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Four Novels by Horace McCoy choose

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[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 39: Ruby came back into the race, looking all in too.
at all in, adj.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 23: I’ll string along with James and Ruby.
at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 23: That Alabama is corn-fed. Look at that beam.
at beam, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 8: I got a bellyful of moving pictures.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 45: Looks like Socks is selling her a bill of goods.
at bill of goods, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 15: ‘How much?’ [...] ‘Feels like about six bits.’.
at six bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 32: Not even the girls can go to the can when she’s around.
at can, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 39: There’s a charley horse on Couple 22.
at charley horse, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 45: We turned him down cold.
at cold, adv.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 9: I decided to [...] make the cops take care of me.
at cop, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (UK edn only) 89: Why, that dame is the biggest bitch west of the Mississippi River.
at dame, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 7: Damn that bus.
at damn, v.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels 1983 9: A Syrian who had a hot-dog place.
at hot dog, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 17: When a contestant falls out and has to go to the pit, the partner will have to make two laps.
at fall out, v.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 47: The only time we need you you’re sitting on your fanny.
at fanny, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 19: Can you feature that?
at feature, v.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (UK edn only) 44: ‘I told you to keep your mouth shut, didn’t I?’ he said to Gloria. ‘You take a flying ----’.
at take a flying fuck (v.) under flying fuck, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) Ch. 13: ‘—— you,’ Gloria said.
at fuck you!, excl.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 57: ‘Does this mean we’ll have to close up?’ ‘I don’t think so [...] It just means we’ll have to try to grease somebody.’.
at grease, v.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 17: I had about two minutes more of rest before the next two-hour grind.
at grind, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 84: If it was Number Two you had to do you had to rush because come hell or high water, you had only five minutes.
at come hell or high water under hell or high water, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 18: You go to hell, you big ape.
at go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 124: You’re hipped on the subject of horses.
at hipped, adj.2
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 74: You’re hipped on the subject of waves.
at hipped, adj.2
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 20: Boy, am I hoodooed!
at hoodoo, adj.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 25: With all of it running around loose [...] a guy would have better sense.
at it, n.1
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 10: I was so weak I used to have to crawl to the john.
at john, n.2
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 21: ‘Nix, Socks,’ the first detective said.
at nix!, excl.
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 19: She’s a nut about these things [i.e. dance marathons].
at be a nut about (v.) under nut, n.2
[US] H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 26: I’ll be all right if I can get out of town before the cops pick me up.
at pick up, v.
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