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My Life out of Prison choose

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[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 285: I got one of the other reporters to do it, because [...] if S—— learned that I was talking to him he might ‘clam’.
at clam (up), v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 300: Take off those cuffs.
at cuffs, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 283: A detective’s badge had been ‘flashed’.
at flash, v.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 228: I was told you’d flopped to the cops.
at flop, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 78: The next time you start up a business without permission you’ll get yours, and get it good and plenty.
at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 212: You’re getting to be a regular gloom.
at gloom, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 78: You’re getting yourself in dead wrong writing this junk for the papers, [...] we’ll make it mighty hot for you.
at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 57: I discussed Donald Lowrie, and in one instance ‘knocked’ him because I wanted to hear the other man sing Lowrie’s praises in a still higher key.
at knock, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 166: Many of the old ‘lifers’.
at lifer, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 15: He had seen ‘ex-cons’ kneeling before safes with [...] ‘soup’ and other implements and ‘persuaders’ necessary for forcible entrance.
at persuader, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 229: If you want to keep thinking I’m phony, I can’t help it, but you’re wrong.
at phoney, adj.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 78: The next time you start up a business without permission you’ll get yours, and get it good and plenty.
at plenty, adv.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 234: He had peeked into every closet [...] It was the ‘prowler’ instinct manifesting itself.
at prowler, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 93: She noticed a ‘sighteeing’ auto and asked me what it was. ‘They are vulgarly known as “rubber-neck wagons”,’ I vouchsafed.
at rubberneck wagon (n.) under rubberneck, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 298: They’ll probably let him off with a five-spot if he pleads guilty.
at five-spot (n.) under -spot, sfx
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 236: It beat that twenty-five spot I did back in Sing Sing all holler.
at -spot, sfx
[US] D. Lowrie My Life out of Prison 78: You’re getting yourself in dead wrong writing this junk for the papers, [...] we’ll make it mighty hot for you.
at get in wrong (v.) under wrong, adv.
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