1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 177: I blew my cool, he thought, I took a hit upside my head for a couple of niggers who will suck white ass to they last day on earth.at suck someone’s ass under ass, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 74: ‘They framed me. The beakies had to find a victim—’ ‘Beakies?’ ‘Special inspectors. Undercover men. They go around in plain clothes, checking up on trainmen. [...] Spies is what they are.’.at beak, n.1
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 295: [O]ne of the boys fell in beside him. ‘Man, can you unload two bits on a deserving student?’.at two bits, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 97: The Organization had ordered him to mess up a couple of guys, but instead he offed them [...] he just wanted to make his bones in a hurry, was all.at make one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 147: ‘If there are any Puerto Rican brothers on that train, we demand the city to pay recompense for any injuries [...] they suffer’.at brother, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 155: If I had a submachine gun [...] I wouldn’t hesitate to put him behind it. Guts to burn’.at to burn (adv.) under burn, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 300: [H]e had spent half of the afternoon in a dentist’s chair, having [...] a couple of roots dug out by brute force. Dr. Schwartz was the name of the butcher.at butcher, n.1
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 114: ‘That’s enough out of you, Grandpa. Button up’ .at button up (v.) under button, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 95: Not that they had a chance [to fight back]. They would be chopped meat before they got their ass six inches off the seat.at chop(ped) meat, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 133: DCI Daniels [...] wants to go into the tunnel and clean those bastards out.at clean out, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 172: ‘Look, I only copped out recently, I’m just beginning to learn what the Movement is all about’ .at cop out, v.2
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 175: [D]id it make any sense to be sitting there opening and closing her legs as if she was creaming at the very sight of him?at cream, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 95: When they were planning the trick [...] he made it sound important [...] But it turned out to be dullsville.at dullsville (adj.) under dull, adj.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 96: Who else would be thinking about gash during a million-dollar heist?at gash, n.1
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 98: [I]f this deal came off he would have a hundred thousand out of it, and that was more money than a lot of ginzos in the Organization made in ten years.at ginzo, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 232: ‘Could they possibly swing anything as awkward as that? [...] It beats the hell out of me’.at beat (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, the, phr.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 27: [of the NYC subway system] In fact, in his whole time in, he had made only one real mistake, and that shortly after he finished his training.at in, adv.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 274: ‘Tell your men to sit down, sergeant. The Jap bastards booby-trapped us off the track’.at Jap, adj.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 27: [of a subway stop signal] He had jumped a ball, dear God. [...] Later he got a real reaming out.at jump, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 95: He sent his mind [...] right home to where it all lived—a fine black bush, and a slit like a mouth standing up on one end.at where it lives under live, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 144: [T]he determination [...] and aim of the Movement to hit Charlie where he live, namely, the pocketbook.at where one lives under live, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 234: He recalled what he had told the commissioner earlier—that he wouldn’t be the same man after this was over. It was true. It had taken the mickey out of him.at take the mickey (out of), v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 175: [S]he could no more not react in a professional way than she could grow a mickey between her legs.at mickey, n.1
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 176: [T]his was a real mink, this girl, all you had to do was throw a dirty thought at her and she was down on her back and spread out.at mink, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 54: It was the desk trainmaster’s voice, screaming into his microphone from Command Center. [...] ‘Tell his nibs supervision is on the way,’ he said to Marino.at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 76: [H]e lingered on the well-dressed Nee-gro with the attaché case. [...] A white nigger, long lost to the cause, and not worth the bother.at white nigger, n.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 222: ‘It might get stiff after a while,’ Ryder said. ‘No problem,’ Steever said. ‘I can hardly feel it’.at no problem, phr.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 226: The city was paying off. A million dollars, cash on the table.at pay off, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 210: ‘[H]e come running down and ripped off a burst’.at rip off, v.
1973 J. Godey Taking of Pelham One Two Three 214: She had turned out at the age of fourteen, she was almost thirty now.at turn out, v.4