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The Big Blowdown choose

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[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 162: Most people don’t ask a thing. They make like nothing’s wrong, or they look away.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 292: ‘You just don’t give a good goddam, right?’.
at not give a good goddam, v.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 248: You had me dead to rights, right up on me. You coulda beat the hell out of me.
at -a, sfx
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 211: She’s all the way hopped.
at all the way, adv.
[US] (con. 1948) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 104: The best butcher in town [...] a knife artist like no one in Farrell had ever seen.
at -artist, sfx
[US] (con. 1946) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 64: Guy kills a few Japs [...] he thinks his asshole squirts perfume.
at think one’s asshole squirts perfume (v.) under asshole, n.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 207: A B-girl had managed to get some sucker to buy her a watered-down highball.
at B-girl, n.
[US] (con. 1933) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 21: All you Greeks are in bed with Roosevelt.
at in bed with (adj.) under bed, n.
[US] (con. 1946) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 93: The old bird behind the counter had to get up out of his chair.
at old bird, n.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 272: Only loved the niggers, and the white niggers, and anybody else who could come up with eight bits. Blah, blah, blah.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 210: Morgan [...] had sent her over to that colored reefer party at the blind pig off 7th.
at blind pig, n.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 157: A couple more beers down here, youngblood.
at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 147: And here he was, a beat cop, wearing the same lousy blues given to him when he joined the force.
at blues, n.2
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 157: Williams handed Florek a record [...] ‘Here ya go, man, put this one on the box.’.
at box, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 29: Movies set in the first war, dogfight movies mostly, smiling, long-scarved flyboys with Errol Flynn moustaches.
at fly-boy, n.2
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 272: I was just wonderin’, was it you who chilled them broads?
at broad, n.2
[US] (con. 1946) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 63: Burke himself had seen no ‘action,’ as he was on the brown side of thirty.
at on the brown side of under brown, adj.2
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 250: The tender, who’s nothing more than a pimp who builds drinks on the side.
at build, v.
[US] (con. 1946) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 59: Goddamn, did she look put together that night. A brick shithouse don’t begin to describe it.
at built like a brick shithouse (adj.) under built, adj.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 200: Don’t be such a bump on a log, Pete.
at like a bump on a log (adv.) under bump, n.2
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 286: It’s a lead-pipe cinch that Stefanos and the rest of them buried Bender. So now we’ve got to save face and bury the Greeks.
at bury, v.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 285: I give this guy the business and find out about the girl.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 129: Those whad’ya-call-its.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 151: Can it.
at can it (v.) under can, v.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 146: One or two of them qualified as drool cases or rubber-room candidates.
at case, n.1
[US] (con. 1933) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 18: This Chevy, this was the cat’s meow.
at cat’s meow, n.
[US] (con. 1959) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 310: ‘They [i.e. a baseball team] gonna do anything this year?’ ‘They’ll end up in the cellar, like last year.’.
at in the cellar under cellar, n.
[US] (con. 1946) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 71: Two minutes and change into the first round [...] Can you believe it?
at change, n.
[US] (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 254: Why, you lookin’ to bust your cherry or somethin’, sonny?
at bust a cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] (con. 1933) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 10: He knew he would do it, on account of being a chicken in front of Steve Mamakos.
at chicken, n.
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