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[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 3: He had already heard that Riff, one of the Ace-men, and a few other boys intended to hijack a bundle of the Daily News and hawk them in the subway.
at aceman (n.) under ace, adj.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 146: The penny pimps and two-bit whores – were barred.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 185: Take this ten and stir up some booze. Maybe can’t get anything good so late, but don’t bring any more of that antifreeze you got last week.
at antifreeze, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 24: You got too many ants in your pants tonight.
at ants in one’s pants under ants, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 151: Some of the girls went through while we’re talking and I tell you they was some babes.
at babe, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 180: Money John wove his fingers together on his head and began to wiggle and sway. ‘That’s what I call ballin’ the jack.’.
at ball the jack, v.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 49: And I’m clean beat. Got hardly enough to eat on.
at beat, adj.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 184: I had me a few belts early in the evening.
at belt, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 9: But the story was that he was moving up among the big-timers.
at big-timer (n.) under big time, n.1
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 189: ‘Watch yourself, Big Time!’ She stiff-armed him in the chest.
at big time, n.1
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 24: We try to make plans and all we get from you is a lot of big mouth.
at bigmouth, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 24: I just get tired of big-mouthing. I hate a guy to take a penny and turn it into a fifty-dollar bill.
at bigmouth, v.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 25: The chicken War Hawks pull dirty stuff, boom, boom, zingo – out our guys charge.
at bingo!, excl.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 36: They give you the cold-turkey treatment for a while, they offer you a cap, and you blab everything you know.
at blab, v.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 38: I don’t want no blabbermouth letting it out.
at blabbermouth, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 19: What’ll you do, blubber mush?
at blubber mush (n.) under blubber, n.2
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 62: How about a boot-up? I got enough dough for a reefer, but I sure could do real good with a couple of sniffs of horse.
at boot-up, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 63: I’ll get the deck and we’ll boot up.
at boot up, v.1
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 68: Stomp him, Frankie! Give him the boots.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 55: I seen it all myself. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
at oh boy!, excl.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 35: Aw, bull!
at bull!, excl.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 22: No killing. Just a nice burning.
at burn, v.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 33: Well, I didn’t show no chicken. I didn’t cringe none.
at chicken, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 9: Cinch handled a few stick-ups and was, as he said, a cinch at stealing cars.
at cinch, n.1
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 36: They give you the cold-turkey treatment for a while, they offer you a cap, and you blab everything you know.
at cold turkey, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 228: The Adolescents’ Court is known among the youths as the ‘lollypop’ or ‘short pants’ court.
at lollypop court, n.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 151: It was the damnedest place you ever did see, all red velvet.
at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 149: And even if you’re jim-dandy you still wait years until they’ve finished building.
at jim-dandy, adj.
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 28: From behind the cap his glossy black hair came together then pushed up in the ducktail hair dress which was fashionable among the War Hawks.
at ducktail (n.) under duck, n.1
[US] Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 29: Chubby drove Zebra over into Emerald turf to pick up that lay-easy bitch.
at lay-easy, adj.
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