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[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 58: Trantham knew a thing or two about scared punks.
at know a thing or two, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 73: The extension phone in one hand, that big silver blaster in the other.
at blaster, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 28: The first little blitz you pull, cops are going to be converging on this town.
at blitz, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 38: I don’t like the idea of bum-rapping a snatch.
at bum rap, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 137: They’d just better deliver, that’s all. I’m through playing button-button.
at button, n.4
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 38: Maybe they already decided to write us off [...] Maybe they figure Boston is the least costly place to cold deck the guy.
at cold-deck, v.2
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 130: The old men want this area cooled.
at cool, v.2
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 75: This guy Bolan is raging crazy furious.
at crazy, adv.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 95: Books Figarone was no dumb shit.
at dumbshit, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 85: A pound and a half of ‘goop’ — plastics explosives.
at goop, n.2
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 87: He could pass as a Figarone hardman.
at hard man, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 41: What’s been going on here? [...] You’re the head cock, you damn sure better know.
at head cock (n.) under head, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 60: He [...] probably had them running hell-for-breakfast all over the place.
at hell for breakfast (adv.) under hell, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 85: He had the Beretta and the AutoMag hawgleg.
at hogleg, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 12: ‘Whatta you want here with me?’ ‘Figure it out,’ the ice man suggested.
at iceman, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 67: Just remember, I get first jump.
at jump, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 126: They’re handing out indictments up the kazoo.
at kazoo, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 145: He clipped on a couple of grenades, just for kickers, then got into the topcoat.
at for kickers under kicker, n.6
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 90: Squealing tires dug pavement in a fast take-off.
at take-off, n.2
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 52: For Johnny and Val, it had to be a total rub-out.
at rub(-out), n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 76: What if the pigeons could finger me? Have you forgot what the rap is for kidnapping.
at pigeon, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 133: Knocking over two ‘powder factories’—wholesale distribution centres for hard narcotics.
at powder factory (n.) under powder, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 112: Some other cars had pulled in behind me, but most of them were going on around, rubbernecking.
at rubberneck, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 129: He’s blaming this whole snafu on you boys.
at s.n.a.f.u., n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 81: He got his first big shot in the arm [...] when he negotiated a ‘disposal contract’ with the Mafia bosses.
at shot in the arm (n.) under shot, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 39: The guy’s a slicker.
at slicker, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 38: I don’t like the idea of bum-rapping a snatch.
at snatch, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 61: I’ve been following his campaign like a fan. I think maybe I’ve got him snockered now. I think I know what his pattern will be in this area.
at snockered, adj.
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 28: If this engineer puts the squeeze on either Johnny or Val, he’ll learn anything they might be able to tell him.
at put the squeeze (on) (v.) under squeeze, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 132: He had lived with the constant vision of Mafia turkeymeat lurking at the threshold of his thinking mind.
at turkey, n.1
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