1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 41: Get him cooled out now and we’ll call it a day.at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 208: He must have been easy pickings for a toothsome chippy like Gloria, who’s got an ass [...] and knows how to peddle it to her advantage.at chippie, n.1
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 208: I swear to Christ I’ll go straight from here to the stewards and the police.at to Christ under Christ, n.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 208: I’ll do my damnedest to get that horse scratched.at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 174: [of a horse] That fucker’s going to win the race.at fucker, n.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 159: ‘Did Gloria gamble a lot?’ [...] ‘I heard she was at the heavy tables, too. Baccarat, mostly.’.at heavy, adj.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 217: Watch this dumb move the jock makes on Machismo [...] Look at that! You ever seen a dumber rider.at jock, n.2
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 79: ‘It’s what we used to call a mortal lock.’ [...] ‘An animal that cannot lose the race,’ Sam said. ‘Of which there ain’t any such animals.’.at mortal lock (n.) under mortal, adj.1
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 123: He’s got his nose up your ass if you’re a winner.at have one’s nose up someone’s ass/arse (v.) under nose, n.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 123: That jerk thinks betting horses is like putting your money in the bank. If horses was boats, he’d have tapped out on the Titanic.at tap out, v.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 135: I’m standing there with two bills on his pig, a sure winner, if he don’t piss in his silks at the idea he might win.at pig, n.
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 229: His stud fee was put at only a thousand dollars a pop.at pop, n.1
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 87: You’re not going to bet real money on that stiff, are you?at stiff, n.1
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 182: For reasons of his own, Buckingham is pulling a switch here. [...] We can wonder about whether your trainer’s pulling a switch or not later [...] I cannot accept that he is cheating me or hope that the horse will pay a large price.at pull a switch (v.) under switch, n.1
1984 W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 227: Egbert [...] declared that since he had stopped gambling, he could now invest in wildcat oil wells and penny mining stocks.at wildcat, adj.