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[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 66: Can’t you tell. Touie? He’s as queer as a six-bit coin.
at ...a three-dollar bill under queer as..., adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 60: Sybil would have loved this kind of b.s.
at b.s., n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 149: A private badge can’t operate unless he keeps on the good side of the police.
at badge, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 122: Honey, I don’t think anything. I’m like a bear — nowhere.
at just like the bear, ain’t nowhere under bear, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 162: I ought to get into a bitchy dress—something real seductive.
at bitchy, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 164: Soon as Kay plants the bug, I’ll give three short blasts of the car horn—meaning the bug is sending okay.
at bug, n.4
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 15: I’m a TV bug.
at bug, n.4
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 157: He seemed such a buster of an idea boy.
at buster, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 95: Old Ma hasn’t all her buttons.
at not have all one’s buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 40: Today you can’t make your pork chops unless you’re a regular mechnical whiz.
at pork chops, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 26: It’s too early for cornballing. What do you want?
at cornball, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 108: I stopped ‘downtown’ for a paper and a change of underwear.
at downtown, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 15: And your clothes—they’re the end. You’re really togged down.
at end, the, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 41: He could make a fair living, even big money, if he wanted to be a rat and labor fink.
at fink, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 14: A hick town could be either a wonderful hideout or a trap.
at hick town (n.) under hick, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 148: Ted, I’m jammed up. I want you to do me two favors.
at jammed up, adv.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 16: Honey, why don’t you cut the phony jive talk.
at jive talk, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 113: Sorry, boy, I shouldn’t have run my mouth like that.
at run one’s mouth (off) (v.) under mouth, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 40: Actually he’s a rough oscar and far from stupid—as a dick.
at Oscar, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 14: I’d stand out and somebody would peg me as ‘the’ Negro being hunted by the New York police.
at peg, v.4
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 15: Played football a lot of years ago. Had a pigskin scholarship.
at pigskin, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 30: Rap him, send him up.
at rap, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 11: ‘I’m on rubber,’ I said, nodding at the Jaguar.
at rubber, n.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 113: Sorry, boy, I shouldn’t have run my mouth like that.
at run one’s mouth (off) (v.) under run, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 66: How do you like going stag?
at go stag (v.) under stag, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 20: She was cooking and busting suds in a white house.
at bust suds (v.) under suds, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 15: And your clothes — they’re the end. You’re really togged down.
at togged down (adj.) under togged, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 151: He’d love to shoot off his trap in front of her.
at shoot (off) one’s trap (v.) under trap, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 127: Watch your fat tongue, heavy.
at watch one’s lip (v.) under watch, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 16: Mostly wild-cat jobs.
at wildcat, adj.
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