Chapter V: =Vaccinated with a Victrola needle=--Prone to talk frequently

=Veterinary expert=--One who follows the horses

W

=White elephant=--Fellow who buys a girl a soda and squeezes it out of
her afterward

=Waxed floor hound=--Young man fond of dancing

=Wild wave jockey=--Three-mile bootlegger

=Whispering soprano=--Gossip

=Woman’s crowning glory=--Rolling pin

=Wrinkle=--A flapper’s mother

=Write it on the ice=--Let it melt away

=Well-heeled=--Has plenty of money

=Wooden Kimona=--Case for cold storage

=Warm weather morals=--Permits loving to keep warm

=Wash out on the line=--Train of thought held up

=Wet the whistle=--Take a drink

=Wet sock=--Old fashioned

=Wet blanket=--Person who dampens the ardor of the party

=Wearing a high hat=--Acting like one of the 400

=Wooden nickels=--Suggestions for wooden heads

=Wring out the dish rag=--An order of soup

=Water on the brain which froze=--Everything slips his mind

=When the ghost walks=--Referring to days when the Eagle screams

=White line=--Hobo term for alcohol

=Wield a wicked lamp=--Have a naughty eye

=Weekly stipend=--Husband

=Will you take a chance?=--Will you take a drink?

=War bag=--Cowboy’s sack for clothes

=Wide open spaces=--Collegiate pants

=Worry like glue=--Stick around

=Wash=--Wind thrown back from an airplane propeller

=Water Lily=--A young girl with water in her cranium

Y

=Your ears don’t lap over=--You heard me

=Yanks are coming=--Dentist reaching for his extractor

=You must be twins=--Polite way of saying one couldn’t be so dumb

=Your old man must have been a furniture maker=--Delicate way of
complimenting a young woman on a
well-turned leg

=Yard of pork=--Three pig’s feet

=Yowl box=--Radio

=Yard=--One hundred dollars

=Your baby’s a scream=--Meaning it does

=You’d be surprised=--Admitting entire satisfaction with results

Z

=Zigzag in the steeple=--Demented

=Zoo=--A saxophone

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Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Hyphenization was standardized.

Entries under the wrong letter were moved to the last entry under the appropriate letter.

Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:

Page 6: “adapt at giving black eye” “adept at giving black eye”
Page 8: “Fyling omelet” “Flying omelet”
Page 8: “by shank’s Mare” “by Shank’s mare”
Page 9: “got Fish hooks in” “got fish hooks in”
Page 14: “Turn over the nickle” “Turn over the nickel”
Page 15: “A golddigger” “A gold digger”
Page 16: “A saxaphone” “A saxophone”