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[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 123: Such persons as ambulance chasers, cappers for lawyers, bail bond fixers, and other forms of fungus which feeds on the misfortunes of crime.
at ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 247: This car’s a bender. One of your gang probably stole it.
at bender, n.3
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 246: You suspect me of being in a stolen car? Look it over, take the numbers. You’ll never find me in a bent job.
at bent, adj.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 87: ‘This is the blow-off,’ he mumbled. ‘They’ve got Boss McLaughlon. We’ve all got to leave town.’.
at blow off, n.2
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 178: By this time the back or ‘cat’ roads used by bank robbers were choked with snow.
at cat road (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 14: The word passed from crook to crook that there was a ‘cooling-off joint’ in Tulsa where a criminal not only could get protection, but shrewd advice.
at cool off, v.2
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 50: Karpis [...] remained remorseless, coldly kill-crazy.
at -crazy, sfx
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 235: There were number changers, [...] contact men, ‘drop’ or hideout owners.
at drop, n.1
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 154: I know a job that would bring you in ten thousand dollars, and all you’d have to do would be to finger a certain man for us.
at finger, v.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 174: Robbers had deemed it necessay to hire a ‘finger man’.
at finger man, n.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 106: He acted as the ‘front man’ in the purchase of a car for Baby Face.
at front man (n.) under front, adj.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 123: Such persons as ambulance chasers, cappers for lawyers, bail bond fixers, and other forms of the fungus which feeds on the misfortunes of crime.
at fungus, n.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 114: Stay away from us. You’re hot. It’s G heat! We don’t want to lay eyes on you!
at G-heat (n.) under G, adj.1
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 114: Get going! This is G-man heat!
at heat, n.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 149: Kathryn had an underworld reputation as a ‘locator,’ or ‘caser,’ the person who goes ahead to plan the robbery of a store or bank.
at locate, v.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 197: Muddled with drink, he had talked too much.
at muddled, adj.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 28: She continued to write sobby letters sending them [...] to persons she believed influential.
at sob, n.1
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 190: It is the plaint of many sob-sisters.
at sob sister (n.) under sob, n.1
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 173: At first he worked [...] with old-timers, learning all his comrades knew about the ‘souping’ or dynamiting of safes.
at soup, n.
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 284: Eddie Doll [...] a reputed ‘spot killer’ for some of Chicago’s most desperate gangsters.
at spot killer (n.) under spot, n.3
[US] J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 173: I decided to become a yegg [...] a bank robber, you know. They’re the aristocracy of the criminal profession.
at yegg, n.
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