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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 158: He must have those old guys buffaloed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 119: He goes to the cuckoo house and we starve.
at cuckoo house (n.) under cuckoo, n.1
[US] 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
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 184: A passenger pointed to my wheels and shouted: ‘Ya got a flat, buddy!’.
at flat, n.1
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 197: The ‘gumshoers’—the Police Commissioner’s Confidential Squad, [...] was despised as deeply as the FBI.
at gumshoe, n.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 120: Just a little wise guy mocky.
at wise-guy, adj.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 33: Tom’s gonna lend me a half.
at half, n.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 64: The food’s lousy and the guards are queers and head busters.
at headbeater, n.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 83: For Gus, who maintains the best watering hole in this lousy town.
at watering hole, n.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 55: You give ’em to jerko here.
at jerko (n.) under jerk, n.1
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 162: Some jerkwater college near the Canadian border.
at jerkwater, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 151: Wait till Chena gets a load of that.
at get a load of (v.) under load, n.
[US] 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.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 120: Just a little wise guy mocky.
at mockie, n.
[US] 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
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 204: ‘Give him a pound.’ The other reluctantly handed over the five dollar bill.
at pound, n.3
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 309: He gives her a hundred bucks to whack up among them.
at whack up, v.2
[US] J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 78: She’s built [...] A real zoftig broad.
at zaftig, adj.
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