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[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 70: Go on and shoot, you this, that and the other!
at this, that and the other, n.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 182: Now that’s a square apple for you, see?
at square apple (n.) under apple, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 197: He’ll get blasted pullin’ a job, or else he’ll get put away for plenty years.
at put away, v.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 187: When I tell him that he gets his back up.
at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 63: This little jig was screwy — not violent, not bad, but just simple.
at bad, adj.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 194: He’d dug up a couple of phoney-baloney witnesses to swear this was all a frame-up.
at phoney-baloney, adj.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 201: If he hollers to the captain, he gets a first-class bawlin’ out.
at bawling out, n.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 194: I’ll bet that kid was very beat.
at beat, adj.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 206: If you try to put the bee on guys like that [i.e. con-men], the bee will turn round and bite you, an’ serve you right.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 140: Some of ’em got beefs just as bum as your beef.
at bum beef (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 17: The new man [...] escorted by a pair of beefy sheriff’s deputies.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 178: He left the Row to go to the death cell, known to us as the Birdcage.
at birdcage, n.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 213: God damn and blast you, you black bastard.
at blast, v.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 196: If you do give [a sucker] an even break, he’ll steal you blind.
at blind, adv.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 108: Altogether it [i.e. a prison job] is very bonny-roo, or would be if it weren’t in the Hole.
at bonaroo, adj.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 79: The effect on the rest of the prison of a break or a disturbance is hard to describe.
at break, n.2
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 23: The bull in that tower is one of the centers of consciousness on the Condemned Row.
at bull, n.5
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 105: The knives [...] are sharp and pointed [...] and fully capable of doing your business.
at business, n.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 47: Tobacco, soap, pen points, thread, soda capsules, C.C. pills.
at c.c., n.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 197: The real income, the cakes-an’-coffee dough, come from the little fellows like me.
at cakes-and-coffee (adj.) under cake, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 194: If Mike would stage this caper [...] then the kid would break it up.
at caper, n.2
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 92: Mainline chow is another matter.
at chow, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 138: Oh, for Christ’s sake!
at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 193: The woman’s got the money on her, an’ she comes through with it without no trouble.
at come through, v.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 230: Fish [...] have had no chance to become con-wise.
at conwise (adj.) under con, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 63: Then somebody cut loose a load of buckshot, and just about tore him in two.
at cut loose, v.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 195: You holler bum beef, an’ it makes the bulls mad, an’ it makes the ’cutors mad.
at cutor, n.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 28: All right, God damn you, get up here!
at god-damn, v.
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 107: It got me down [...] sitting there with a gun pointed at my head.
at get someone down (v.) under down, adv.1
[US] D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 187: He’s scared to tell the wife he dropped the fifty in a crap game.
at drop, v.2
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