Excerpts from AMERICAN TRAMP & UNDERWORLD SLANG by Godfrey Irwin Bale of Straw: a blonde woman Balloon Juice: idle talk Barber: to talk Biddies: eggs Blinky: one with poor eyesight Bone orchard: graveyard Cover with the moon: to sleep in the open Cupid's itch: any venereal disease Gams: a girl's legs Glass Jaw: a coward Gonger: an opium pipe Googs: spectacles Grease the track: to jump in font of a train Hooch: liquor Hot squat: the electric chair Jazz: sexual intercourse Kick it apart: to lay out the details Making the riffle: succeeding Oscar: to walk away Picture frame: the gallows Pie in the sky: One's reward in the hereafter Pimp stick: a cigarette Possum belly: to ride on top of a passenger train Pound the ear: to sleep Punk and gut: bread and cheese Put the boots to: to have sexual intercourse Red cross: morphine Red Lead: Ketchup Scrape the mug: to shave Shackles: soup Submarines: doughnuts Tamp up: to assault or beat Tape: the tongue Toadskins: paper money Tomato can stiff: one of the lowest bum V: five dollars Vic: convict White cross: cocaine Zook: a worn-out prostitute