Part 2

=Rubbing it in=--Recalling poignant memories

=Remove the rubber band=--Spend the paper money

=Regular Humpty-Dumpty=--On the fence

=Red Mike and Violets=--Corn Beef and Cabbage

=Roll your hoop=--Keep moving

=Rum Hound=--Prohibition agent

=Remove one’s gloves=--Wash one’s hands

=Ritzy=--Highclass in a snobbish way

=Rubber dime=--Counterfeit money

=Raw egg=--One vulgar in his remarks

=Rubber doll=--One who stretches the truth

=Right off the bat=--First hand

=Racket=--The art of cheating

=Rag=--Tent in a circus

=Rumble=--A tip-off to the police

=Red one=--Big engagement where show company can make lots of money

=Razor back=--Roughneck or stake driver in a circus

=Round up=--Arrest of a hobo gang

=Rolls her own=--Pushes a baby carriage

=Rib roast=--Lecture from the wife

=Regular cut-up=--A surgeon

S

=Spook=--Mind reader

=Sand spider=--A bathing suit censor

=Stop the clock=--Take your time

=Snake’s Arm bands=--Very good and unusual

=Sky juice=--Water

=Step on it=--Hurry

=Swell dish=--Very beautiful girl

=Smell wood burning=--Realizing that someone is trying to think

=Shake a leg=--Hurry up

=Shove off=--Get out

=Social irrigation=--Little drink

=Shut your trap=--Close your mouth

=Sub Marine=--Marine on a subway

=Strut your stuff=--Show your best wares

=Stamp fighter=--An office boy

=Sling the institution=--Put down your book

=Say so=--Be positive of a fact

=Slip us five=--Request for a handshake

=Smack on the kisser=--Hit on the mouth

=Stow the gab=--Stop talking

=See you some Sunday during the week=--Never again

=Spill the beans=--Tell the secret

=Strike oil=--What every gold digger wants to do

=Swim the channel=--Get across over the footlights

=Sling the dope=--Tell all about it

=Sidewalk sailor=--Man who walks his girl to and from the show

=Sling a mean line=--Talk persuasively

=Sheika=--Sheik’s sweetie

=She likes to muscle=--hug

=Slip of the pen=--Runaway pig

=Steam roller=--Heavy spender

=Sea dust=--Salt

=Shoving the queer=--Passing counterfeit money

=She’s a high flyer=--Hang onto your pocketbook

=She knows her onions=--She knows how to avoid them

=Screen actor=--Mosquito

=Sidewalk surveyor=--Drunken man

=Speak United States=--Explain yourself

=Six o’clock straight=--Tall and slim person

=Sugar Daddy=--Girl’s lollipop for the evening

=Swell baseball team=--Nine on a side--mustache

=Smoking around the collar=--Getting angry

=Sardine bus=--New York subway

=Side-door Pullman=--Freight car

=Storm bound=--Going to call on a lady friend

=See me kid=--Apache to his midinette when the check comes around

=Shut off the waterworks=--Cease weeping

=Snow again, I didn’t get your drift=--Please repeat

=Sleeping time=--One year in Jail

=Stow your gab=--Stop talking

=So’s your Ol’ Antennae=--Expression to disconcert radio liars

=Storm and strife=--Female in matrimony

=Stringer=--Big touch on a victim

=Spread the salve=--Soft, conciliatory talk

=Sizzling Spitz=--Hot dog

=Soft peddle=--Request for less noise

=Small change=--Person of not such high standing

=Snap into it=--Wake up

=Straw pump=--One fond of sodas

=See you in church=--Later, but of course, not there

=Shut off the loud speaker=--Stop talking

=Sugar=--Money

=Slip the dincher=--Give one a half-smoked cigarette

=Strong joint=--Unfair or cheater’s game

=Squawk=--A tip-off to the police

=Slip=--Shot of dope

=Slum=--Phoney merchandise

=Scorf=--To eat

=Shill=--Come-on man in any skin game

=Sawbuck=--Ten dollar bill

=Shoo-flies=--Detectives in parlance of the road

=Sneakers=--Rubber-soled shoes

=Stick=--A confederate who wins or loses at dealer’s will

=Spring=--To be released from arrest

=Set joint=--Unbeatable game

=Soft=--Paper money

=Sail=--Lose all your money

=Second fiddler=--Fellow who sticks around with a spooning couple

=Sunkist lemon=--Beautiful but--

=Show a leg=--No need to be addressed to flappers--but means “get up”

=She rolls her own=--Because she will let no one else roll them for her

=Space to let=--A vacant stare

=Struggle buggy=--Flivver on installment plan

=Skating rink for flies=--Baldheaded man

=Stop rocking the boat=--Go get a divorce

=Slip us a kiss=--Can I have a piece of your candy?

