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[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Why don’t you stop that, Teeny, and come across?’.
at come across, v.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘He’s all right,’ Mac said. ‘One of the boys.’ Then to Salmon: ‘The inspector is all right’.
at all right, adj.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Go ahead, ask him for it. You’ll get it—in the pig’s neck, you will’.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘He’s got a yellow girl—and ain’t she a beaut?’.
at beaut, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] [of a criminal scheme] Whoever thought of that one [...] it’s a beaut; you get rid of competition and you make a quarter of million.
at beaut, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I got to fix that bitch, Martin Lester’.
at bitch, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] [T]here was a raid on a house and the boys [i.e. the police] took the girls up into the rest-room before locking them in.
at boys, the, n.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Runs a speakeasy on Sidelle Street near Blake. One of the boys’.
at boys, the, n.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘They’ll [i.e. Jewish men] never break in a Jewish girl and they think it’s smart and funny to break in a Gentile girl’.
at break (someone) in (v.) under break, v.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] She [...] slapped my hand away. ‘Nix, busyhands,’ she said.
at busyhands (n.) under busy, adj.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I want an address; I got a number. It’s a private line.’ ‘And get the can tied to me? Nix’.
at tie the can to (v.) under can, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘And one chirp out of you, “Smirker,” and you make an appearance under your own name’.
at chirp, n.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘[H]e comes bangin’ on my door, tearin’ his hair and claimin’ it was crap’.
at crap, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I don’t know what you’re croaking about’.
at croak, v.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Cut it out and sit down’.
at cut that out! (excl.) under cut out, v.3
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Shut up, you lousy dopey,’ James said. ‘I’m a dopey! Why—you lousy—’.
at dopie, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘[Y]ou seldom get ‘a dose’ from a paid harlot, only from one who’s pleasure bent’.
at dose, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] The opening of the theatres and night-clubs and the return of the crooks, gamblers and whores kept me downtown.
at downtown, n.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘“Hizzoner” will be here. [...] All dressed up like a house on fire’.
at dressed up like a lighthouse (adj.) under dressed, adj.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘What you feedin’ me, Cap?’ ‘What the hell do you mean?’.
at feed, v.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Don’t let on I told you, or the finger’ll be on me in a minute’.
at finger, n.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Stein got his last night.’ ‘That baby was riding for a flop. How’d they hand it to him?’.
at flop, n.5
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust [ebook] ‘We found him [...] Boarding-house on Landis Street. He took the pipe’.
at take the gas route (v.) under gas, n.1
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘When I get as old as you...’ ‘Don’t get gay. I can go you time for time’.
at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘When I get as old as you...’ ‘Don’t get gay. I can go you time for time’.
at go, v.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘If they get hep, good night!’.
at goodnight, phr.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Stein got his last night.’ ‘That baby was riding for a flop. How’d they hand it to him?’.
at hand it out (v.) under hand, v.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘If they get hep, good night!’.
at get hep (v.) under hep, adj.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘“Hizzoner” will be here. [...] All dressed up like a house on fire’.
at Hizzoner, n.
[US] P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I don’t think there’s going to be a hell of a lot of holler about Stein.’.
at holler, n.
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