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[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 51: ‘I know two Chicano dudes, brothers, who're looking for work. Smart—one righteous vato, one tagalong’.
at tag-a-long, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 8: Jesus shriekers and mind-blown acidhead mystics awaiting lunacy hearings.
at acid-head (n.) under acid, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 62: ‘We’ve got two on-the-sly romances going down [...] Hawley from the B. of A. and his bitch Issler; Eggers from Security Pacific and his babe Confrey’.
at babe, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 11: The judge [...] hit him with five years in the California Youth Authority Facility at Soledad—the ‘Baby Joint’ and ‘Gladiator School.’.
at Baby Joint (n.) under baby, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 99: ‘It's your ball game, G-man’.
at ballgame, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 243: While Anne bebopped into the scene, he hung back.
at bebop, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 137: My only vice is brew. [...] I am a righteous beerhound motherfucker’.
at beerhound (n.) under beer, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 119: ‘Shit! Let's lean on Eggers.’ ‘You're a black-glove cop, Hopkins. I'm not’ [ibid.] 245: ‘My partner's a black glove cop, but I keep him on a short chain’.
at black-glove (adj.) under black, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 245: The TV blipped to another beer ad.
at blip (off), v.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 140: ‘[A] bootleg message service.’ ‘What's that?’ ‘A two-way answering service. Mostly it's used by parole absconders and their families’.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 30: He swung the car out into the stream of traffic [...] doing a deft brody that set off a chain of honks from cut-off motorists.
at brodie, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 66: ‘[A] psychiatrist's report that states, essentially, that he's a burnout’.
at burnout, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 97: If we don't bust this thing [a bank robbery] in a week or so, I'll plant a man in the bank.
at bust, v.1
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 231: [H]e assaulted two prisoners who spoke jokingly of Joe as ‘prime butthole’.
at butthole (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 138: ‘Why haven’t you asked me about him?’ ‘Because [...] I don’t care if he stays, lays, prays or strays’.
at not care whether someone stays, lays, prays, or strays, phr.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 24: ‘I heard a dream score the other day, from this guy on the Folsom chain’ [ibid] 44: ‘A guy at the County. Big blond guy on the Quentin chain’.
at chain, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 13: And he had a chump change job at Midas Muffler.
at chump-change, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 90: [H]e grabbed a West L.A. local paper and a candy bar and tossed the chump [i.e. a sales clerk] a dollar bill.
at chump, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 237: ‘These are all fat city addresses’.
at fat city, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 250: [H]e [i.e. a robber on the run] kept wondering why the cop car had split, giving him a clean shot.
at clean shot (n.) under clean, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 170: [H]e had paid for most of his Stanford tuition by clouting Chevys.
at clout, v.2
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 139: ‘Be cool, homeboy’.
at be cool under cool, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 17‘: ‘What's a ding trusty do?’ [...] As [Officer] Gordon Meyers explained it, the job was simple. Sleep all day while the dings were dinged out on their ‘medication’[...] At night, [. . .] feed the dings their one meal per day.
at ding, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 8: Module 2700 off the Los Angeles Main County Jail is known as the Ding Tank. [. . .] [I]t is the facility for nonviolent prisoners too mentally disturbed to exist in the general inmate population.
at ding, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 240: The dispatch room was a bullet-wasted ruin [...] the plastic desk dinged and cracked from ricochets.
at ding, v.1
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 219: ‘Whores don't make love, whores do the dirty dog deed’.
at do the dirties (v.) under dirty, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 134: ‘The rape guy turned out not to be a rape-o, more like a psycho muff diver. He did this rebop about being a shark, then went down on Chrissy's bush’.
at muff-diver, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 8: [D]roolers, babblers, public masturbators, Jesus shriekers and mind-blown acidhead mystics awaiting lunacy hearings.
at drooler (n.) under drool, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 254: ‘If this joker Klein is eighty-six, how you gonna make him for the heists?’.
at eighty-six, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 97: ‘No eyeball witnesses at either crime scene?’ ‘Right’.
at eyeball witness (n.) under eyeball, n.2
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