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[US] E. Leonard Glitz 129: Don’t go back, Fran, it’s all artsy-craftsy over there now.
at artsy-craftsy, adj.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 128: The guy’s comped to the eyeballs, the whole shot.
at whole bang shoot, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 75: She’ll put the fucking people to sleep. Couple of sets like that, they go beddy-bye.
at beddy-bye, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 29: This little girl, she’s leading you around by your bicho.
at bicho, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 174: You want another Bloody?
at bloody, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 61: They said he got capped by a junkie.
at cap, v.7
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 202: He fixed two rum-and-cokes then, emptying a street-lude cap into Iris’s – eighty milligrams of Valium to take off her edge – and brought their drinks out to the living room.
at cap, n.4
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 129: I don’t mean the celebs and the legit high rollers.
at celeb, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 137: Maybe the head Tuna didn’t like you cutting in on his act.
at cut in, v.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 276: All this hip shit [...] The casino business, all this razzle-dazzle. All the people thinking they know everything.
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 2: He should have [...] screamed in the guy’s face to hit the deck, now, or he was fucking dead.
at hit the deck (v.) under deck, n.1
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 229: Whoever was with her the night she was killed, that’s the guy you want to shake down, for Christ sake.
at shake down, v.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 354: Very tight with the exec, you understand, had worked for him before.
at exec, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 177: I’ve known her ever since Vegas. She’s really smart, you know, to get where she is. Up there in the Eye in the Sky. [Ibid.] 244: Look down through one-way smoked glass at the casino floor [...] ‘The Eye in the Sky,’ Nancy said.
at eye in the sky (n.) under eye, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 252: Didn’t matter if he got dumped on or made to look a fool by some Eyetie.
at Eyetie, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 193: They never go into any detail, they say here’s the name of the fink, do him.
at fink, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 8: Pissing in an alley when a girl comes along? Pretend you don’t see her and give her a flash?
at flash, n.1
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 151: She decides to do some business there and gets a freak wants to ball her hanging off the fucking balcony or some fucking thing.
at freak, n.1
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 257: How you doing, Ricky? You getting much?
at getting much? under get, v.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 122: These guys, they get on their roll, I don’t even know what they’re playing. They’re spazzed out on ganja anyway, they don’t give a shit, they’re gone.
at gone, adj.1
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 121: They’re beating on everything but a washboard and a gutbucket.
at gutbucket, n.1
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 113: Kind of a tough monkey, huh?
at tough guy, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 149: Slow husky voice with that South Philly street guinea accent, that tough-guy shit they learned when they were kids.
at tough-guy, adj.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 148: Had he stayed there in Ismailiya, man his size, he’d be loading ships ’stead of [...] working for this little Hymie fool.
at Hymie, adj.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 114: Rainy night, wind blowing [...] you want to go a few blocks on Pacific, you hop a jitney, six bits.
at jitney, n.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 260: She told him about Tommy’s drinking, his macho jock attitude.
at jock, adj.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 115: The macaronis are shooting each other.
at macaroni, n.1
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 211: I get mellow when I drink. I mel-low.
at mellow, adj.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 306: The narky-looking cop from Miami was sitting in his office and he was trying very hard to be cordial.
at narky, adj.
[US] E. Leonard Glitz 34: Iris said,‘No way, José.’.
at no way!, excl.
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