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[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 95: Six of the men had air-tight alibis.
at airtight, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 133: Hey, Max, this ain’t my baby.
at baby, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 64: A newspaper on a reform-binge is an altogether different matter.
at binge, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 105: He’s bitched-off about the Bannion business.
at bitched off (adj.) under bitch, v.
[US] 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
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 104: Lagana was boiling about something.
at boiling, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 159: They might can a cop for butting into it, but not an Inspector.
at can, v.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 26: A guy tom-catting around while his wife’s away.
at tom cat, v.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 151: Thomas Francis Deery had once known where to pick up extra change.
at change, n.
[US] 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
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 67: He was acting queerly, ignoring some basic cop-rules.
at cop, adj.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 37: ‘When did she leave?’ ‘Damned if I know, Sergeant.’.
at damn, v.
[US] 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.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 152: The doc wouldn’t be able to pick that man out of a line.
at doc, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 126: I worked for my living. Living. That’s putting it very fancy.
at fancy, adv.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 40: Me, the fat-tailed moneybags, so they say.
at fat-tailed (adj.) under fat, adj.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 101: He was a high-flyer, I guess. Liked the atmosphere of the place.
at high-flyer, n.
[US] 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.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 42: It was a long hike back to the Hall.
at hike, n.1
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 19: She’s angelic all day, but at night she’s a holy terror.
at holy terror, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 147: The cops have that hot-shot you imported from Chicago.
at hot-shot, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 130: He held an ace kicker to a pair of tens.
at kicker, n.1
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 185: If this is straight, the lid’s going off.
at lid, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 152: The doc wouldn’t be able to pick that man out of a line.
at line-up, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 17: Our man there is a live one from the Alabama school of journalism.
at live one, n.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 141: He told you I’m messed up for good, didn’t he?
at messed (up), adj.
[US] W.P. McGivern Big Heat 40: Me, the fat-tailed moneybags, so they say.
at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
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