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The Damned and the Destroyed choose

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[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 9: A man who takes pleasure in being called crime-buster – promises without delay to put vice on ice in Montreal.
at crime-buster, n.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 37: I’ve been rolled [...] Some crud of a lightfinger cannoned me while I was on the nod!
at cannon, v.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 37: Some dirty dip picked my pocket!
at dipper, n.2
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 39: You talk a lot. In fact, you’re the granddaddy of all goofball windbags.
at goofball, adj.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 185: I noticed a house dick I know [...] I high-signed him to follow Moss’s pal upstairs.
at high sign, v.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 9: A man who takes pleasure in being called crime-buster – promises without delay to put vice on ice in Montreal.
at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 41: You’re hooked [...] you shoot joy into your arms.
at joy, n.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 36: Loaded. Full of heroin. Carrying a roll, too.
at loaded, adj.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 185: The house dick nailed the room number, then waltzed down and checked the register.
at nail, v.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 37: I’ve been rolled [...] Some crud of a lightfinger cannoned me while I was on the nod!
at on the nod under nod, n.1
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 165: Moss would enter the wash-room and pick up the heroin package [...] but the Back Man had wasted no time devising a new [...] method of connecting for his priceless poppy-dust.
at poppy, n.1
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 156: Take a look at dressed-up you! What did you do to get those glad rags. Prowl a suite in the Ritz?
at prowl, v.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 36: Loaded. Full of heroin. Carrying a roll, too.
at roll, n.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 37: I’ve been rolled [...] Some crud of a lightfinger cannoned me while I was on the nod!
at roll, v.
[UK] K. Orvis Damned and Destroyed 37: You like singing, sing my way! Who did it? Go on, talk.
at sing, v.
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