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Rumble on the Docks choose

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[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 93: Go with Rocky, and make him ace the rumble.
at ace, v.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 72: The guys knew he only went for girls with action.
at action, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 110: This Marchesi case was a pain in the ass.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 137: Aw! Blow it out, Sully. You think —.
at blow it out your ass!, excl.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 285: He can go dragging his ass round the Hook if he thinks he can do better.
at drag one’s ass, v.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 134: She goes assing around telling everybody my business.
at ass around under ass, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 87: ‘You think they backed out?’ said Sully.
at back out (v.) under back, v.2
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 41: ‘Is he bagged?’ ‘What do you think?’ Dotty said.
at bagged, adj.3
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 75: His eyes moved to Wimpy. ‘How about the beanstalk?’.
at beanstalk, n.1
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 21: And he wasn’t like his mother, taking his father’s blows and gum-beating all the time.
at gum-beating, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 47: ‘Yellowguts! [...] Get down to the pier.’.
at yellow belly, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 98: Jimmy clipped him alongside the ear with the billy.
at billy, n.4
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 39: Imagine two bindle-stiffs [...] rolling Joe Brindo.
at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 131: You tell my friend Brindo, I got plenty of buckshot, but no snowbirds to shoot at.
at snow bird, n.2
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 92: He wants no bopping on our side.
at bop, v.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 17: If they [i.e. the police] see the three of us knocking around, they gonna break our hump.
at break someone’s hump (v.) under break, v.1
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 315: What a brown-nose job the bulls can do when you are nice.
at brown nose, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 126: A Puerto Rican buck, sizing up the dames.
at buck, n.1
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 77: Jimmy had a bum knee.
at bum, adj.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 127: ‘You Wimp’s friends, no?’ ‘I don’t know [...] after he made bums of us today.’.
at make a bum of (v.) under bum, n.3
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 22: In the early morning darkness, they were always bound to bunk into a shenango.
at bunk into, v.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 171: Would he hold up? Or would he start singing, waiting for the last burn in death row?
at burn, n.1
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 185: This was what the big guys called candy.
at candy, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 156: Alphonse Moulin [...] French-Canuck just down from the Michigan woods.
at Canuck, n.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 157: Brindo almost stripped the gears and smashed the clock with his fist.
at clock, n.1
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 251: I told you not to bring that cokey bastard.
at cokey, adj.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 286: It’s that cokey kid from Herring and White.
at cokey, adj.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 92: That’s what you call a creamy job!
at creamy, adj.
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 174: He was a man of his word and never crossed anyone.
at cross, v.1
[US] F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 254: None of yuh guys knew him, so what the hell yuh crying about.
at cry, v.
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