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Gaily, Gaily choose

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[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 87: Sex was seldom a vital diversion to crooks. Danger and violence preoccupied their nerve centers, and sensuality was an also-ran.
at also-ran, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 114: Your Gypsy Toss-Pot is bound to turn up with some ambulance-chasing lawyer and make a grab for the Chatfield millions.
at ambulance-chasing (adj.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 91: Blondie who’s sitting at your table is a wrong guy. Strictly bad news.
at bad news, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 175: [He] had bagged many a scoop by this strategy.
at bag, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 62: He was the best of all our legal bamboozlers.
at bamboozler (n.) under bamboozle, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 22: Doc entered his office and found Mr. Bolger, head of the composing room, banging a naked lady on his couch.
at bang, v.1
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 142: Miss Caylor had barnstormed through the United States since her early teens, jumping into stage volcanoes, getting wrecked on desert islands.
at barnstorm, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 151: No chest. A pair of big bozooms.
at bazoom, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 51: Being married to that hot bean-pole and havin’ to sleep with it in one bed.
at beanpole, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 92: She had bedded with a score of lovers.
at bed, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 87: Bigwigs of industry, politics, and the arts felt enhanced by his handshake.
at bigwig, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 172: The arrogant bosses who bilked the workers and called for the state militia to shoot the bohunks down when they became too sassy.
at bilk, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 106: It was a three-story building, but its two upper floors had been blitzed by time.
at blitz, v.2
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 91: Blondie who’s sitting at your table is a wrong guy. Strictly bad news.
at blondie, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 189: He’s probably blotto by this time.
at blotto, adj.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 172: The arrogant bosses who bilked the workers and called for the state militia to shoot the bohunks down when they became too sassy.
at bohunk, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 122: It was a boobish time, even my youth could note its nonsense.
at boobish (adj.) under boob, n.2
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 104: Frank Feeney, is being taken to the Elgin State Hospital for the Insane this morning [...]. Members of his family are loyally escorting him to the booby hatch.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 58: The horses on which Kirby bet had already won, but the race results had not yet been broadcast to the town’s bookies.
at bookie, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 59: I lay claim to similar ownership of years passed, and the right to boondoggle while recounting them.
at boondoggle, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 118: [They] would have been arrested on opening nights and their casts carted to the Harrison Street bull pen.
at bullpen, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 55: I knew chiefly the rakish fraternity of [...] addled porch climbers, wife beaters, door-mat thieves, [...] butterfingered safeblowers and shop-lifters.
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 92: She liked to wallow in private dope parties where sex and hallucination cakewalked in the night.
at cakewalk, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 31: They rob my soul out of me. They leave me hiding away—a coon, dinge, nigger, boogie, shine. They disfigure me.
at coon, n.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 87: Not even our crack newspaper raconteurs could uncork gaudier, merrier tales than these villains.
at crack, adj.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 98: Swan’s lah-de-dah voice stopped me.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 43: Those bull heads don’t give a Goddamn if a man is innocent or not.
at god-damn, n.1
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 48: It’s the craziest Goddamn thing I ever heard.
at god-damn, adj.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 44: I’ll be Goddamned. That was Gus Plotka on the deathwatch. He says Fred Ludwig wants to confess. [Ibid.] 152: ‘I’ll be damned,’ said Mr. Mahoney.
at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
[US] B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 100: Goddamn her soul to hell!
at god-damn, v.
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