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The Hoodlums choose

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[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 61: Four hundred ten times, a phony Alexander had passed over the counter.
at Alexander (Hamilton), n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 38: [used of Sterno, a form of denatured alcohol] [H]uddled together to squeeze the alky from the Sterno cans.
at alky, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 7: The world was a house of angles. You had to grab one in your teeth, hang on, ride it out.
at angle, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 65: ‘I’ll kiss your butt in Wieboldt’s window if you leave before midnight’.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 100: ‘I’m down in this hole of the world for a week’.
at arsehole of the universe (n.) under arsehole, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 33: ‘I watched you two on the dance [...] That doll could put a piece of chalk in her back porch, spell Mississippi and dot all the I’s’.
at back-porch (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 11: Doyle even in the ragbag clothes had a sort of pristine chasteness.
at rag bag, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 111: Phony as the baldheaded row in the conventions away from home.
at bald-headed row (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 40: Gump was barreled. He didn’t look it while he was sitting down; but now when he was standing, his figure wavered like the rest.
at barrel, v.1
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 90: Clothes, liquor, cigars, dinners, belted the hell out of his small pile.
at belt, v.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 16: ‘Jeannie’s in the big leagues. She hasn’t dated anyone from the neighborhood’.
at big league, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 11: ‘I got it, big shot,’ Jake said, patting his change pocket in his suit.
at big shot, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 36: Martin was a sucker for a feint to the stomach and a looping hook, maybe a bolo punch.
at bolo, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 36: Chicago with its [...] bars, stripjoints, dance halls, bookies and honky-tonks.
at bookie, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 20: [B]ottled to death in a dismal passageway.
at bottle, v.1
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 118: ‘My friend goes bowwow on these’ [i.e. marijuana cigarettes].
at go bowwow (v.) under bow-wow, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 80: ‘I saw Martin today in a breezy car’.
at breezy, adj.1
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 57: [of counterfeit notes] We play it smart, pass a bundle and leave town.
at bundle, n.1
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 45: Martin was a bunk-artist from the word go, he thought.
at bunk artist (n.) under bunk, n.2
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 47: ‘This is no California bankroll. Two tens around a lemon’.
at California bankroll (n.) under California, adj.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 7: Why was he flat on his can? Without money, without a car, barely able to scrape four dollars for the meeting with Jeannie today.
at flat on one’s can (adj.) under can, n.1
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 38: Big Gump’s Sterno gang [...] the canned heaters, as they were called.
at canned heat, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 105: [used of the unclothed female genitals] Smiling, wetting her lips. Always turning in time. Never the hole card.
at hole card, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 45: ‘A little gift from my honey, for taking care of her. If you know what I mean’ [ibid.] 99: Remember this kid is taking care of me. Like I’ve never been taken care of before. What she didn’t know in the bedroom wasn’t necessary.
at take care of, v.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 57: ‘I get gum, then cigars, then pipe tobacco. [...] Then more cigs, different brand’.
at cig, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 58: Martin had the danger. The Treasury men always clamped at the pickup.
at clamp, v.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 71: [S]he only took one dollar from the extended three he had in his hand. No clip joint.
at clip-joint, n.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 87: Kirk eased the rented Ford through the traffic [...] Kirk wondered. What happens to me when I conk out.
at conk (out), v.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 25: [H]e pulled the lone one-dollar bill from his pocket. Christ, he thought, Big Gump and I better connect tonight.
at connect, v.
[US] ‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 17: ‘How about a tall cool one’.
at cool one (n.) under cool, adj.
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