From William H. Duhart’s The Deadly Pay-Off
- booster – dope addict
- booted – special person; notable
- bread – money
- cannon – a gunman; gun
- cheese eater – a squealer
- cooling it – hiding out
- crib – house
- crumb crushers – teeth
- Decoration Day – Memorial Day (a US holiday)
- dukes – fists
- Dutch lunch – an individual serving of assorted sliced cold meats and cheeses
- fly-cat – a weird person
- fly-guy – A very cool person or someone regarded as appealing in a sociable way; hip
- gandy dancer – itinerant laborer
- gangway – alley, hall
- geets – money
- greenies – dollars
- hooker – prostitute
- jasper – homosexual (woman)
- Jodie – a guy; man
- juice – liquor
- knowledge knot – head
- mackman – pimp
- penitentiary pork – jail bait
- queenie – homosexual (man)
- rancho – house
- running-buddy – friend
- short – a car (automobile); originally: street car
- simoleons – dollars
- slammer – jail
- slides – pockets
- swoop – leave
- torch – cigarette lighter
- tyro – novice
- wig, a wig – terrific, the greatest
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