1986 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.
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 8: Jesus shriekers and mind-blown acidhead mystics awaiting lunacy hearings.at acid-head (n.) under acid, n.1
1986 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.
1986 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.
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 137: My only vice is brew. [...] I am a righteous beerhound motherfucker’.at beerhound (n.) under beer, n.
1986 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.
1986 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.
1986 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
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 66: ‘[A] psychiatrist's report that states, essentially, that he's a burnout’.at burnout, n.
1986 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
1986 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
1986 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.
1986 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.
1986 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.
1986 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.
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 170: [H]e had paid for most of his Stanford tuition by clouting Chevys.at clout, v.2
1986 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
1986 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
1986 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
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 219: ‘Whores don't make love, whores do the dirty dog deed’.at do the dirties (v.) under dirty, n.
1986 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.
1986 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.
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 254: ‘If this joker Klein is eighty-six, how you gonna make him for the heists?’.at eighty-six, adj.
1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 97: ‘No eyeball witnesses at either crime scene?’ ‘Right’.at eyeball witness (n.) under eyeball, n.2