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[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 147: ‘I thought we might be-bop around L.A. and check out urban romanticism’.
at bebop, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 179: [in fig. use] ‘You'll get him, Sarge. You'll give him the big one where it hurts the most’.
at big one, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 146: ‘The note said, “Amster's Hamsters bite the big weenie!”’.
at bite the big one (v.) under big one, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 101: ‘Bloody Mary. I could only get together with her for two weeks outta the month, her period lasted so long’.
at bloody mary (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 235: The speed had boomeranged and had combined with his nervous tension to knock him out.
at boomerang, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 183: I.A.D. is filled with born-agains, and the Chief himself wants a crackdown on officers shacking up, fucking whores, chasing pussy.
at born again (n.) under born, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 76: ‘I couldn't do a dime up there [i.e. 10 years in a prison]. They got niggers up there who’d eat me for breakfast’.
at have someone for breakfast (v.) under breakfast, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 196: ‘I don’t take it up the ass, I give it up the ass. I been rippin’ off butthole since high school’.
at butthole (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 119: The young man walked over [...] ‘It's thirty; head only, pitch or catch’.
at catch, v.3
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 219: Lloyd chased three Benzedrine tablets with sink water.
at chase, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 195: ‘You carry dime bags for your johns and you'll clean up’.
at clean up, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon [ebook] It was a highfinned, chopped and lowered 1947 Cadillac, what Crazy Tom would have called a ‘Coon-Mobile’.
at coonmobile (n.) under coon, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 76: ‘Richard, you're looking at a dime minimum this time. Ten bullets. You think you can handle that?’.
at dime, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 224: Verplanck printed those poems attacking the Bird and me. People started giving us the fisheye in the quad.
at give someone the fish-eye (v.) under fish-eye, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 221: ‘I employed Lawrence Craigie as my vice finger man [...] He is a good snitch’.
at finger man, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 74: ‘I say fuck your mother.’ ‘A predictable response. Can't you guys come up with something original like 'Fuck your father'?’ ‘Fuck you, flatfoot’.
at go fuck your mother! (excl.) under fuck, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 224: [H]e was afraid to hit up on McCarthy and she didn't even know he had the hots for her.
at hit up, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 223: ‘[H]e had this weird kind of juice, like he could read your mind’.
at juice, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 158: ‘You are the king fucking dick of Boy's Town because [...] I shoot you the dope and the protection that make you and your punk pals a class act’.
at king, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 200: ‘We've run a make on him. All we got was unpaid traffic warrants’.
at make, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 196: ‘I don’t take it up the ass, I give it up the ass. I been rippin’ off butthole since high school’.
at rip off, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 119: The young man walked over [...] ‘It's thirty; head only, pitch or catch’.
at pitch, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 75: ‘I saved his ass from getting porked by every nigger on the yard!’.
at pork, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 17: Liquor stores, night clubs, process parlors and storefront churches interspersed with vacant lots.
at process, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 49: [A]ll the excited psychobabble that was floating through the room.
at psychobabble, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 85: [T]he knight started to shake like he always did after he fired his gun [...] What if his shots rendered the asshole for good?
at render, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 84: [H]e was dealing uppers and Percodan—I heard his customers comment on the righteous quality of his stuff.
at righteous, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 22: ‘I wants to die! [...] I gots to make the scene on de other side!’.
at make the scene (v.) under scene, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 108: ‘I hire these wetbacks from the slave market on Skid Row’.
at slave market (n.) under slave, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 223: ‘He wasn't a sosh and he wasn't an athlete and he wasn't a bad ass’.
at soc, n.
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