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St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Jan. 2/4: There are many brace faro games in St Louis, but none is probably better known to the police and sporting men generally than Hank Wider’s [...] brace house at No. 9 S. Fifth street.at brace house, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Jan. 2/4: There are many brace faro games in St Louis, but none is probably better known to the police and sporting men generally than Hank Wider’s [...] brace house at No. 9 S. Fifth street. St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 20 Dec. 12/2: A strange patois that is almost [...] unintelligible. Go in and order coffee and cakes and your man roars out: ‘Three out and draw one’.at draw one (phr.) under draw, v.4
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 21 Aug. 11/1: This may make Mr Sullivan’s angry passions rise [...] but Mr Sullivan is a very single-minded in the ring and there is a bare possibility that he may get ‘gay’.at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To look for bother’ and ‘to look for trouble’ mean wanting to fight.at bother, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To brace’ is to borrow.at brace, v.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘A bundle’ and ‘a bunch’ mean rolls of green bills .at bunch, n.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘Chasing the can,’ ‘rolling the rock’ and ‘working the growler’ al mean sending the tin can down to the corner bar-room for beer.at chase the can (v.) under can, n.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To come down’ means to pay .at come down, v.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: Street Slang [...] To ‘croak’ is to die’, while to ‘do a croak’ and ‘to do a gun croak’ mean to be shot.at do a croak (v.) under croak, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: Street Slang [...] To ‘croak’ is to die’, while to ‘do a croak’ and ‘to do a gun croak’ mean to be shot.at do a gun croak (v.) under croak, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: There are only two terms which describe an honest man; to wit, a ‘dead square’ and ‘dead white’.at dead square (n.) under dead, adj.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To throw down’ means to do a mean trick.at throw down, v.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘A fly fakir,’ a gypsy term, meaning simply a shrewd, plausible, and inventive man. In other words, an ingenious liar.at fakir, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘A farmer’ [is] any man who does not know anything, coming of course from the cockney contempt of the country and countrymen .at farmer, n.2
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: T‘o give a flash’ means to show money .at flash, v.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To give a front’ means to look well with no money in your pockets.at give a front (v.) under front, n.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘The genial’ [is] a professional appreciator, a man who laughs at everything, pays for nothing and is universally sympathetic.at genial, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To give up’ and to ‘blow in’ mean to spend money .at give up, v.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘Chasing the can,’ ‘rolling the rock’ and ‘working the growler’ all mean sending the tin can down to the corner bar-room for beer.at rush the growler (v.) under growler, n.3
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘A man with his hand out’ is a beggar, and to ‘have your hand out’ means to beg .at have one’s hand out (v.) under hand, n.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘The genial’ [is] a professional appreciator, a man who laughs at everything, pays for nothing and is universally sympathetic. ‘he hand-shaker’ [is] synonymous.at handshaker, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: To ‘stake’ and to ‘heel’ mean to lend .at heel, v.2
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘There are a great many terms for drink [...] ‘hops’ for beer.at hop, n.2
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To play horse with’ is to treat like a child.at play horse with (v.) under horse, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: [A] ‘jay’ [is] synonymous with farmer and ‘gilly’ .at jay, n.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘A mug’ is any kind of citizen. [...] It has a slightly contemptuous meaning .at mug, n.1
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘Not on your life’ and ‘not on your tintype’ are simply emphatic expressions which explain themselves.at not on your tintype, phr.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘To stand off’ is to charge or get anything on credit.at stand off, v.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘Good people’ is a universal expression applied alike to an individual and a company. It means a good fellow or a crowd of good fellows.at good people (n.) under people, n.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 3 Dec. 17/7: ‘In the push,’ is synonymous with ‘in the swim’.at in the push under push, n.
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