Chapter M: =Model in a spaghetti factory=--A thin person

=Mouthpiece=--Legal adviser

=Mitt me=--Shake my hand

=Money flows like glue=--Sticks to the pockets

=Mug masher=--Prize fighter

=Massage the tonsils=--To eat

=Meal ticket=--Husband

=Moving for another trial=--Courting the second wife

=Map laundress=--Beauty shop proprietress

=Micro-gabbler=--Broadcasting scandalmonger

=Missionary work=--Dancing with wall-flowers

=Muzzle=--Kiss with no time off for air

=Misplaced eyebrow=--So-called mustache

=Mouth organ=--The tongue

=Mystery=--Hash

=Meg=--Any denomination of silver money between ten cents and one
dollar; signified by fifteen megs, twenty megs, etc.

=Mac=--Man who lives off the earnings of a woman

=Mollbuzzer=--Man who snatches a woman’s pocketbook

=Mark=--Sucker

=Mugglehead=--Smoker of Mexican loco weed

=Maple sugar=--A refined sap

=Monkey=--Chump

=Moll=--Woman

=Magazine=--Crook’s term for six months to a year in jail

=Matrimony=--A word or a sentence

=Main street judge=--Male appraiser on a windy corner

=Melt the iceberg=--Hold me a little tighter

=Monday furs=--Ermine bought on the installment plan

=Main stem=--Main line of a railroad according to hobos

=Maverich-=-Stolen calf in ranch terms

=Main squeeze=--Best girl

=Mad money=--Coin of a flapper who expects to have to walk back

=Make a noise like a trunk=--Express yourself

N

=Needle work=--Story of a drug addict

=New set of threads=--New suit of clothes

=No soap=--Can’t talk business

=Nothing cooking=--Nothing doing

=November sheik=--Turkey

=Nickel nurser=--One who has a passion for seeing that his nickels
don’t stray

=Nix=--Don’t

=Newspaper=--Crook’s term for thirty days in jail

=Nance=--Sissy

=Negroes in a snowstorm=--Raisins and Rice

O

=On the shelf=--Pawnshop

=Ostrich party=--Necking party

=Open the four of them=--Admonition to a person wearing glasses to pay
attention

=Onion=--One who tells sad stories that cause others to weep

=Office cat=--Office gossip

=One on the city=--A glass of water

=Out of the picture=--In the wrong company

=Oil burner=--Student

=One burning moment=--A spinster’s first kiss

=Order of flats=--Dish of wheat cakes

=One-way pockets=--Pockets of tightwad

=One-straw guy=--A fellow who never treats another to a soda

=Open as a safe=--A spy

=On tick=--On credit

=Oil can=--One who cannot grease the slides to popularity

=On the cuff=--Charge it

=Oh, you Kid!=--Corespondent

=One-half check=--Fifty cents

=One-half yard=--Fifty dollars

=One-half grand=--Five hundred dollars

=On the up-and-up=--Nearer heaven and squarer business

=On the arm=--Something for nothing in show business

=Old pump=--Heart

=Outlaw=--Runaway horse

P

=Pop ’em up=--Set up the drinks

=Pick up the marbles=--You win, you are right

=Pulling a boner=--Doing the wrong thing

=Paper moocher=--One who reads newspapers picked up on cars, subways,
etc.

=Put in the know=--Enlighten, make clear

=Put out the lamp=--Soak in the eye

=Paint the Hicks=--Show a little life in a small town

=Pickled=--Drunk

=Pumphouse=--Insane asylum

=Pie face=--One with a lot of crust

=Possum belly=--Tent stake box carried under circus railroad cars

=Pavey=--Man who peddles goods on the sidewalk

=Put the finger on him=--Arrest him

=Put that in your pipe and smoke it=--Your brand doesn’t suit me

=Pipe the rock=--See the diamond

=Pre-Volstead=--Drunk

=Putting away his ice=--Pawning his diamond

=Punk=--Child in show business

=Poke=--Pocketbook

=Plaster=--Attachment on a show

=Paper-hanger’s daughter=--Wall-flower

=Punk=--Bread

=Pass my disposition=--Sugar, of course

=Padlocked mama=--Married woman

=Plumb line your rags=--Get your pants pressed

=Popular as DeRussey’s Lane=--Lots of crabapple sweeties

=Pianola=--Young lady who only plays when there’s a roll in sight

=Pair of tights=--Two drunks

=Pipe the lid=--Look at the hat

=Pass out of the picture=--In no state for another drink

=Pie wagon=--Patrol wagon

=Put an egg in your shoe and beat it=--Run along

=Park your dogs awhile=--Rest your feet

=Put and take=--Put on your hat and take a walk

=Pig’s hips and cackle-berries=--Ham and eggs

=Punching the bag=--Incessant talking

=Plus four guy=--Golf player

=Pass the lumber=--Pass the toothpicks

=Part his hair=--Club him on the head

=Pencil-pusher=--Office employee

=Parlor athlete=--A frequent caller at young ladies’ homes

=Put out a stop signal=--Detain a Marathon talker

=Pig and Whistle=--Pork and beans

=Passing the buck=--Shifting the blame for responsibility

=Pig in a blanket=--Sausage in a roll

=Put on a new record=--Change the subject

=Pipe down=--Shut up

=Put on the feed bag=--Sit down to the table

=Put into circulation again=--Stop going out with him

=Parlor duty=--Staying home and petting

=Pin feather=--Young girl under sixteen

=Perpendicular your outline=--Reduce a little

=Paw Paw Indian=--Petter

=Pick and banjo=--Pick and shovel to a hobo

Q

=Qute=--Twenty-five cents

R

=Ring a doorbell=--Request to say something

=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