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The Anderson Tapes choose

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[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 133: Two are drivers, one of them a dumdum [HDAS].
at dum-dum, n.2
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 96: ‘[H]e was driving alky for Solly Benedict down there’.
at alky, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 115: You knew you’d have to carry a barker on this job?
at barker, n.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 97: [I] found out he was bent, sex-wise [...] Whips.
at bent, adj.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 24: The pale, white little mouse made of wire and steel. The essence of bitchery.
at bitchery (n.) under bitch, n.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 110: PAPA: Suppose there is a man we must put down. [...] Does he have relatives who will be embittered? Will the blues get upset?
at blue, n.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 97: D’MEDICO: [I] found out he was bent, sex-wise [...] Whips. ANGELO: Which way is he? This is important. D’MEDICO: Both ways, from what I hear.
at go both ways (v.) under both ways, adj.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 46: We drive up in front of the house. He gets out, braces the doorman and shows his ID.
at brace, v.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 22: Arrested on 18 March, 1964, during raid on bucket shop operation.
at bucket shop, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 23: I’ll call at noon every Friday until you’re set. Is your phone clean?
at clean, adj.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 124: And for this I put my cock on the line for a murder-one rap?
at have one’s cock on the block (v.) under cock, n.3
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 154: The faggot, Tommy Haskins, has never done a hard job before. He’s been on the con or hustling his ass.
at on the con under con, n.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 118: [T]hey must put their own man in to make sure there’s no cross.
at cross, n.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 197: Send a car. [...] Tell them to cruise five-three-five East Seventy-third Street.
at cruise, v.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 215: Victorian tiaras, bracelets, ‘dog collars,’ headache bands, pins, brooches.
at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 217: I wasn’t feeling down. I was feeling up. I thought it had been a very successful evening.
at down, adj.2
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 234: So then the fireworks start. Guns, lights, screams.
at fireworks, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 95: [T]hey never bugged out. Sometimes you get some freaky Southerners. I never saw a freaky mountain man.
at freaky, adj.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 119: I told you, I just want your advice. I’m all fucked up.
at fucked up, adj.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 86: A guy buys gifts for his wife because he knows she wont give out if he dont.
at give out, v.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 248: PAGENT: No pulse. NATHAN: Brisling? BRISLING: No heartbeat. [Lapse of nine seconds.] NATHAN: He’s gone.
at gone, adj.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 92: ‘I’m figuring on six G’s. Anything over is gravy’.
at gravy, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 120: When I was driving for a legger down home we had this old smoke working for us—he could turn out a mighty fine mash.
at legger, n.1
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 146: INGRID: [...] Perhaps that is why we are so simpatico. You were poor also . . . nein? ANDERSON: Yes. My family was white niggers.
at white nigger, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 115: We want him out—that’s all. You get him out. That’s our price.
at out, adj.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 95: They’re all born piss-poor. They got nothing but their pride.
at piss-poor (adj.) under piss-, pfx
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 33: Listen, kid, is it really bad? I mean, if you need a couple of plasters until Ed gets out, tell me.
at plaster, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 131: I like drumsticks and wings and the Pope’s nose.
at pope’s nose (n.) under pope, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 152: I don’t like you, prick-nose. But I’m stuck with you. I needed another body and they gave me a sack of shit like you.
at prick-arsed (adj.) under prick, n.
[US] L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 82: ‘[N]o more sweet push for pops for another three months unless we can work something out’.
at push, n.
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