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[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 56: ‘How’re you and the old mafioso getting along?’ ‘We’re ace deuce. I beat the shit out of who he says, and he gives me money for it’.
at ace-deuce, n.2
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 131: What would Gloria have to say when he dropped a hundred grand on her little blond ass? That would shut up all her heckle and jeckle bullshit.
at heckle and jeckle, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 104: ‘I got priors, and these fools made credit cards the same as murder if you got a record. I might as well rip and tear as use finesse’.
at rip and tear, v.2
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 104: ‘You need any artillery? I know a guy with some full automatic M16s’.
at artillery, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 5: ‘I halfass wish I didn’t have this parole,’ he said.
at half-assed, adv.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 9: She was a good broad. Halfass pretty, too, if she’d lose fifteen or twenty pounds.
at half-assed, adv.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 8: First he chopped the flakes [...] tooted them up the nose, and that was good. But he knew how to get a bigger bang.
at bang, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 21: [T]he general secretary was arranging to pay him for featherbedding. [...] [H]e was being paid a teamster’s wages, with overtime.
at feather-bedding, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 26: Such things [i.e. arson] were gifts. What would Troy say? ‘A bird’s nest on the ground’ [ibid.] 165: It was so easy that Troy felt none of the usual fear at the start of a caper. It was easy, a bird’s nest on the ground.
at bird’s nest on the ground, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 100: ‘Prison preserves a sucker. No booze, no drugs.’ ‘Hey, this is me.’ ‘Well, yeah, a little homebrew’.
at brew, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 1: It took several arrests for car theft or burglary. If it was a first offense, it was armed robbery or a drive-by shooting.
at drive-by, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 154: One bad move, you know—bang, you serve a decade in the garbage can’.
at garbage can, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 114: [H]e could play the game as well as any other chump.
at chump, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 70: ‘There didn’t used to be so many doin’ shit, and those that were thieves, they know how to play con, or boost. They had some game’.
at play con (v.) under con, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 15: He blinked at the door while spinning down, down into the hell of a cocaine crash.
at crash, n.2
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 78: ‘Man, who was that chick I ran into?’ ‘Some chick Gigolo Perry cut me into’.
at cut into, v.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 50: The convict brought the hanger with his dress-out clothes. The two other men being released were already changing.
at dress-out suit, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 215: The cop had him pinned. He would be duck soup if he tried to run out of the door.
at duck soup, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 103: ‘He ran out of gas and the nigger stopped him. Everybody fell out laughing’.
at fall out, v.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 53: [T]he Greek’s supposed to be rich handlin’ that go-fast shit. I think he’s got a lab and makes it.’ ‘Lotta money in methamphetamine.
at go-fast, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 126: ‘What about the lawyer? [...] the lip that fingered the score in the first place?’.
at finger, v.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 120: [S]ome teenage youths [...] were trying to pull up a two-by-four from a bungalow porch rail. ‘Freeze on that!’ Mad Dog yelled, and racked the pump on the shotgun.
at freeze on, v.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 70: ‘There didn’t used to be so many doin’ shit, and those that were thieves, they know how to play con, or boost. They had some game’.
at game, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 51: At the administration building they were given ‘gate money,’ parole papers, and bus tickets.
at gate money (n.) under gate, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 41: It was a lot safer, too, because the scores were planned, not hully-gully where you might run into any kind of a surprise.
at hully-gully, adv.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 150: The old mafioso was a hick about women and wives and shit like that. A snake in business, he was a squarejohn in family values.
at hick, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 100: ‘He managed to get hooked in the joint. He had a run going before they locked him up’.
at hustle, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 71: ‘Quit running your jaws and let’s go,’ Pearl said.
at run one’s jaws (v.) under jaw, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 22: No John Q. Square was going to bump into him committing a felony and make a citizen’s arrest.
at John Q. Public, n.
[US] E. Bunker Dog Eat Dog 150: The old mafioso was a hick about women and wives and shit like that. A snake in business, he was a squarejohn in family values.
at square john, n.
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