1996 (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.
1996 (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 292: ‘You just don’t give a good goddam, right?’.at not give a good goddam, v.
1996 (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
1996 (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
1996 (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.
1996 (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.
1996 (con. 1933) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 21: All you Greeks are in bed with Roosevelt.at in bed with (adj.) under bed, n.
1996 (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.
1996 (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.
1996 (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.
1996 (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 157: A couple more beers down here, youngblood.at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
1996 (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
1996 (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
1996 (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
1996 (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 272: I was just wonderin’, was it you who chilled them broads?at broad, n.2
1996 (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
1996 (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.
1996 (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.
1996 (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
1996 (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.
1996 (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.
1996 (con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 129: Those whad’ya-call-its.at what-d’you-call-it, n.
1996 (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
1996 (con. 1933) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 18: This Chevy, this was the cat’s meow.at cat’s meow, n.
1996 (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.
1996 (con. 1946) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 71: Two minutes and change into the first round [...] Can you believe it?at change, n.
1996 (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
1996 (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.