1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 352/1: If he didn’t get a cut of that prize hunk of beef - there was a jingle you had better read.at beef, n.1
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 363/2: They’re killers. And they’re cold. Youi’ve got to be the same way.at cold, adj.
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 358/1: She figures Hurry should have a slice of the Giant. Forty percent cut-in.at cut-in, n.
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Big Bk of Black Mask Stories (2010) 345: It [i.e. a punch] landed with a sound that could be heard all over the Garden.at Garden, the, n.
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 349/1: He greased me so that I could get the Big Boy away from the little lake town where I found him.at grease, v.1
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 367/1: Connors did the job on Pardo, with a Maxim-silenced gun under a towel.at do a job on (v.) under job, n.2
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 346/2: You got a money fighter, Gus. All yours?at money, adj.
1930 R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 358/1: he was getting set to spill something, and his pumper went bad.at pumper, n.
1939 D.V. Babcock ‘Murder on the Gayway’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 569/1: he’s down there in that bail-bond office. That’s his hoopie out in front of it.at hooptie, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: ‘That lets you out.’ ‘In a pig’s whinny, it does’.at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 224/2: You don’t know your rump from a hole in the ground.at not know one’s arse/ass from a hole in the ground (v.) under arse, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: This is a cop case. A blue’s been knocked off.at blue, n.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: The crut who put the bump on that blonde is named Gorilla George.at put the bump on (v.) under bump, n.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 227/2: Claims she’s a showgirl. used to be in burly.at burley, n.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 230/1: The skirt was with the two who put the burn on MacReady. They just fixed her up with a slug, too.at put the burn on (v.) under burn, n.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 230/2: He got to his car, tramped on the button up through Central Park.at button, n.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/1: Now they’ve gone up against a chair job, everybody’ll get put on the pan about it.at chair job (n.) under chair, the, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 228/2: Watch it. They got a chatter gun.at chattergun (n.) under chatter, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 220: Guy gets toughened up after twenty years on a beat. Makes it that much harder to check out.at check out, v.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 233/1: You like you been in another fracas [...] Get chewed up a little?at chew up, v.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/1: Crysake, don’t you Ames dummies know a copy when you see one?at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 229/1: The mob that knocked her off has gone kill-crazy. If we don’t put the clamps on ’em--.at put the clamps on (v.) under clampers, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 229/1: The mob that knocked her off has gone kill-crazy. If we don’t put the clamps on ’em--.at -crazy, sfx
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: The crut who put the bump on that blonde is named Gorilla George.at crut, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/2: You ain’t gonna lay the finger on the lads who did this job just by puttin’ the peep on the hockshops.at lay the finger on (v.) under finger, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/1: Where was you when the fireworks went off?at fireworks, n.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 230/1: The skirt was with the two who put the burn on MacReady. They just fixed her up with a slug, too.at fix up, v.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 226/2: Phony ‘flash wares’ bought at auction [...] for sale to overwise suckers.at flash ware (n.) under flash, adj.
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 240/2: I hammered Dumont until I dragged the babe!s address outa him.at hammer, v.1
1940 S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 224/1: They’s a lot of Jersey hockers come over to do business.at hocker, n.1