Maines, George H. creator Grant, Bruce text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Wise-crack dictionary by George H. Maines and Bruce Grant is a slang dictionary compiled in the early 20th century. It gathers American vernacular and wisecracks from everyday life, drawing especially on the Jazz Age’s diverse subcultures. The likely topic is a lively survey of colloquial expressions—humorous, streetwise, and often profession- or scene-specific—intended to help readers understand current talk. The book presents an A–Z compendium of more than a thousand slang terms and punchy phrases, each followed by a brief, often jokey definition. It ranges across circus and stage patter, hobo and criminal argot, flapper and Broadway lingo, cowboy talk, and the chatter of gamblers, bootleggers, and city dwellers. Entries capture Prohibition-era habits (drinks, speakeasies), new technologies (radio, aviation, automobiles), social life (dating, dancing, fashion), money and the underworld (grifts, cops, jail), and everyday ribbing and repartee. A short foreword explains the sources (notably a newspaper prize contest) and the book’s aim to record living American speech; the tone throughout is brisk, humorous, and occasionally rough, reflecting its time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-11-30 Carla Foust, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: New York: The Spot News Service Publishing Company, 1926 English language -- United States -- Slang Americanisms -- Dictionaries PE New York: The Spot News Service Publishing Company, 1926 https://archive.org/details/wise-crack-dictionary/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77369 https://archive.org/details/wise-crack-dictionary/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77369 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134807.0 77369