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[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 216: There was a plastic foam cup in his right hand and the ass end of a cigar in the fingers of his left.
at arse-end, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 1: [T]here are no neighborhood joints left [...] where a man can get lost and smoke cigarettes down to the filter and drink beer backed with whiskey.
at back, n.1
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 141: ‘Rough two years I spent up there—for a country boy. In D.C. I wasn’t nothin’ but a “bama”’.
at Bama, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 236: Bonanno moved into proven, established neighborhoods and burned out the competition. Solanis [i.e. a hit man] was there to make sure there weren’t any belches.
at belch, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 231: ‘[T]hat boy was hard on the Boat. Had enough green in him to knock down a horse’.
at boat, n.1
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 15: [T]he fuckin’ boofers. You know what they ought to do about the drug problem in this city? [. . . .]. Take ‘em out in the middle of the street and shoot ‘em in the head. Public fuckin’ executions’.
at boofer, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 18: [We] split a bumper of beer and huffed half a pack of Marlboros.
at bumper, n.2
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 41: I reached behind me to the second row of call, grabbed the black-labeled bottle of Jack, and poured him some sour mash.
at call, n.2
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 112: I found WMUC on Billy’s radio [...] I clockwised the volume .
at clockwise, v.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 73: [A] sweet-natured down freak who was the store manager.
at down freak (n.) under down, n.5
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 144: ‘Tell me everything you did between the time she glommed the cash and the time she left you’.
at glom, v.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 231: ‘[T]hat boy was hard on the Boat. Had enough green in him to knock down a horse’.
at green, n.2
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 17: [T]hat rare ability to fit in at the fringe of every group—hippies, grits, geeks, jocks.
at grit, n.4
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 235: Boyle said, ‘I’m already heeled.’ He pulled back the collar of his Harris tweed jacket, showing me the Python. Then he reached into the bag and retrieved a five-shot .38 Special.
at heeled, adj.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 18: [We] split a bumper of beer and huffed half a pack of Marlboros.
at huff, v.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 108: A confederate flag hung over the empty dance floor, surrounded by [...] T-shirted young men drinking long-necked Buds and Lights.
at long neck (n.) under long, adj.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 11: I hooked up with her fairly easily through her mall-rat friends and we had lunch.
at mall rat, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 235: ‘The tall man goes by the name of Solanis. Contract mechanic, from Miami. They say he killed a cop’.
at mechanic, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 217: ‘Never happen,’ Frank said. ‘I’m not that kind of sucker. Nice try, though’.
at never happen under never, adv.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 13: [of a lesbian] Occasionally she’d poke her head in the Spot [...] and invariably one of my regulars would boast that he could ‘turn one of those “rug munchers” around’ if he had the chance.
at rug-muncher (n.) under rug, n.1
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 120: [W]hen ‘Blue Sky’ came on, and Dickey Betts moved into his monster guitar solo, I lost my shit.
at lose one’s shit under shit, n.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 131: The bearman had lit the joint and was stooping low as he shotgunned Ken.
at shotgun, v.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 216: So let’s see what you got, quick, before [...] I make you come in on order day like every other slob’.
at slob, n.1
[US] (con. 1976) G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 120: On his feet were the denim stack [...] a pair of shoes that he knew I had always wanted to own.
at stacks, n.2
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 13: I made the yellow pages deadline, listing myself as ‘Nicholas J. Stefanos, Investigator,’ even stepping up for the boldfaced type.
at step up (v.) under step, v.
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 13: [of a lesbian] Occasionally she’d poke her head in the Spot [...] and invariably one of my regulars would boast that he could ‘turn one of those “rug munchers” around’ if he had the chance.
at turn around (v.) under turn, v.1
[US] G.P. Pelecanos Nick’s Trip 120: [H]e had never let me drive his car, even on his most twisted nights.
at twisted, adj.2
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