1997 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.
1997 G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] ‘I got a Dacey [speeding] ticket, and you bagged it for me,’ I said.at bag, v.
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] Two more new fresh decks of butts. Something to look forward to.at butt, n.1
1997 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.
1997 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.
1997 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.
1997 G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] Cripes, I sound like such a phony there.at cripes!, excl.
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 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
1997 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
1997 G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [S]he offers, suck off an undercover cop, and gets herself arrested.at suck off, v.
1997 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.
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [of a law firm] ‘Sam Evans from our shop represented Dan’.at shop, n.1
1997 G.V. Higgins Change of Gravity [ebook] [H]er signature song a slow, torchy arrangement of ‘You Belong to Me’ .at torchy, adj.