Chapter D: =Douse the glim=--Put out the light

=Dig a hole and pull it in after you=--Leave and don’t come back

=Dropping one’s roof=--Losing one’s hat

=Draw one at twilight=--Put a little milk in the coffee

=Doughnut with the cramps=--A cruller

=Dead but won’t lay down=--Unintelligent

=Do a Weston=--Take a long and quick walk

=Duck one’s fire extinguisher=--Get away from one’s chaperone

=Don’t be an Airdale=--Rebuke for fickleness

=Dish out the dirt=--Tell the latest scandal

=Doormat=--A coward

=Drag your freight=--Hurry up

=Decorate the mahagony=--Lay the money on the bar

=Danger signal=--Pistol permit

=Do a Steve Brodie=--Take a chance

=Dissolve your solder=--Act as if you knew something

=Double up on coffin nails=--Give one’s companion a cigarette, too

=Dead from the dandruff down=--Exceedingly dumb

=Drug store cowboy=--Fellow who spends nothing but time

=Date up with one’s Lizzie=--Engage to take Lady for an automobile
ride

=Dutch treat=--The way two girls take each other to lunch

=Draw one in the dark=--Draw a cup of black coffee

=Door bell polisher=--Hall petter

=Drug store=--Painted blonde

=Don’t be a hero=--Don’t show off

=Down in front=--Pull down your dress

=Don’t mean maybe=--When one don’t

=Ducat=--Ticket

=Dicer=--Hat

=Dispepsia=--Marriage disagreement

=Dash of heat=--Light for cigarette

=Draw some rabbit tracks=--Write a letter

=Dropped the curtains=--Put on long trousers

=Do a flat=--Be so tired as to sleep without turning over

=Dip=--Pickpocket

=Duke me=--Hand it to me

=Deuce=--Two dollar bill

=Deemer=--Dime

=Don’t be a brace and bit=--You bore me

=Double saw=--Twenty dollar bill

=Declaration of Independence=--Divorce

=Dental mechanic from Queens=--Brooklyn bridge worker

=Ditched=--Hobo term for being thrown off a train

=Deck=--When a hobo rides on top of a train

E

=Exercise your nostrils=--Invitation to take the air

=Elephant’s tusk=--Hard customer

=Evening sticks=--Night clubs

=Eleven bottles=--Term among professional men for a good case

=Eye-opener=--Short dress

=Ear-bender=--Fast talker

=Elbow man=--One who nudges the sucker out after he’s trimmed

=Easter Egg=--Painted and hard boiled flapper

F

=Fools’ Paradise=--Marriage

=Full of static=--Not worth listening to

=Fits like a drink of water=--Just the right size

=Press the flesh=--Shake hands

=Fiddler’s monkey=--A roaming person

=Free Ride=--Social trip with the police

=French pastry inhaler=--Cake-eater

=Feel like a cent waiting for change=--Feel embarrassment

=Feather your nest=--Go to bed

=Freezing the tongue and giving the teeth a sleigh ride=--Keeping
still

=Fan yourself=--Calm down

=Flying omelet=--Yellow taxicab

=Fag me=--Give me a cigarette

=Fadeout=--Vanish

=Flannel kid=--Child who shrinks from washing

=Fixer=--Man who handles the officials in order to conduct any unfair
game or business

=Fly paper=--A fellow who sticks around to catch something

=Fly a Kite=--Meaning just that--but out of the presence of the
suggester

=Fin=--Five dollar bill

=Flat joint=--Unbeatable game

=Face on the wall=--Clock

=Funeral march=--Youth who is lost on the dance floor and doesn’t know
it

=Flat-tire=--Girl never to be taken to a blow-out

=Frogskin=--Dollar bill

=Fried chicken=--Married flapper

G

=Gate Slammer=--Person who begs meals at back door

=Galloping dominoes=--Frollicking dice

=Give your tongue a holiday=--Stop talking

=Getting spliced=--Getting married

=Gun-toter=--User of a hypodermic needle

=Give a tumble=--Introduce

=Guy knows his onions=--Knows his strongest points

=Grand=--Thousand dollars

=Goofy=--Crazy

=Going to a fire=--In a hurry

=Go by Shank’s mare=--Walk

=Good head for the lumber business=--Blockhead

=Go cook a radish=--Don’t be a bore

=Gold digger=--Female prospector on Broadway

=Getting the wrong number=--Date with an ugly telephone operator

=Gummy=--Man without teeth

=Globe Circler=--A goldfish

=Gunner=--Girl out for conquest

=Give us a crawl=--May I have the pleasure of the next dance

=Good case but bum lawyer=--Intentions are good but outcome doubtful

=Gimmick=--Device used for making a fair game crooked

=Go by shoe leather express=--To walk

=Grift=--Thievery

=Gang Plank=--Old man who lets his family walk over him

=Glims=--Pair of spectacles

=Gin-healer=--Nice young woman who conceals her gin in her stocking

=Gold in them hills=--Easy customer

=Gaff=--Any system used for cheating

=Gin-blossom=--Flapper who likes to bloom now and then

=Grease my mitt=--Give me some graft money

=Gadget=--A trick

=Gay cat=--Tramp who never works

=Gun between the sheets for a traitor=--Ham sandwich for Sammy
Moskowitz

=Good soldier=--Girl who can face powder

=Got money in the bank=--When one talks to oneself

=Graft=--Hobo lingo for occupation or job

=Glom=--Steal in hobo language

=Go back in the oven you’re half-baked=--You don’t act sanely

H

=He’s got fish hooks in his pockets=--He’s very stingy

=Hot in the socks=--Full of energy and pep

=High shot=--Rich fellow

=Hooking up to a battery and blowing a fuse=--Telling a lie

=Hope to kiss a cock-eyed pig if I don’t=--Affectionate determination

=Hand him the jug=--Put him in jail

=Handy as a crutch=--Able to do--nothing

=Have a drag=--Have influence

=Hiding behind the bushes=--Lacking a shave

=Hang crape on the head=--Mourn for the brain

=Hold your horses=--Rein in yourself

=Half pint=--Stunted individual

=Hit the hay=--retire

=H. T. M. Girl=--Hates to miss--anything

=Hen’s teeth=--Superlatively fine

=Hot socks=--Uncontrollable Charleston feet

=Hot puppies in a haystack=--Frankfurters and sauerkraut

=Have a seat, Lady=--Something not said in subways

=Heebie-jeebies=--Alcoholic shimmy

=Heavy sugar papa=--Sweet old man with fat purse

=Hit the deck=--Get out of bed

=He’s a sketch=--He’s comical

=Hope to smoke a herring=--Certain

=He’s a tin type=--He’s old fashioned

=Hype=--To overcharge. As, “That place has a hype on this week.”

=Home run=--Married man

=Hire a hall=--Tell it to a woman

=Herring slinger=--The man in a white apron at a restaurant

=Hey Rube!=--Signal for fight on circus lot

=Holy picture=--Man who needs a shave

=Horse and buggy=--Young lady out of date--with long hair

=Her name is radio=--She’s easily picked up

=Hashslinger=--Mystery man in a restaurant

=Horizontal refreshment=--Sleep

=Hike=--When a hobo has to walk

=He has more coats than an onion=--He’s full of apologies

=He’s a bar fly=--He sips all the free drinks he can

=His old man’s a baker=--Got lots of dough

=How strong are you?=--That is, your pocketbook

=Head keeper=--Father of a large family

=Hold that lion!=--Confession of paralyzing fear

=How do you get that way?=--Implying proved lunacy

=Hot ziggetty dog=--Expressing unlimited admiration