1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 317: You can select your own bagman [...] but I want to make a tour with him. I want to know everybody we’re paying.at bagman, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 184: So [...] there isn’t a real ball-busting cops’ union? One that would go all out for the guys on the beat?at ball-breaking, adj.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 315: If you are only looking to make a fast buck, I would advise you to forget it.at fast buck, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 65: That son of a bitch Farrell’s a bug on kids talkin’ in the halls.at bug, n.4
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 69: Every time a kid goes [...] to get working papers Father John hits the ceiling.at hit the ceiling, v.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 119: He goes to the cuckoo house and we starve.at cuckoo house (n.) under cuckoo, n.1
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 16: A huge crowd of dock wallopers was gathered about the entrance to one pier.at dock-walloper (n.) under dock, n.2
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 184: A passenger pointed to my wheels and shouted: ‘Ya got a flat, buddy!’.at flat, n.1
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 119: Over there the fresh fish [...] are turned over to the old cons.at fresh fish (n.) under fresh, adj.2
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 130: ‘Stop acting like a stupid Irish gangster. Do you have to be like the cripple?’ ‘The Gimp?’.at gimp, n.2
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 197: The ‘gumshoers’—the Police Commissioner’s Confidential Squad, [...] was despised as deeply as the FBI.at gumshoe, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 64: The food’s lousy and the guards are queers and head busters.at headbeater, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 83: For Gus, who maintains the best watering hole in this lousy town.at watering hole, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 27: [to a policeman] To my horror Joe began chanting, ‘Kidney feet . . . Kidney feet . . .’.at kidney-foot (n.) under kidney, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 151: Wait till Chena gets a load of that.at get a load of (v.) under load, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 54: The Mickey Mouse comes around and the cop puts out his hand. You pay or the bastards lock you up.at Mickey Mouse, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 148: Pepe’s office was not the cramped, cluttered pack-rat’s nest.at packrat (n.) under pack, n.3
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 204: ‘Give him a pound.’ The other reluctantly handed over the five dollar bill.at pound, n.3
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 55: ‘He’s stupid as . . .’ [...] The boy with the pencil volunteered, ‘Stupid as shit,’ and rocked with laughter.at as shit (adv.) under shit, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 35: You can see ’em sittin’ on the stoops in Guinea Alley. Spaghetti eaters.at spaghetti bender (n.) under spaghetti, n.
1971 J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 309: He gives her a hundred bucks to whack up among them.at whack up, v.2