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[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 35: Asleep at the wheel, wonder boy?
at asleep at the wheel, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 7: Him and [...] those fat-assed kids who acted like a couple of fags.
at fat-ass, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 1: I called out softly, ‘Babes?’ She didn’t answer.
at babes, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 53: I bagged a miserable jerk on his first two-bit job.
at bag, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 63: I’m not the captain’s bagman.
at bagman, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 25: Hate to have you in charge [...] you’d be a ballbreaker.
at ball-breaker, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 75: The baldy driver asked, ‘Young to be a cop, aren’t you?’ [...] a couple of blocks later this billiard ball-head stops the bus to call over a beefy beat patrolman.
at ballhead, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 92: Maybe she’s right about it not being the best job in the world for me, maybe I would be a whiz-bang at something else.
at whiz bang, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 12: Fast driving gives me a bang.
at bang, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 9: The beat cop, an old beerhound, slipped Lampkin a halfhearted salute.
at beerhound (n.) under beer, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 37: An unexpected belt in the gut is rugged.
at belt, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 59: What kind of belt would you like, Dave, rye, scotch, gin, vodka, or tequila?
at belt, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 91: She still thinks if you work hard you get ahead, make the big buck.
at big buck, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 11: This big hunk of blubber did a hammy double-take.
at blubber, n.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 25: What the devil brought that brainstorm on?
at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 24: Haynes was [...] breezing with a sleepy-looking fat slob named Ace.
at breeze, v.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 43: I must have been giving her bug eyes for she glanced down at herself.
at bug-eye, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 84: I walked into data, inc. ready to give them a bull yarn if I was wrong.
at bullshit, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 46: And being pushed about, jostled, that happens all the time too—a guy is rushing for a bus and bunks into—.
at bunk, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 7: Uncle Frank, what a case.
at case, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 26: I’m sending Hayes downtown to the line-up to look over a rubber check artist we’re interested in.
at rubber cheque, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 16: Wales smiled, he had neat even teeth—and all of them store choppers.
at choppers, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 132: They got four or five grand at a clip.
at clip, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 40: When I start taking crap you can pull a headstone over me.
at take crap (v.) under crap, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 27: Started to cut into the big pie but got himself killed.
at cut into, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 127: Don’t bring me any candy or other dreck.
at dreck, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 1: The lamp looked like a drippy flower.
at drippy, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 76: They had to put a watchman in. An old duffer in the neighborhood.
at duffer, n.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 1: The dumb lamp we had in the two-by-four ‘foyer’ was on.
at dumb, adj.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 105: Knowing I could spend the night with Susan [...] gave me a kind of reverse-English bang.
at reverse English, n.
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