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A Change of Gravity choose

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[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] And then they’ll go out and start bad-mouthin’ me. Make me look like shit, all over town.
at badmouth, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘I got a Dacey [speeding] ticket, and you bagged it for me,’ I said.
at bag, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘[S]ome guy he owes big takes a collar for asking a lady cop [...] if she’d like to give him a blow-job’.
at big, adv.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] The big boodle. That’s where the real revenge is. Not takin’ it with me, no, still can’t do that, but I can keep it away from them.
at boodle, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] When I go, what goes will be me. Me, pissin’ and moanin’ like always, not some dim bulb that finally burned out.
at dim bulb, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘We become bulletproof. Bulletproof even from them. In this job, we’re immortal’.
at bullet-proof (adj.) under bullet, n.2
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] Two more new fresh decks of butts. Something to look forward to.
at butt, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘[S]ome kind of a financial emergency. What you and I would call ‘strapped for cash’.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] Geoff [...] made no mistakes [and] ended up cleaning Sam’s clock for him.
at clean someone’s clock (v.) under clean, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ’[O]ver a hundred and twenty thousand dollars [...] That’s fairly serious money.’ ‘Cowabunga,’ she said. ‘On the salary a clerk makes?’.
at cowabunga!, excl.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] Cripes, I sound like such a phony there.
at cripes!, excl.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘[W]omen who hear every single cuss-word a man says, even if he says it under his breath, they never seem to be able to hear all the ones they use themselves’.
at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] He used a lot of profanity [...] Marie and the other wives’re dropping a few effs of their own every now and then.
at eff, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘Says he doesn’t want any redneck cop getting it into his head that his wife, the federal judge, fixes tickets for him’.
at fix, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘Less’n a year and he’s back in the gravy. Gets ten-to-twelve and does most of the ten’.
at in the gravy (adj.) under gravy, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘Told him either he hadda lay off a the grog, or go live by himself’.
at grog, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘[H]e doesn’t want havin’ you remember how he stuck it up your ass when some shit bird-civilian complained’.
at stick it up someone’s ass (v.) under stick it, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] The judge gave him five in the jar. He came out after he’d done three.
at jar, n.3
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘Not paying him kickbacks, anything like that just giving him lots of nice presents’.
at kickback, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [H]e’d end up going back inside again. If he ever gets lugged again and almost anything’d do it.
at lug, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [S]he offers, suck off an undercover cop, and gets herself arrested.
at suck off, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘[Y]our rabbi has to make that phone call, here, to get it straightened out’ .
at straighten out, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘What’d he do, set a new record for the pony-lope?’.
at pony-lope (n.) under pony, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] If her talk starts to distract, he just buys her another drink. And if one pop doesn’t quite do the job, another one after it will.
at pop, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘What if one of these bozos gets mad, what if he gets really mad? What if he goes to his rep, to my rabbi?’.
at rabbi, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] If they’d drug you enough — morphine, maybe some of that heroin [...] make you happy no matter how shitty you felt.
at shitty, adj.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [of a law firm] ‘Sam Evans from our shop represented Dan’.
at shop, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [H]er signature song a slow, torchy arrangement of ‘You Belong to Me’ .
at torchy, adj.
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