1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 35: Asleep at the wheel, wonder boy?at asleep at the wheel, adj.
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 1: I called out softly, ‘Babes?’ She didn’t answer.at babes, n.
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 53: I bagged a miserable jerk on his first two-bit job.at bag, v.
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 25: Hate to have you in charge [...] you’d be a ballbreaker.at ball-breaker, n.
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘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
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 11: This big hunk of blubber did a hammy double-take.at blubber, n.2
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 25: What the devil brought that brainstorm on?at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 24: Haynes was [...] breezing with a sleepy-looking fat slob named Ace.at breeze, v.2
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘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
1957 ‘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.
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 16: Wales smiled, he had neat even teeth—and all of them store choppers.at choppers, n.
1957 ‘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
1957 ‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 27: Started to cut into the big pie but got himself killed.at cut into, v.
1957 ‘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
1957 ‘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
1957 ‘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.