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Round the Clock at Volari’s choose

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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] W.R. Burnett Round the Clock at Volari’s 16: ‘How’s it with you and doll-face? [...] Still see her?’.
at dollface, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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