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The Friends of Eddie Coyle choose

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[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 58: ‘Now let me tell you something, kid,’ the stocky man said.
at kid, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 35: .
at pack in (v.) under pack, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 100: You never screwed me yet.
at screw, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 155: ‘Is it going to be hot?’ ‘Does a bear shit in the woods?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 59: There’s always some lunatic looking around to take the numbers action.
at action, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 22: You could get me some three-fifty-seven and forty-one ammo.
at ammo, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 66: There’s a grocery store there [...] and a five-and-ten.
at five and dime, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 98: I frankly don’t give a rat’s ass.
at give a rat’s ass (v.) under rat’s ass, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 161: They all got bagged in a house up in Nahant this morning.
at bagged, adj.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 171: That Scal, he’s a ballsy guy, you know.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 5: Hurts like a bastard. [Ibid.] 15: I was thinking more [...] of you having the prosecutor tell the judge how I’ve been helping my uncle like a bastard.
at like a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 113: ‘Look,’ Coyle said, ‘They’re all batty.’.
at batty, adj.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 144: Sells, I figure he sells beaver pictures.
at beaver, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 147: Has he got any beef with you?
at beef, n.2
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 84: The Kraut spotted Dannie Theos the other day in a big maroon Bird.
at Bird, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 65: You can give me a whole ration of shit and this and that and blah, blah, blah.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 29: Goddam car was eating me blind.
at blind, adv.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 152: Jimmy hadda hit that guy because you blew it already in the bank.
at blow, v.2
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 61: You people want to fuck and blow a little pot.
at blow, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 35: So [...] I don’t bop her a couple, like I would like to.
at bop, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 74: It’s a goddamned front for the boys. They all get reportable income from Arliss and none of them work there.
at boys, the, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 10: He’d go a buck and a half apiece for as many as I could get.
at buck, n.3
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 14: We’re old buddies and all, Eddie.
at buddy, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 52: You better call the school and tell them we’ve all got the bug.
at bug, n.4
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 69: This brand-new Olds, which I assume they get with the money they bum off the sensible people.
at bum, v.3
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 165: Don’t bush me [...] Don’t hand me that crap.
at bush, v.2
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 41: The whole town’s buttoned up on this grand jury.
at buttoned up, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 23: They give him a big fat three for carrying without a permit.
at carry, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 42: That was a cheap shot. I apologize.
at cheap shot, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 18: One of the screws saw him getting chummy with the chaplain.
at chummy, adj.
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