2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 285: ‘I don’t get it. They’re not worth shit’.at not worth a shit, phr.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 27: Sitting on the hood of a ’66 Mustang, holding in a lungful of Acapulco Gold.at Acapulco (gold), n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 126: [W]ord was he’d ace anyone who even looked like they might rat on him.at ace, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 38: Danny at least had the good sense to appear sorry for his strong-arm tactics.at strong-arm, adj.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 169: [I] tore ass out of the lot with the tires smoking and squealing.at tear arse, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 122: He probably thought that I was distant, cold, a tightass.at tight-arse, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 227: If she went for bad boys she could still go for smarter.at bad boy, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 234: ‘Our boy gets laid last night and suddenly he’s all balls’.at balls, adj.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 9: I hung up on his smile and let out a hiss that steamed the glass. Already he’d bent me out of shape.at bent, adj.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 231: Wes kept mostly clear of the scene, popping over only every once in a while to make sure nobody was getting too badly bent out of shape.at bent, adj.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 31: ‘Senior had a coronary three, four years ago and retired to Arizona. The big one hit him in Phoenix, on a golf course’.at big one, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 14: [He] took three or four trips down to Atlantic City a year and sometimes hit big.at big, adv.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 20: Her parents [...] shoved up against the wall, frisked, billy-clubbed in the kidneys, cuffed, Freeze, dirtbag.at billy, n.4
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 33: All the old-timers had either kicked off, been sent to the bin, or retired.at bin, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 38: JFK’s [i.e. a dog] reputation hadn’t been the only thing holding his men back from bracing Mal.at brace, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 227: Butch was a dim bulb [...] I wasn’t going to be able to talk any sense into him.at dim bulb, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 131: ‘And [we would] bum-rush the neighborhood kids’ birthday parties’.at bumrush, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 99: ‘She was hooked on her own product and undoubtedly shorted her supplier. That’s why she bought it’.at buy it (v.) under buy, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 270: ‘[A] family of thieves. One’s on death row and due for the needle, and another just bought the farm’.at buy the farm, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 23: [M]y grandfather and his brother, who were starting to learn what to do in order to stay out of the can.at can, n.1
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 226: Danny would want a fat hunk off the top and there wasn’t going to be much cheese left for the rest of them.at cheese, n.1
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 229: The Chi syndicate was here pulling the Thompson crew apart and stealing their business.at Chi, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 7: He hadn’t taken anything, hadn’t even cleaned out the register at the gas station.at clean out, v.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 175: He was a clothes horse. He had at least twenty tailored suits in his closet.at clotheshorse, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 114: Terry, we’ve got a good day ahead of us [...] Tight cooze and big coin.at cooze, n.
2012 T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 178: ‘The forty-year-olds, they’re not called cougars for nothing’.at cougar, n.