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Because the Night 214: He had been strung out from before their first meeting.at string (someone) out (v.) under string (along), v.
Because the Night 214: He had been strung out from before their first meeting. Because the Night 134: The woman [...] looked like a burned-out beach bunny. Her face was seamed from too much sun.at beach bunny (n.) under beach, n.
Because the Night 78: [H]e was thinking of a black vinyl Vietnam body bag he had won as a joke prize at a med school beer bust.at beer bust (n.) under beer, n.
Because the Night 163: Many recognized Bergen as a frequent heavy binger.at binge, v.1
Because the Night 83: ‘[A] stone snowbird, really whacked out’.at snow bird, n.2
Because the Night 195: [He] checked the expended film cylinder. Film to burn.at to burn (adv.) under burn, v.
Because the Night 155: Lloyd Hopkins, six foot one and a hundred and eighty pounds, began the series of mano a mano choose-off's.at choose (out), v.
Because the Night 246: ‘All the houses on this block have been crawled [...] Sometimes the guy steals, sometimes not’.at crawl, v.2
Because the Night 178: ‘I’m [i.e. a detective] going to cruise his old haunts and talk to people who knew him’.at cruise, v.
Because the Night 203: ‘No shit, Dick Tracy?’ ‘If I'm lyin', I'm flyin'. Talk, Hubert’.at Dick Tracy, n.
Because the Night 103: ‘Hot-dog cops like Hopkins give sensitive, safety-conscious policemen like me a bad name’.at hot dog, adj.1
Because the Night 179: ‘I hate to be a downer [...] but I just heard some bad news’.at downer, n.2
Because the Night 190: Lloyd waited, keeping a sustained eyeball fix on 4109.at eyeball, adj.
Because the Night 30: ‘[M]aybe two months ago, right before those A.B.C. cocksuckers filed on me. You a cop?’.at file on (v.) under file, v.1
Because the Night 84: ‘I have friends in the A.C.L.U. They'll fix your wagon for real, flatfoot’.at fix someone’s wagon (v.) under fix, v.1
Because the Night 245: ‘This bimbo's a doper, I can tell. What are you flying on, citizen?’.at fly, v.
Because the Night 212: Lloyd was leadfooting it northbound on the Harbor Freeway.at lead foot, v.
Because the Night 115: ‘You didn't ask him where he was going?’ ‘Fuck no. He's paid up’.at fuck no! (excl.) under fuck!, excl.
Because the Night 243: Herzog [...] ghosted my first published stories, then edited the ones I actually did write.at ghost, v.
Because the Night 203: ‘Fuck me around, and I hotfoot it up to Narco Division and glom a pound of reefer to add to the bag the I.A.D. bulls took off you’.at glom, v.
Because the Night 257: ‘You're a good shit, Hopkins. You know that?’ ‘Sometimes’.at good shit, n.2
Because the Night 60: ‘How did you grapevine this info, Dutch?’ ‘Through a friend on the feds’.at grapevine, n.1
Because the Night 106: ‘Last week this man killed three people with clean head shots worthy of a practiced marksman’.at headshot (n.) under head, n.
Because the Night 135: ‘[T]here's so many bars on this strip that you can’t go home and change every time you hop one’.at hop, v.1
Because the Night 232: The old jig [...] sells nifty hood ornaments for the price of a pint of jungle juice.at jungle juice, n.
Because the Night 212: The juice hounds inside the bar said it sounded like a tommy gun.at juice-head (n.) under juice, n.1
Because the Night 73: ‘For a K note and two grams of righteous blow you can call me anything short of Sambo’.at K, n.
Because the Night 30: [of liquor] Jackie D.'s [...] was almost deserted. [...]. The bartender slipped a napkin in front of him and explained why: ‘Twofers at First Avenue West. Every Tuesday night I get killed’.at kill, v.
Because the Night 232: Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe.at kipe, v.
Because the Night 60: ‘[Y]ou have to keep the lid on—let the employees only rip you off so much, that kind of thing’.at lid, n.
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