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[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 19: His two ace detectives with their identical big hard-shooting, head-whipping pistols.
at ace, adj.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 15: The driver hesitated a moment longer. ‘They’re armed for bear.’.
at armed for bear, phr.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 145: ‘Got your ass torn, eh, buddy?’ ‘Yeah, the boss man got salty.’.
at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 65: That’s Homicide’s baby. We got nothing on O’Hara.
at baby, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 19: I know what you’re up against here in Harlem. I know your beat.
at beat, n.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 138: Goodbye, big shit.
at big shit, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 136: Don’t get your breeches torn [...] All you got against me is suspicion of homicide.
at don’t get your breeches torn under breeches, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 33: They might have been in cahoots with O’Malley to help him get away with the money.
at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 38: I’ve got to see which way this mother-raping cat is jumping.
at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 20: They’ve knocked over Big Liz’s circus house.
at circus house (n.) under circus, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 78: Conk-haired black cotton pickers, clad in overalls that resembled Italian-tailored suits.
at conked, adj.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 189: ‘This cooks him,’ Grave Digger said.
at cook, v.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 197: ‘Dry up,’ Four-Four said.
at dry up, v.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 182: They stood at the bar like two cats having a sip of something cold to dampen their dry jag.
at dry jag (n.) under dry, adj.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 66: Why don’t the Feds knock him off? Who’s he paying?
at Fed, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 139: ‘Give us the key and we’ll strike off the murder.’ Deke looke up at him as though from a great distance. [...] ‘Frig you,’ he said.
at frig you! (excl.) under frig, v.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 75: He looked white about the gills himself.
at white about/around/in/round the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 116: Both women were nude and badly mauled — scratched and beaten as though they’d had a furious go with each other.
at have a go (v.) under go, n.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 137: Punk, listen [...] You’re going up anyway. We got the proof.
at go up, v.2
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 50: I got a word first for Early Riser’s gunsel.
at gonsel, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 54: He climbed in [to the cab] and leaned forward and said ‘Penn Station and goose it’.
at goose, v.3
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 36: Those eighty-seven families who had put down their thousand-dollar grub-stakes on a dream.
at grubstake, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 44: You’ll find those heaps hopped up. The armoured truck has an old Cadillac engine.
at heap, n.2
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 186: Paul had just ridden by giving the high sign that Iris was still put.
at high sign, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 108: He was just lounging around in his shorts, drinking bourbon highballs.
at highball, n.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 108: Just before he’d had to holler calf-rope she’d calmed down.
at holler calf-rope (v.) under holler, v.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 41: I’m sending over a man to keep her on ice.
at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 152: You’re certain this bale of cotton was carried by the meat delivery truck used by the jackers.
at jacker, n.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 18: Well, kiss my foot if it isn’t Jones.
at kiss my foot! (excl.) under kiss, v.
[US] C. Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 66: Why don’t the Feds knock him off? Who’s he paying?
at knock off, v.
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