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Back Alley Jungle choose

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[US] R. Marsten ‘Carrera’s Women’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 67: We each held .45s in our fists.
at forty-five, n.
[US] S. Frazee ‘Graveyard Shift’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 93: ‘You been a dress model?’ Crestone asked. ‘Yeah! Big stuff! I got tired of parading in front of bitches and their men.’.
at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
[US] C. Boeckman ‘Tough Cop’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 111: The band was fair. It wouldn’t bowl you over, but it had a good rhythm.
at bowl over, v.
[US] C. Boeckman ‘Tough Cop’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 112: Grimm took out his buzzer and flashed it.
at buzzer, n.3
[US] C. Boeckman ‘Tough Cop’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 112: Grimm took out his buzzer and flashed it.
at flash, v.1
[US] R. Turner ‘The Teacher’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 121: You are a worry wart, aren’t you?
at worry wart (n.) under worry, n.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 101: The judge was boiling and screamed this menace would never harm children again.
at boiling, adj.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 94: Most of the kids just talked about marijuana. [...] We bought two butts each.
at butt, n.1
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 96: They were all regular except for one deadhead. [...] All she did was sit in a corner, complaining.
at deadhead, n.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 101: It went over big. The judge was boiling and screamed this menace would never harm children again.
at go over big (v.) under go over, v.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 97: Harold came a half-hour later, carrying the goofers in a briefcase.
at goofer, n.2
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 101: I sort of stepped forward and raised my hand, like I wanted to make a heavy confession.
at heavy, adj.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 96: The girls organized too and branded themselves the ‘Junkettes’.
at junkette, n.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 94: Only it wasn’t like we talked them into anything—that wasn’t so! Everybody wanted to ride the broomstick.
at ride the broom (v.) under ride, v.
[US] M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 98: We were drinking cokes with shots in them.
at shot, n.1
[US] D. Sontup ‘The Guts to Kill’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 66: I let my finger tighten in the trigger. I didn’t freeze at all this time.
at freeze, v.2
[US] R. Marsten ‘Carrera’s Women’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 67: I’d sweated in the Tampico oilfields [...] socking it away a little at a time, letting it pile up for the day I could kiss Mexico goodbye.
at kiss goodbye (v.) under kiss, v.
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