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The Men from the Boys choose

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[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 25: I nearly killed a cocky A.W.O.L. wop.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys 🌐 What makes you so all fire sure, Marty?
at all-fired, adv.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 39: He came out of the army a pork-and-bean middleweight, but smart enough to give up the ring.
at pork-and-beans, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 39: You have the sincere fellows, some jerks, and a few angle lads – wanting to get in on the ground floor.
at angle, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 76: For once I want to nail down a big boy, a top apple.
at apple, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 21: Don’t make a horse’s rear out of yourself, especially if you might get on the force someday.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 65: He lowered his voice. ‘Union would have my rear if they knew.’.
at have someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys 🌐 The boy badge have his hand out?
at badge, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 36: I told the old-bag waitress to give me a double hunk.
at bag, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 10: Kenny, the bellhop, took another fifteen cents besides his tips.
at bellhop (n.) under bell, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 62: I let go of him. ‘All right. Sorry I blew my cap, buddy.’.
at blow one’s top, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 31: Bill Ash had been my boon buddy for a lot of years.
at boon, n.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 57: The bootleg boxing bouts when a carload of us ‘amateurs’ would tour in a battered heap [...] fighting each night under a phony name.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 16: ‘All this — hotel business — must be rather tame for you, isn’t it, Marty?’ ‘Bounce a drunk now and then [...] That’s about it.’.
at bounce, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 50: Didn’t I read about you being bounced from the force?
at bounce, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 10: ‘Beat it, you sweatbox.’ ‘You ain’t kidding, I feel soggy.’.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 22: You really going to marry a Jew-girl? [...] I’m not bigoted. I’ve known some pretty good nigger cops and Jew-boys.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 101: A friend of Harold’s is breaking her in and since Florence was sick tonight, Harold sent her.
at break (someone) in (v.) under break, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 46: Long as I have a buddy-buddy like you, Dewey pal, what have I to worry about?
at buddy-buddy, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 43: I can’t sit here and bull with you while the other girls are turning all the tricks.
at bull, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 15: I’ve had some bum food and my stomach won’t let me sleep.
at bum, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 27: Whenever she worked one of the burleycue houses in New Jersey, I’d go over to watch her.
at burlycue, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 57: There was a creepy-looking case sitting opposite me — looked like a junkie.
at case, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 84: Downtown just chewed my end out again.
at chew (on) someone’s ass (v.) under chew, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 66: A nice setup, so about three weeks ago Lande chucks it all.
at chuck, v.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 35: He’s such a strutting jerk, somebody is due to clip him.
at clip, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 36: I had a sudden longing for watermelon and stopped in at the corner coffeepot.
at coffee-pot (n.) under coffee, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 17: I know how it is, your first collar always seems the greatest crime.
at collar, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 108: ‘It was so hot last night I stuck me head in the ice-cube tray,’ I corn-balled.
at cornball, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 12: A poor joke that Ross didn’t crack a smile over.
at crack a smile (v.) under crack, v.2
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