1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 76: Keep those people in mind [...] when you’re popping off about your own serene little corner of Heaven.at pop off (at the mouth), v.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 64: A newspaper on a reform-binge is an altogether different matter.at binge, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 105: He’s bitched-off about the Bannion business.at bitched off (adj.) under bitch, v.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 199: She was a genuine Irish blow-top, if you know the type.at blowtop (n.) under blow, v.2
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 106: We break our tails getting here, so he’s late.at break one’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 56: Do you think we made you a sergeant of Detectives so you can waste your time interviewing call-girls and hotel clerks?at call-girl, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 159: They might can a cop for butting into it, but not an Inspector.at can, v.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 151: Thomas Francis Deery had once known where to pick up extra change.at change, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 117: It [i.e. the city government] was rigged like a slot machine to clip the suckers and pay off the operator.at clip, v.1
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 60: You made All-America [...] by knocking the daylights out of the Eastern teams.at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 126: I worked for my living. Living. That’s putting it very fancy.at fancy, adv.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 40: Me, the fat-tailed moneybags, so they say.at fat-tailed (adj.) under fat, adj.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 101: He was a high-flyer, I guess. Liked the atmosphere of the place.at high-flyer, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 179: This will be Greek to you, but one of our city’s finest left a note and then blew a hole through his head.at Greek, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 19: She’s angelic all day, but at night she’s a holy terror.at holy terror, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 147: The cops have that hot-shot you imported from Chicago.at hot-shot, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 152: The doc wouldn’t be able to pick that man out of a line.at line-up, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 17: Our man there is a live one from the Alabama school of journalism.at live one, n.
1953 W.P. McGivern Big Heat 40: Me, the fat-tailed moneybags, so they say.at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.