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[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 70: Ye can’t help me [...] nobody can’t. I’m up against the push.
at up against the wall under up against, phr.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 4: You’ll wish they’d handed you the book and you’d been hung.
at book, n.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 22: Didn’t have to look out for no ‘bulls’.
at bull, n.5
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 75: The bullet-headed burglar.
at bullet-headed, adj.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 7: ‘Hang on to your copper,’ he murmured. [Ibid.] 38: He would have remaining to serve only 1760 days. 1760 – if he held his copper. He had held it [...] These calculations had become a mania with him. He would reduce to days his original sentence, then to days his copper, then his original sentence minus his copper, then his original sentence minus his copper minus the days served.
at copper, n.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 38: He would have remaining to serve only 1760 days. 1760 – if he held his copper. He had held it.
at blow one’s copper (v.) under copper, n.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 129: He came upon a policeman. The man, a big, burly hulk, was walking slowly, twirling his stick.
at hulk, n.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 4: You’ll wish that more’n once before ye’ve croaked in this mill!
at mill, n.1
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 65: ‘What’s got into me?’ whispered 9009; ‘am I going nuts?’.
at go nuts (v.) under nuts, adj.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 70: Ye can’t help me [...] nobody can’t. I’m up against the push.
at push, n.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 55: A shock-headed, square-bodied little safe-cracker, called ‘Shorty’.
at shorty, n.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 23: No more of this [...] I’ll turn square.
at turn square (v.) under square, adj.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 126: ‘An’ don’t squeak,’ he went on; ‘if ye do, I’ll cut your head off.’.
at squeak, v.
[US] Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 8: I’ll wise you to a thing or two.
at wise up, v.
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