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The Last Whisper in the Dark choose

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[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 261: ‘I don’t know why she gave you the beat-down you got’ [...] But my mother was right. I hadn’t thought things through.
at beat-down, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 206: ‘Brother went a little berserko and paid for it in the chair’.
at beserko, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 241: He snorted another bump of meth.
at bump, n.3
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 89: ‘You’ve checked my phone. You’ve been creeping me again’.
at creep, v.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 231: ‘You look half-past dead. You starting to pick up on the fact that you’re taking too many risks?’.
at half-past dead, adj.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 307: They weren’t going to make such a dipshit mistake.
at dipshit, adj.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 234: ‘It was only a matter of time before the dead driver led the feebs back to accomplices’.
at Feeb, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 151: I heard the men come in and futz with the alarm system keypad.
at futz, v.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 197: ‘He’s not a ginzo, but he was a trusted confidant of Big Dan back in the old days’.
at ginzo, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 56: I still didn’t understand [...] why she was interested in playing the role of a semiprostitute [...] or if it was all a sex game.
at working girl, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 187: If Danny Thompson already had a syndicate hitter on the move he’d likely be of the old-school goombah variety.
at goombah, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 150: Narrative arcs in horror flicks seemed to go out with the grindhouse movie theaters on Forty-second Street.
at grind house, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 84: He was playing high-stakes poker [...] with Danny Thompson and the other big gun operators.
at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 261: Holy fuck, I thought.
at holy fuck! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 263: First he’d suss out a fish [...] Then he’d keep the mark on the hook for as long as he could.
at on the hook(s) under hook, n.1
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 9: I didn’t want him [i.e. a dog] to have to get the hot shot like Collie had.
at hot-shot, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 147: [I] saw the faceplate to a forty-year-old safe. I wasn’t the world’s best jugger. It would take time to crack it.
at jugger, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 237: ‘He’s got fifty legbreakers [...] if he just wanted to kneecap her’.
at kneecap, v.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 266: Now go nab his old lady while you can.
at old lady, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 234: ‘They’ve never been nabbed’.
at nab, v.1
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 291: Will was all style and top-shelf bourbon and drug-selling horror-flick-king rip-off artist.
at rip-off artist (n.) under rip off, v.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 84: He was playing high-stakes poker [...] with Danny Thompson and the other big gun operators.
at operator, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 278: ‘We’ll call it a wash. You walk away and you stay away’.
at wash-out, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 34: [H]e became a hateful, piddling prick.
at piddling (adj.) under piddle, v.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 262: He [...] wore a popgun .22 on his belt.
at popgun, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 232: ‘He put the shits up you,’ Wes said. ‘I guess he did [...] the more I think of the guy, the more weirded out I feel’.
at put the shits up (v.) under shits, the, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 287: Danny had been targeted for something much worse than being slabbed.
at slab, v.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 24: ‘Doesn’t being a famous thief interfere with the need to be a slyboots?’.
at slyboots (n.) under sly, adj.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 311: [They] gave the place one last quick spiff job, wiping all surfaces down.
at spiff job (n.) under spiff, n.
[US] T. Piccirilli Last Whisper in the Dark 314: ‘Here, give me another tap of that [i.e. heroin].’ I handed it to him. He took a pinch, raised his fingers to his nostrils, and had a snort.
at tap, n.1
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