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[US] R.L Bellem ‘The Shanghai Jester’ in Spicy Adventure Stories July 🌐 The Argus Agency was a blackleg crowd who wouldn’t hesitate to [...] slip a knife between his ribs.
at blackleg, adj.
[US] E.W. Calder ‘Black 13’ in Spicy Adventure Stories Aug. 🌐 It was the red-haired wren who’d cabbaged my thirty-five blue chips.
at cabbage, v.1
[US] E.W. Calder ‘Black 13’ in Spicy Adventure Stories Aug. 🌐 I wasn’t quite sure whether she was giving me the come-on stuff.
at come-on, n.
[US] E.W. Calder ‘Black 13’ in Spicy Adventure Stories Aug. 🌐 You were accused of being dog-drunk at the time.
at dog-drunk (adj.) under dog, adv.
[US] E.W. Calder ‘Black 13’ in Spicy Adventure Stories Aug. 🌐 You were a pilot on the Trans-American Air Lines. You washed out your ship over the desert.
at wash out, v.
[US] E.W. Calder ‘Black 13’ in Spicy Adventure Stories Aug. 🌐 Do you know you drive me nuts, Yolande? Do you know I’m screwy about you?
at screwy, adj.
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