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Artofmanliness.com / 30 November, 2023

From Gumshoes to Gats: A Dictionary of Hard-Boiled Slang

I’m a big fan of hard-boiled detective novels. I highlighted my favorites in a previous article. The thing about hard-boiled detective novels is that the characters often use slang words that were in common use in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, but are no longer pa…

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