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[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 94: String along with him. Ask him to let you in on what other marvelous deeds he’s going to put across.
at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 4: She was down and out, a long way from anywhere.
at down-and-out, adj.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 26: You miss those penny-ante punks you thought were big shots in Chi.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 159: The boys had put away forever five of Tim’s River Rats.
at put away, v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 17: And the sap dames who get their hair phoneyed up pay the bad news.
at bad news, n.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 145: [It] houses more speakeasies, dope dens, toke joints, badger apartments.
at badger, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 130: Some good-lookin’ chippy at you to get in wit’ you till you’re off your nut over her an’ trust her, an’—bam!
at bam!, excl.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 103: Anybody I can’t jack up I can bang off.
at bang, v.2
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 3: You came in here carryin’ the banner and singin’ the blues.
at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 149: [He] was just tossing off a barbed drink.
at barbed wire, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 3: I guess I can battle it out after I never glom you again.
at battle, v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 3: You beat a blowoff in Chi.
at beat, v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 11: If a ‘rap’ threatened, and this was a Federal offense, hard to square or beat, the ‘monkeys’ would be jettisoned without hesitation.
at beat, v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 60: How’d you like a swell bust in the beezer?
at beezer, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 2: You got no call for the big-time camps since the market went Democratic.
at big-time, adj.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 4: Now she was in the nest of the big dough.
at big, adj.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 7: The Big Boy, as they called him (and it was abbreviated to B. B.) rarely came there.
at big boy, n.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 26: From tipsy teamsters to the top shots of Chicago’s underworld, they had given her the chase and the work.
at big shot, n.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 41: You’ve done a bit in stir.
at do a/one’s bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 194: Silk would never bleat.
at bleat, v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 7: The names on the door were blinds.
at blind, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 24: Downstairs is a dress joint—it’s run by a blister named Imogene.
at blister, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 150: [He] nervously spun out the bottle of the blistering nepenthese of a hell that held no terror for Tim.
at blistering, adj.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 9: She didn’t tell him that it was she who had blown Goldie’s belly out with his own gilded gats.
at blow out, v.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 3: You came in here carryin’ the banner and singin’ the blues.
at sing the blues (v.) under blues, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 72: He had a murder rap that sent him up for the book.
at book, n.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 4: In Chicago the rackets were run by a bunch of boss hoodlums.
at boss, adj.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 26: Oh, bottle that in your good-lookin’ mush.
at bottle up, v.
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 2: He was laid away in a fifty-grand stiff-box.
at box, n.1
[US] J. Lait Gangster Girl 148: We can find what flat dem bozos come out of.
at bozo, n.1
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