Excerpts from <br />
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AMERICAN TRAMP & UNDERWORLD SLANG<br />
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by Godfrey Irwin<br />
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Bale of Straw: a blonde woman<br />
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Balloon Juice: idle talk<br />
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Barber: to talk<br />
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Biddies: eggs<br />
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Blinky: one with poor eyesight<br />
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Bone orchard: graveyard<br />
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Cover with the moon: to sleep in the open <br />
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Cupid's itch: any venereal disease<br />
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Gams: a girl's legs<br />
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Glass Jaw: a coward<br />
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Gonger: an opium pipe<br />
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Googs: spectacles<br />
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Grease the track: to jump in font of a train<br />
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Hooch: liquor<br />
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Hot squat: the electric chair<br />
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Jazz: sexual intercourse<br />
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Kick it apart: to lay out the details<br />
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Making the riffle: succeeding<br />
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Oscar: to walk away<br />
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Picture frame: the gallows<br />
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Pie in the sky: One's reward in the hereafter<br />
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Pimp stick: a cigarette<br />
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Possum belly: to ride on top of a passenger train<br />
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Pound the ear: to sleep <br />
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Punk and gut: bread and cheese<br />
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Put the boots to: to have sexual intercourse<br />
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Red cross: morphine<br />
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Red Lead: Ketchup<br />
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Scrape the mug: to shave<br />
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Shackles: soup<br />
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Submarines: doughnuts<br />
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Tamp up: to assault or beat<br />
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Tape: the tongue<br />
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Toadskins: paper money<br />
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Tomato can stiff: one of the lowest bum<br />
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V: five dollars<br />
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Vic: convict<br />
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White cross: cocaine<br />
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Zook: a worn-out prostitute