FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler

Abe's cabe (jive)--a $5 bill

bean gun (World War II)--mobile kitchen

bullskate (Negro)--to brag

carry the difference (underworld)--to carry a gun

chalk player--horseplayer who bets favorites

crawk (radio)--animal imitator

dace--2-c-

dicty (Negro)--high-class, stylish

eight-rock (Negro)--a very black Negro

finif (Yiddish)-- $5

flogger (underworld; archaic)--overcoat

fly--alert, knowing

frisgig--silly girl

fuzz (underworld)--police

gate (swing)--good musician

geets--money

ginch--woman

grandma (truckers' talk)--low gear

hair bag--oldtimer who endlessly reminisces

hell-west-and-crooked--much askew

high hig--uppity girl

hinkty (Negro)--snobbish

house larry (clothing-store cant)--a customer who is not buying, just looking

hub cap (hot-rod jargon)--conceited type

kafooster--confusing talk

labonza--posterior

lay chickie (teen-age-gang talk)--to act as lookout

left-foot--a Protestant

long underwear (Jazz)--Sweet and corny music

luck out--to get killed

lug in--to run a horse closer and closer to the rail

make--to recognize

mayvin (Yiddish clothing-store cant)--a know-it-all customer

moke (Negro)--a Negro

moldy fig (jive)--a pedant

moll buzzer (underworld)--thief who preys on women

mop (Negro)--the final result

mulligrubs--the blues

nerf (hot-rod jargon)--to push with another car

nervous pudding--gelatin dessert

niff-naw (Scotch-Irish dialect)--argument

oontz (gambler's gab)--the game of craps; to crowd, push or force

pinochle season (garment-district slang)--the slack season

press the bricks (lumberjack language)--to loaf

quetch (from Yiddish)--to nag

ramstuginous--severe, wild, vicious

ready for Freddie (from comic strip Li'l Abner)--ready for anything

red-light (carnival)--to murder by throwing off a moving train

schmendrick (Yiddish)--a clumsy jerk

schlub, schloomp (Yiddish)--second-rate

scouse--beef stew without the beef

shovel, to be put to bed with a--to be so drunk one must be assisted home

skaty-eight--forty-'leven

skygodlin--slantwise

sneeze (underworld)--kidnap

snug (underworld)--small concealed gun

Spanish athlete--a bull thrower

strictly union (swing)--corny jazz

tapped out--broke

tinge--salesman of shoddy goods

tzuris (Yiddish)--chronic misfortune

viggerish--profit from an illegal deal

whinnick--to renege

yentz (from Yiddish)--to cheat

zagger (jewelry-store jargon)--cheap watch

zooly (rock 'n' roll)--excellent, satisfying

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