejabers!, excl.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 317: My long bit in stir had ruined my eyesight.
at long bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 160: You dude! [...] you blank, blank, blankety blank, you come down here in your swell clothes and pipe us off.
at blankety-blank, phr.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 160: You dude! [...] you blank, blank, blankety blank, you come down here in your swell clothes and pipe us off.
at blank, adj.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 39: Some blokes [...] kill demselves when dey get blue.
at blue, adj.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 38: I booze too much.
at booze, v.
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 38: Chuck, I’m dead broke, gimme a drink.
at broke, adj.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 35: Me and me bunch ain’t no Irving-Terrys.
at bunch, n.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 34: Walk jest as if you was walking on the Lane (Bowery) wid your bundle (girl) on your arm.
at bundle, n.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 319: Girls who knew the business and were as wise as any guy that ever done his bit.
at business, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 34: ’Tain’t no cake walk, dis hard walk.
at cakewalk, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 181: She ‘acted’ for a while in Chuck Connor’s play, and was one of the best chinners among all the ‘rags’.
at chinner, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 321: I’d like ter see her come into Barney’s and try to clean this place out!
at clean out, v.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 37: All coons look alike to me. Dere’s no difference between a gal and a lady.
at coon, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 311: When we get together in the coop we have our laws.
at coop, n.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 139: There are [...] two metropolitan classes of these miserable beings – the Tenderloin Girl and the Bowery ‘Cruiser’.
at cruiser, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 37: A gent is a dammed good man.
at damned, adv.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 108: Looking about for something which would give the newspaper, which was a ‘dead one,’ a new lease of life.
at dead, adj.
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 324: There’s many a ‘dead’ grafter who’s down and out, who [...] can no longer support himself.
at dead, adj.
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 246: He got a ‘wise guy’ to teach him a little business sense and ‘got down’ and ‘dug’.
at dig, v.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 117: They even ‘do’ it, when it assumes a ‘swell garb’.
at do, v.2
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 49: The thief [...] is ‘on the level’ with his pals, and is consistent and honest in his attempt to ‘do’ the respectable world.
at do, v.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 318: Now I’m little better than a door-mat grafter.
at doormat (thief) (n.) under doormat, n.
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 255: It is every man’s business [...] to ‘dope’ himself, either with work, love, religion, or mere whisky, sufficiently to see things other than they are in reality.
at dope, v.1
[US] H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 38: A junk is a down bad man, real bad.
at down, adv.5
[US] H. Hapgood Types from City Streets 246: He got a ‘wise guy’ to teach him a little business sense and ‘got down’ and ‘dug’.
at get down, v.2
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