=Stool-pigeon=--One who informs on pals to keep out of trouble himself

=Sit-down=--Hobo talk for meal

=Slipping something over=--Pulling on a sweater

=Swallow a battery=--Get a sparkle out of life

=She’s an angel=--He can borrow from her

=Stake=--Hobo’s wages--when he works

=Skinners=--Bell hops according to hobos

=Sun-fishing=--When a horse bucks, jumps sideways and turns about

=S. O. S.=--Same old story

=See you in the funny sheet=--A humorous way of saying goodbye

=Stop bending my ear=--Stop lying

=So’s your old man=--Impudent comeback

=Sit down, you’re rocking the boat=--Arbitrary closing of an argument

=Snap out of it=--Rebuke for self-pity

T

=Throw the bull=--Lend a nickel

=Talking through the hat=--Talking nonsense

=Throwing the oil=--Telling glibe falsehoods

=Take a tuck on your tongue=--Don’t talk so much

=Tell it to Sweeney=--Expression of doubt as to veracity

=Turn over the nickel and give the Indian a chance=--Leave the bull alone

=Throw a rock=--Request of newlywed husband for wife’s biscuit

=Thanks for the buggy ride=--You’re crazy

=Take it on the Lamm=--Run away

=Tin-type=--Old fashioned without having a beard

=Two shakes of a lamb’s tail=--Right away

=Tickled silly=--State of happiness

=Tickling the ivories=--Playing the piano; brushing the teeth

=Take the air=--Begone

=Tin Lizzie=--A girl sixteen who has never been kissed

=Tulip Gardner=--An experienced kisser

=Turn in=--Go to bed

=Take him over the jumps=--Believe everything he tells you

=Teeth in the law=--Bloodhounds

=Two cackles and a grunt=--Ham and eggs

=Take a flyer=--Take a chance

=Two babies in a cradle=--Two oysters on the half shell

=Traveling like a flea=--Gone to the dogs

=Take the glue off your shoes=--Stop hanging around here

=Toreador=--A good salesman

=Throw your optics on this=--Look at this

=Tomato receiver=--Singer

=Turn two pictures to the wall=--Fry two eggs over

=Take a sample=--Take a kiss

=Tear off a Rip Van Winkle=--Take a long sleep

=Tell your story walking=--Get out

=Tune off that station=--Change the conversation

=Take with a grain of salt=--Treat lightly and advisedly

=Tell the world=--Mean it

=Turn out=--Get up

=Tenement house disturber=--An accordion player

=Tell it to the Marines=--They heard it in France

=That’s the office!=--Signal for skin game artists to close up and move on because of approach of police

=Tears=--Onions

=The Gate=--Crook’s term for freedom

=The bird=--Ridicule in English

=Tax=--Five cents

=The Breaks=--When Lady Fortune is riding beside you

=Third rail=--Girl you can’t touch

=Tin cow=--Evaporated milk

=Two piece outfit=--Prisoner’s ball and chain

=Tell it to the Judge=--Choking off a sob story

=That’s out!=--Rendered non-existent

=Teacher’s pet=--Of course they do

=Top off a horse=--When they say “Ride ’im, cowboy.”

=Towel=--Dry agent

=Top=--Spinster

=Teddy tickle=--Short mustache

=This queen always follows the Jack=--A gold digger

=Take-off=--Hop-off of an airplane

U

=Useful as a Blacksmith in Detroit=--Ask Henry Ford

=Under new management=--Married

=Up the river=--To Sing Sing

V

=Vaccinated with a Victrola needle=--Prone to talk frequently

=Veterinary expert=--One who follows the horses

W

=White elephant=--Fellow who buys a girl a soda and squeezes it out of her afterward

=Waxed floor hound=--Young man fond of dancing

=Wild wave jockey=--Three-mile bootlegger

=Whispering soprano=--Gossip

=Woman’s crowning glory=--Rolling pin

=Wrinkle=--A flapper’s mother

=Write it on the ice=--Let it melt away

=Well-heeled=--Has plenty of money

=Wooden Kimona=--Case for cold storage

=Warm weather morals=--Permits loving to keep warm

=Wash out on the line=--Train of thought held up

=Wet the whistle=--Take a drink

=Wet sock=--Old fashioned

=Wet blanket=--Person who dampens the ardor of the party

=Wearing a high hat=--Acting like one of the 400

=Wooden nickels=--Suggestions for wooden heads

=Wring out the dish rag=--An order of soup

=Water on the brain which froze=--Everything slips his mind

=When the ghost walks=--Referring to days when the Eagle screams

=White line=--Hobo term for alcohol

=Wield a wicked lamp=--Have a naughty eye

=Weekly stipend=--Husband

=Will you take a chance?=--Will you take a drink?

=War bag=--Cowboy’s sack for clothes

=Wide open spaces=--Collegiate pants

=Worry like glue=--Stick around

=Wash=--Wind thrown back from an airplane propeller

=Water Lily=--A young girl with water in her cranium

Y

=Your ears don’t lap over=--You heard me

=Yanks are coming=--Dentist reaching for his extractor

=You must be twins=--Polite way of saying one couldn’t be so dumb

=Your old man must have been a furniture maker=--Delicate way of complimenting a young woman on a well-turned leg

=Yard of pork=--Three pig’s feet

=Yowl box=--Radio

=Yard=--One hundred dollars

=Your baby’s a scream=--Meaning it does

=You’d be surprised=--Admitting entire satisfaction with results

Z

=Zigzag in the steeple=--Demented

=Zoo=--A saxophone

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Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Hyphenization was standardized.

Entries under the wrong letter were moved to the last entry under the appropriate letter.

Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:

Page 6: “adapt at giving black eye” “adept at giving black eye” Page 8: “Fyling omelet” “Flying omelet” Page 8: “by shank’s Mare” “by Shank’s mare” Page 9: “got Fish hooks in” “got fish hooks in” Page 14: “Turn over the nickle” “Turn over the nickel” Page 15: “A golddigger” “A gold digger” Page 16: “A saxaphone” “A saxophone”