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We Are the Public Enemies choose

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[US] Axel Bracey Public Enemies in DSUE (1984).
at pig’s fry, v.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 160: Mazer talked the most and copped a plea of manslaughter.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 126: The amber brew [...] had just returned to slake the parched national palate.
at amber, adj.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 88: Even in good clothes, Floyd looked like an apple-knocker.
at apple-knocker, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 131: ‘We’re gonna get married.’ ‘In a pig’s eye you are.’.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 59: ‘That guy’s bad news,’ said Bonnie. ‘He’s goin’ to make it tough for all of us.’.
at bad news, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 124: Hoover’s organization has always made it a point not to nail people until they have them bang to rights.
at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 154: Peggy Cavanagh, the Cleveland Waitress, was being awakened in the morning and put to bed at night, as they say in detective circles.
at put to bed (v.) under bed, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 41: He made certain remarks about the raiding party and then went back to his paper and put the blast on the Federals.
at put the blast on (v.) under blast, n.1
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 47: Bonnie [...] was a rootin’, tootin’, whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking blonde bombshell.
at bombshell, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 11: A rural judge [...] threw the book at him – ten to 21 years.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 59: His wife, Blanche [...] was waiting for him at the gate. ‘I gave you a bad steer, Daddy,’ she said.
at bum steer (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 46: In March of 1930, two young bush league robbers [...] broke out of separate Texas jails within three days of each other.
at bush league, adj.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 132: Go around in circles so the chicken won’t know where you are takin’ him.
at chicken, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 36: When the chips were down [...] the boys were all brothers behind the sights.
at when the chips are down under chip, n.2
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 66: That night, the Barrow brothers and Jones broke into the Enid Armory and cleaned it out.
at clean out, v.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 50: Filling in his time on the outside [...] against the day when brother Clyde would fly the coop again.
at fly the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 141: Hoover’s men crashed Doc’s apartment and took him alive.
at crash, v.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 115: He had just crashed out of Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
at crash, v.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 95: Now he began to cuff Beuloah Baird around, just, for the hell of it.
at cuff, v.1
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 120: The Dee-Jays, as Hoover’s men were called because they operated out of the Department of Justice.
at Dee-Jay, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 97: The warehouse happened to be the drop of a bootleg ring.
at drop, n.1
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 43: Bell-bottom trousers so much in vogue with the drugstore cowboys of the day.
at drugstore cowboy (n.) under drugstore, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 18: Dillinger, realizing that he was white hot, after only three jobs, dusted to Dayton.
at dust, v.2
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 49: Barrow put down a slug of red eye and walked up to her.
at red-eye, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 8: The madam of a house of ill fame [...] put the finger on him.
at put the finger on (v.) under finger, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 140: Alvin Karpis had a hot flash. ‘Why don’t we all go to Florida?’.
at flash, n.1
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 136: The FBI had the goods on her now.
at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 23: Some of the gang, after years in prison, were skirt happy.
at -happy, sfx
[US] A. Hynd We Are the Public Enemies 50: Filling in his time on the outside with gas station heists.
at heist, n.
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