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[US] (con. 1971) M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 104: You’re going to fuck around, chintz nickels and dimes, you’re going to go—he’s going to go.
at chintz, v.
[US] M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 28: It was he who originated the classification of corrupt police officers as ‘meat eaters’ and ‘grass eaters’.
at grass-eater (n.) under grass, n.1
[US] M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 150: Phillips said he didn’t want to close any doors, so he gave them each a ‘hat’ (fifty dollars), in order to keep things open.
at hat, n.
[US] M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 59: Our new informant presented himself as being well plugged in to the gypsy hierarchy.
at plugged in, adj.
[US] (con. 1971) M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 98: RATNOFF: I’ll have, I’ll have all of it. I’m not going to Jap you for $3,500.
at jap, v.
[US] M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 28: It was he who originated the classification of corrupt police officers as ‘meat eaters’ and ‘grass eaters’.
at meat-eater (n.) under meat, n.
[US] M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 189: On the map, next to each division, was the amount of the ‘nut’ that Phillips had ascribed to that division—what each plainclothesman got each month as his share of the graft.
at nut, n.1
[US] (con. 1971) M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 95: ‘I don’t do it very often. When I get a case that’s good, I want to get paid.’.
at get paid (v.) under pay, v.
[US] (con. 1971) M.F. Armstrong They Wished They Were Honest 93: PHILLIPS: Here’s a pound, right? RATNOFF: A pound, that’s five hundred dollars.
at pound, n.3
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