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Crimes in Southern Indiana choose

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[US] F. Bill ‘The Need’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [F]lashbacks [...] amped through his memory.
at amp, v.
[US] F. Bill ‘The Accident’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘Then I wake up [...] calling myself a sorry-ass prick’.
at sorry-ass, adj.
[US] F. Bill ‘Officer Down’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Who the hell did this crazy ass think he was, shooting a conservation officer.
at crazy-ass, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Beautiful Even in Death’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] He looked into Fenton’s tired baby blues.
at baby-blues (n.) under baby, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Hill Clan Cross’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Reached in and dug through the bundles of bills, all Benjamins.
at Ben Franklin, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Crimes in Southern Indiana’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] This [i.e. a criminal case] was big-time.
at big-time, adj.
[US] F. Bill ‘Coon Hunter’s Noir’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Mac hides out and binges a lot of booze.
at binge, v.1
[US] F. Bill ‘Coon Hunter’s Noir’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] They hunt and toss back brews.
at brew, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Amphetamine Twitch’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] The man blinked his bug-eyed whites awake.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] F. Bill ‘Rough Company’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘Ever time Cooley got to drinkin’ [...] he’d get some kinda yellow-jacket meanness in him. Wanna play chicken. I wasn’t scared’.
at play chicken (v.) under chicken, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Rough Company’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [A] color Polaroid with ‘Connie and Willie 1980’ chicken-scratched along the bottom.
at chicken scratch, n.1
[US] F. Bill ‘Hill Clan Cross’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘Ain’t you the whinest chickenshit I ever did hear’.
at chickenshit, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Crimes in Southern Indiana’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [H]e provided some of his clique’s extra muscle for Chancellor’s fights.
at click, n.2
[US] F. Bill ‘Cold, Hard Love’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [of a girl] ‘Carol was a coathanger whore [...] don’t wanna think about how many lives she ended ’fore they even took shape’.
at coathanger whore (n.) under coathanger, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Coon Hunter’s Noir’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘You ain’t gone cold turkey on the brew [...] have you, J.W.?’.
at cold turkey, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Coon Hunter’s Noir’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Marty [...] is Mauckport’s town marshal. Not a town clown or county mountie.
at county mountie (n.) under county, adj.
[US] F. Bill ‘Old Testament Wisdom’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] He and his clan of crankheads.
at crankhead (n.) under crank, n.2
[US] F. Bill ‘Hill Clan Cross’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘You two dick stains didn’t even check to see if they’s packin’ heat’.
at dickstain (n.) under dick, n.1
[US] F. Bill ‘Cold, Hard Love’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘Wanna drop a dime on the next fight?’.
at drop a dime (v.) under dime, n.
[US] F. Bill ‘Trespassing betwen Heaven and Hell’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] He called Everett a stupid-ass, dink-lovin’ jarhead.
at dink, n.2
[US] F. Bill ‘Cold, Hard Love’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘[W]e gotta make sure our ducks are lined. We’re talkin’ about takin’ a person’s life’.
at have all one’s ducks in a row (v.) under duck, n.1
[US] F. Bill ‘’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [H]er smile was misleading; her lips told him to eat shit.
at eat shit, v.
[US] F. Bill ‘Coon Hunter’s Noir’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Filch J.W.’s hound while he’s passed out drunk.
at filch, v.1
[US] F. Bill ‘Amphetamine Twitch’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] The only thing that felt real was firing the chemical and letting that jolt of electricity smoke his mind.
at fire up, v.
[US] F. Bill ‘Officer Down’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [H]is body snuggled with cold, his hearing flatlined.
at flatline, v.
[US] F. Bill ‘Amphetamine Twitch’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Alejandro pulled into the small town’s pay-by-the-week flop, slop, and drop motel.
at flop, slop and drop (n.) under flop, v.
[US] F. Bill ‘Old Testament Wisdom’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] He sounded link a drunk who had Frenched a running chain.
at French, v.
[US] F. Bill ‘Rabbit in the Lettuce Patch’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Pulled the small vial of liquid from his pocket. Some Georgia Home Boy.
at Georgia Home Boy (n.) under Georgia, adj.
[US] F. Bill ‘Hill Clan Cross’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] ‘We never gave the go for this deal’.
at give the go (v.) under go, n.1
[US] F. Bill ‘Penance of Scoot McCutchen’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Flipped burgers at greasy-spoon diners.
at greasy spoon, n.1
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