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[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 30: We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?
at catch, v.1
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 30: Hey! Cheeses, what an idea!
at cheese!, excl.
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 30: Want me to dope out a perfect murder of your wife for you?
at dope, v.2
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 64: ‘You ol’ jassack!’ one said.
at jassack, n.
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 41: Long Island ... In New York, lunk, ever hear of it?
at lunk, n.
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 72: The island. It looked like a neckers’ paradise.
at necker, n.
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 25: I got a few crack-proof rackets doped out.
at racket, n.1
[US] P. Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1974) 70: Something swatted him in the back of the head, he turned belligerently, but it was only some fellows rough-housing with one another.
at roughhouse, v.
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