1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 49: ‘He’s in bad himself, Jim,’ said Al. ‘Just because he was such a good friend of Tom’s’.at in bad under bad, adj.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 24: Traffic was getting completely out of hand in the big town.at big town, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 57: ‘[I]t’s a delicate matter, Al; a lot of big guys owe you. Okay?’.at big guy (n.) under big, adj.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 17: ‘Jake was soft for her. [...] Then one day blooey! Jim Chase moves in and it’s bye-bye Jake!’ .at blooey!, excl.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 57: In fact, if Al [...] didn’t keep his head this might turn into the big blow-off that the Reformers had been looking for ever since they took office.at blow off, n.2
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 73: ‘I got a buzz on you tonight. Guy I never seen before sat down beside me in a diner, got to talking. [...] He wanted a rundown. I give him nothing, Chief’.at buzz, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 85: ‘Chief, trouble. There’s a tail on me. And you know the guy that buzzed me about you? D.A.’s office. I just got the tip from a friend’.at buzz, v.1
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 63: ‘No local record, and since you say he’s been at Volari’s for six or seven years, looks like he’s clean. At least in this town’.at clean, adj.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 50: ‘‘Zena’s no vestal virgin [...] She was digging him with his own words of the other night, and it bothered him’.at dig, v.1
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 16: ‘How’s it with you and doll-face? [...] Still see her?’.at dollface, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 107: ‘We always answer the phone that way now.’ ‘What does your mother say?’ ‘Oh, it’s only when she’s not here. She’d fracture us’.at fracture, v.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 43: ‘I need it,’ cried Tom. ‘You think I’m going clear to San Fran and live on my relatives?’.at San Fran, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 42: This is where I kept Tom’s getaway money, in cash. Two hundred thousand dollars. Getaway money, did I say? Tom’s roll, I mean.at getaway money (n.) under getaway, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 46: [T]he business district [...] had badly run to seed and was crammed with rooming-houses, cheap stores, hole-in-the-wall bars.at hole in the wall, adj.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 46: ‘I’m starving. the Hall ain’t what it used to be. I’m on the crap list, I guess. Never get a jingle’.at jingle, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 18: ‘Tomorrow night the three of you go in there and pull the knockover’.at knock-over, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 66: ‘I told her I thought you were a nice fellow.’ ‘Thanks loads,’ Draper said sarcastically.at loads, adv.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 43: ‘That lunkhead brother of mine makes a big deal out of delivering the money. [...] He could have brought it up himself. Or given it to you. But, no, it has to be a big mystery’.at lunkheaded, adj.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 42: ‘Two hundred thousand dollars. Getaway money, did I say? Tom’s roll, I mean, except for a piddling checking account’.at piddling (adj.) under piddle, v.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 20: Jim would laugh and say that he was just a Bohemian at heart, or that he liked to pig it, or that it was cheap, which it was not.at pig it (v.) under pig, v.1
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 134: All along he’d been [...] worried about that over-slick, little junky promoter, Mond.at promoter, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 64: ‘Well, if you ever change your mind [about taking up golf], Ole Hoss,’ Andy said, magnanimously, ‘let me know. I’ll put you up for the club’.at put up, v.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 32: ‘Al’s always shaking like a bone-fed dog. Can’t put no trust in him. Listens to all the scaredy cats’.at scaredy-cat (n.) under scare, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 78: ‘ That weak little old drink really set me up. I haven’t felt this good for months.’ .at set up, v.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 101: ‘I’ve been transferred to Smoketown as of this morning.’ ‘That’s a lousy shafting, Pat’.at shafting, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 46: ‘I’m starving. the Hall ain’t what it used to be. I’m on the crap list, I guess. Never get a jingle’.at shit list (n.) under shit, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 16: ‘The cleanup isn’t over,’ Jim said. ‘They’re still uncovering things. If they can sink Tom, they will’.at sink, v.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 93: ‘[T]he boys fell out; some of ‘em ran off with the dough; and maybe somebody else got rocked to sleep, if you know what I mean’.at put to sleep (v.) under sleep, n.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 144: Tom would certainly try to smear him in court, by way of revenge. That was to be expected.at smear, v.
1961 W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 101: ‘I’ve been transferred to Smoketown as of this morning.’ ‘That’s a lousy shafting, Pat’.at Smoketown (n.) under smoke, n.