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[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 50: Just a dumb kid stringing along with her smart guy boss.
at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 20: If that big baboon reckons I pay him to brush me off for a floozie, he’s got a pay-roll comin’ to him that ain’t in dollar bills.
at baboon, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 68: He felt a kind of pang about this dame being in bad with a devil like Marc Nolli.
at in bad under bad, adj.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 46: That dame sure had ambition writ big.
at big, adv.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 10: What’s all this about me bein’ in the big stuff now?
at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 85: Well! What’s bitin’ you?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 89: ‘Which way are you headin’?’ ‘Uptown, boss. But I’m hired.’.
at boss, n.2
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 7: Move on brother. Here’s the cop.
at brother, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 65: The busts never got reported and only the guy that ran the store knew that Max Gallo had done it.
at bust, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 65: Max was a clever buster and ran his territory for the North Californian Personal Insurance Corporation by protection against busting rather than the more common slugging.
at buster, n.1
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 14: Finding that New York territory was already carved up by bigger shots than he, Marc wisely decided to seek his fortune elsewhere.
at carve up, v.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 17: He went along to Chink Joe’s for breakfast.
at Chink, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 82: Rose [...] took it for granted that she could bump off Marc safely, although if Mickey did it he would get copped.
at cop, v.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 13: Plenty of the dames had nothing to show but themselves and no audience bigger than a two hundred pound sugar-daddy.
at sugar daddy, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 49: Micky’s dead pan looked deader than usual.
at deadpan, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 35: I c’n do ya five grand an’ quit, Donovan. I guess I’ve had it fer ’Frisco anyways.
at do, v.1
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 33: Baum was a dope. He was scared stiff and half-full of gin.
at dope, n.2
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 41: She was very different from the creamy-skinned baby-moll he was dropping.
at drop, v.1
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 53: You better start up a face pretty damn quick, or else.
at face, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 21: Sure, I was hangin’ around waitin’ for the time to keep that fix with ya, boss.
at fix, n.4
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 66: I saw him ’smornin’ an’ what a geezer! He’s gotta curl-brim hat an’ soft white shoes an’ a suit like a railroad executive.
at geezer, n.1
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 13: It was no high-hat joint, but a sight smarter than anything icky was used to. [Ibid.] 62: Rose Flaherty was not the sort of dame to get high-hat just because a man looked at her.
at high-hat, adj.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 20: Guess there ain’t a dame like that in all ’Frisco, an’ she’s hitchin’ on with Micky Donovan.
at hitch (up), v.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 82: She went downtown that very next morning to see a guy she knew in the business of selling ironmongery, and demanded a gun.
at ironmongery, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 19: Miky got a momentary picture of that full, soft body wrapped in a Jap silk kimono.
at Jap, adj.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 93: I buy meself a cheap cigar sometimes, an’ put a ritz band on it for kid.
at for kid under kid, n.2
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 50: His arm was round her shoulders in a flash and he was holding her like it was a necking party.
at necking party (n.) under necking, n.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 105: Hyar, Joe. What’s new?
at what’s new? under new, adj.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 38: Me an’ the boss’ll get by O.K.
at OK, adv.
[UK] K. Howard Small Time Crooks 9: Micky was known around as ‘Dumb Donovan’ and it was kind of funny to see him played around by a dame.
at play around (v.) under play, v.
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