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[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 A brunette quail [...] blammed into me.
at blam, v.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 You’re the heel who’s been bleeding me, threatening to inform my wife I had a crush on Trixie Trask.
at bleed, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 In case the movie industry gets tired of me and boots me out on my rear.
at boot, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 No hard feelings for that bop on the jaw I gave you?
at bop, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 [He] looked more like a professional bouncer than a diamond salesman; he had the build of a grizzly bear, a bullet-shaped conk with the hair cropped short, and two of the prettiest cauliflower ears you ever piped outside a boxing arena.
at bouncer, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 ‘You can see what’s left of [the band] right here.’ Her mouth got sour. ‘Playing for buttons’.
at button, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Then he sells the action to a cheapie firm [...] before my own production is even ready for cutting,.
at cheapie, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 You used to be a gun moll in Chi, which would ruin you in the movies.
at Chi, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 You think somebody from the old outfit might put the chill on him for revenge, hunh?
at put the chill on (v.) under chill, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 I can handle my own clambakes, see?
at clambake, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 ‘Oh,’ I sneered. ‘A Cossack, hunh?’.
at cossack, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Is that all it means to you? Don’t you realize this is croakery?
at croakery (n.) under croaker, n.3
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 I was your husband’s best pal, we crushed out of stir together in Illinois.
at crush out, v.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 You’re all damp. I’m sorry to hear you’re being blackmailed, but I’m not the shakedown artist.
at damp, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 All duded up in high heeled boots, Angora chaps, checkerboard shirt, and a ten-gallon Stetson.
at duded up, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 He came back within less than ten minutes; caught me flat-footed.
at flat-footed, adj.4
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 He’d caught me red handed in the act of putting the frisk on his portable dressing trailer.
at frisk, v.2
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 Naturally you’d front for Brett since he’s paying your fee.
at front for (v.) under front, v.2
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 I still crave to know why you want me to guard a guy whose giblets you detest.
at giblets, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 She was hooked up with a hood, a small time grifter and gunsel.
at gonsel, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 I favored them both with a scoffing sneer. ‘Horse chestnuts’.
at horseshit!, excl.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 In this case the wolves were jive hounds—members of Wardman’s former orchestra.
at -hound, sfx
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 What’s the inside dope? [...] Who gets pinched and why?
at inside dope (n.) under inside, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 Florrie Doddridge clipped you on the sconce with a fifth of juniper juice.
at juniper (juice), n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 This smashes my pic to hellangone [...] I’ll have to scrap every scene Trixie appeared in.
at pic, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 A Poverty Row independent company can pirate some footage of a cattle stampede or Indian fight without cost.
at Poverty Row, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 I’m a private skulk in Hollywood and adjacent points.
at private skulk (n.) under private, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 Go on, roll your hoop, or I’ll pinch you along with the jane.
at roll one’s hoop (v.) under roll, v.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 You don’t look so seedy, kitten. That’s a nifty set of threads you’re wearing.
at seedy, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 Brett was [...] as sharp as a tack where brains were concerned.
at sharp, adj.
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