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Life and Death of a Tough Guy choose

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[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [D]runk as a coot, he skipped up and down Eighth Avenue.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] He’d bucked The Office. His life wasn’t worth a lead cent.
at not worth a cent, phr.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘You’re aces high with everybody so don’t spoil it’.
at ace-high, adj.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [T]here was no song and dance as sweet as the one with a mother in it.
at song and dance, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [A] room full of faces half of whom they didn’t know from a hole in the ground,.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘These hick whores must be like pickin’ daisies,’ Georgie grinned. ‘You think so?’ ‘Yeh, not like that wisepott Annabelle’.
at wise-ass, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘Quinn and his fat-ass politicians fixed up Clip with a fake wife and four kids’.
at fat-ass, adj.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘Fight back!’ Dineen was shouting at Joey, backslapping at Georgie to keep the blackhaired batter away.
at batter (n.) under bat, v.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘How about usin’ the old bean? [...] The guy who’s tough ain’t in the same class as the guy who’s tough and smart’.
at bean, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [W]hat a dumbbell! [...] full to the ears with all the junk they taught in the schools.
at dumb-bell, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] She could be a blondie or a blackhair wop and I’d want her.
at blondie, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘I’m blowin’ out of town tomorrer’.
at blow, v.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [I]f someone, some bluenose, had cried, ‘Down with Drinking!’ the crowds, even the drunks, would have agreed with equal moral fervor.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] Clip was drinking boilermakers, a shot of rye washed down with a beer.
at boilermaker (n.) under boiler, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] The girls in the bedroom had heard other riproaring boozehounds before.
at booze-hound (n.) under booze, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] Christ, that’s all he needed—the old razz about jewboys falling for jewgirls.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [A]ll his life he’d been asking the Spotter for one damn break after another.
at break, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [T]he Badgers had nicknamed him Bughead because he’d go bugs one drunk out of three.
at bughead (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [H]e’d go bugs one drunk out of three and start wrecking things.
at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] The latest of the Spotter’s bullet boys.
at bullet boy (n.) under bullet, v.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [He] had never gotten used to hearing what he called ‘gangsters and bummers’ joking with his sixteen-year-old daughter.
at bummer, n.3
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] You’re an ugly monk / Whiskey is the bunk.
at bunk, n.2
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘Joey, you lay Butso—’ To lay Butso meant to watch out for a cop, for danger.
at lay butso (v.) under butt, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] A girl was either a whore or she was up on a pedestal a million miles high, wearing a snowcloud for a coat and burglar-proof locks at her buttonholes.
at buttonhole, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] They cabbed over to the Hotel Berkeley.
at cab, v.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] Legs Diamond dead, Waxey Gordon in the can, with only Dutch Schultz still raising a stink.
at can, n.1
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] There’d been Jack Legs Diamond and Waxey Gordon also, but those two guys’d been taken care of with the help of Dewey, the racket buster.
at take care of, v.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] Punks and bootleggers and tinhorn gamblers—all had their two cents to say.
at two cents’ worth, n.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] Joey noticed the bull slipping in on them through the crowd of men. ‘Cheese it!’ he hissed in warning.
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] You’re a stinkin’ drunk You’re a cheesy junk.
at cheesy, adj.2
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