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[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 113: Bolan’s (ha-ha) Indian had pulled the twenty-four-hour cop’s fat out of the fire. For the moment, at any rate.
at fat is in the fire, (all) the, phr.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 389: I could’ve plowed a furrow right up fat-ass’s behind.
at fat-arse, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 99: Up your butt, brother.
at up your arse!, excl.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 151: You figure white-hair is the big daddy.
at big daddy, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 79: Pick up the wagon down at the blacktop.
at blacktop (n.) under black, adj.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 39: You want to get yourself a blue suiter, Chopper?
at blue suit (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 80: God, it went great, great, and I think we got another boodle.
at boodle, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 173: They’re buzzed by the fuzz. No chance, no chance. I’m breaking.
at break, v.2
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 42: Gadgets has bugs all over Giordano’s house.
at bug, n.4
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 189: I couldn’t bug off and leave Tommy to solve that problem alone.
at bug off, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 56: Emilio Giordano would not be any man’s funny bunny. [Ibid.] 57: If a damn dumb sergeant – a deserter at that – a common thief and gunman thought he could make Emilio Giordano roll over and play funny-bunny for him then [...] that damn dumb sergeant was going to die with a Giordano grapefuit up his ass.
at funny bunny, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 15: Bolan’s .32 was in his hand, but it seemed small comfort in the face of the burpgun that was methodically spraying the area about him.
at burpgun (n.) under burp, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 20: ‘You need some reinforcements, Mack.’ ‘Yeah, I’ll buy that.’.
at buy, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 20: You figure the Mafia is in a fat-cat position around here?
at fat-cat, adj.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 16: Another chattergun had joined the action.
at chattergun (n.) under chatter, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 189: You knew he was about to gun me down. Why didn’t you wait another second? Then you could have chopped him and had a clear field.
at chop, v.2
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 87: Some guys are running around [...] and shooting up the place with choppers.
at chopper, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 114: ‘Let’s chow up first,’ [...] they went off together toward the kitchen.
at chow, v.2
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 68: The big cars eating the pavement at a steady eighty-mile-per-hour clip.
at clip, n.3
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 72: You and Horse pour on the coals, get up here as quick as you can.
at pour (on) the coal, v.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 123: He’s giving them crumbs and making a killing for himself.
at crumbs, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 15: He smiled at a gargantuan-chested cutie in a technically topless swimsuit.
at cutie, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 101: These things are too damn hard to come by. I don’t leave them laying around in a dead drop.
at dead, adj.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 97: Its all organization money, every nickel of it. What’s he got to cry about? The discs were mine, not his.
at disc, n.
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 112: He had over reacted to Braddock’s decision for Mafia drag.
at drag, n.5
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 160: ‘Believe you dropped about ten with that burst,’ he said.
at drop, v.3
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 74: Spare me the dumbhead details.
at dumbhead (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 97: That was family money.
at family, n.1
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 152: Maybe they’ve flipped. Combat fatigue.
at flip, v.4
[US] D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 180: ‘Wait for us there.’ ‘Ten-four.’ Lyons threw down the mike.
at ten-four, phr.
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