Hard Boiled Speak Flashcards
Money
Bacon, Cabbage, folding green, kale, lettuce, long green, Lincoln or a five spot ($5 bill) bread, dough, moolah, rhino, salad, suds
Know it all
Abercrombie
Cool
Aces
Swing music fan
Alligator, cat
No good
All wet
Telephone
Ameche, the blower, the horn
Woman
A broad, a dame, a dish, a doll, frail, a kitten, a muffin, a twist,
A baby
A glass of milk
Booze
Bath tub gin, rot gut, giggle juice, hooch, mule
Gun
Bean shooter, convincer, gat, a heater, a rod, a roscoe; packing heat, wearing iron
I was Broke
Beat , behind the grind
Prison
The big house, hoosegow
Blackmail
Bleed
Eyes
Blinkers, lamps, peepers, pies, shutters
Leave, exit
Blow, drift, am-scram, make tracks, scram, split, take a powder
Don’t get excited
Don’t blow your wig
What’s the talk on the street?
What’s the Booshwash ?
I can’t waste my time talking to you
I can’t waste time bumping gums
A mistake
Brodie
Henchmen
Bruno’s, Cronies, goons, hatchet men, torpedoes, trigger men
An advantage
A bulge
An attractive woman
A butter and egg fly, doll face, a dish, a hot mamma, a looker, a sweet mama, a sweet patootie, a tomato
The man with the money, a bank roll
Her butter and egg man
Police badge
A buzzer
