1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 130: ‘You’ve been out here all afternoon?’ ‘Fuckin’ aye,’ he said.at fucking A!, excl.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 62: ‘[T]hat’s not why they aced him.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘He was a gonif. They caught with his hand in the fuckin’ cookie jar’.at ace, v.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 18: We bring ‘em through the door, pass a few out, lose our asses—we’ll make it up on add-ons’.at lose one’s ass under ass, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 3: I was thirty years old, and had drunk several beers backed with bourbon the night before.at back, n.1
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 18: ‘Tell the fellas not to match that price, hear? If we have to take a bath, we can wait till Black Friday’.at take a bath (v.) under bath, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 19: That bitch Fein called [...] ‘Said we’ve got to stop using the word sale in the head of our ads if we’re not lowering our everyday prices.’ ‘So I’ll call this next ad a blowout.’ ‘Perfect’.at blow-out, n.1
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 63: ‘What did he steal?’ ‘A third world briefcase, what else? [. . . .] He lost his job for a boogie box’.at boogie box (n.) under boogie, v.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 75: ‘As for the blacks, we send them a message every so often to remind them that we live here too. Fuckin’ bootheads act like they own this town’.at boothead (n.) under boot, n.2
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 70: The bartender [...] pulled my tab from between two rum bottles on the call rack.at call, n.2
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 83: Jerry Chase [...] dragged on her cigarette. The cherry from the last one was still smoking in the ashtray.at cherry, n.1
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 1: A poster of the mayor, a smiling portrait in debauchery, was taped to the window [...] The coke sweat had been dutifully airbrushed from the mayor's forehead.at coke sweat (n.) under coke, n.1
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 212: I paused and stared [...] into her eyes. ‘You cooled Eddie Shultz’.at cool, v.3
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 32: Malone said, ‘Where you been, Country? I done closed two deals while you were gone’.at country, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 206: ‘[T]he Kotekna VCR deal that got soured up in Washington’.at curdle, v.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 61: ‘I was out last night, things got a little crazy. I got my eye dotted in a bar’.at dot, v.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 126: ‘Why don’t we set up on the porch and knock down those beers’.at knock down, v.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 38: ‘I could have had that fifty-nine cent ice bucket over here months ago, but I thought I’d let his droopy ass stew about it for a while’.at droopy, adj.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 122: ‘Anyway,’ he said, ‘you’re the one out on his ear. I’ve still got a job’.at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 20: As the manager [...] he knew what his priorities were: to put out fires and to protect his salesmen from the main office.at put out fires (v.) under fire, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 54: [A] few tables were empty. A waitress directed us to a four-top.at four-top (n.) under four, adj.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 75: ‘I should be able to walk through [the park] without stumbling on some freak faggots’.at freak, adj.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 42: The evening progressed with McGinnes and me hammering malt liquors one for one in the back room at an alarming rate.at hammer, v.1
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 188: ‘All right, Home,’ the short one said to Malone, and they touched knuckles.at home, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 185: I got dressed that morning, real sharp. [...] I was so hooked up, I was proud’.at hooked up, adj.3
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 210: The K-heads and cocaine kids moved about these rooms like hopped-up insects.at K, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 55: McGinnes [...] emerged [from the bar] with two sixes of longnecks under his arm.at long neck (n.) under long, adj.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 43: He unraveled his fist to reveal two orange hexagonal pills [...] ‘What is it?’ ‘Like a ‘lude, only not as heavy. [...] It’s just a painkiller’.at lude, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 127: Lazarus brought a glass out of the cupboard and placed it next to my can. ‘Here,’ he said. ‘Drink it like a white man’ .at white man, n.
1992 G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 6: I traded retail clichés (‘Katie, Bar the Door,’ ‘Passin’ Them Out Like Popcorn’) with Fisher, the company merch manager.at merch, n.