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Donnie Brasco choose

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[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 362: Who’s gonna give a fuck if they find another dead wiseguy?
at give a fuck, v.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 118: Mira never spent his own money. Everything was ‘on the arm’ — free with him.
at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 306: What I don’t want [...] is jacking around.
at jack around, v.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 330: Don’t play around with the big boys.
at big boy, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 348: You made some fucking boo-boo, pal. You got me sick over it.
at boo-boo, n.4
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 39: He was a good bull-thrower [...] and could really handle himself.
at bull thrower (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 357: They thought I was clipped, you know? When I was missing? They had me fucking dead, these motherfuckers.
at clipped, adj.2
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 318: How the fuck could you invite your own sweetheart that you live with, then next day want to bring a cunt in?
at cunt, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 346: When you get on the table and they throw curves at you, you’re not gonna answer them.
at throw a curve (v.) under curve, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 290: He said that he could do business if our source would ‘front’ 200 pounds and wait for payment for a week.
at front, v.3
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 269: I’ll blow the fuck everybody up.
at fuck, the, phr.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 348: First guy fucks with a pistol, they’ll break up the whole crew.
at fuck with, v.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 266: He owns Tampa. This is what the fuck I’m making a move for.
at what the fuck, phr.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 270: I’m always gonna give him a piece of my end. I don’t want him to think that I’m fucking him.
at fuck, v.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 83: ‘That broad wouldn’t have no fugazy diamonds in her house. We had information the broad didn’t have no fake jewelry. It’s three fucking carats!’ ‘It’s a fugazy,’ I said.
at fugazi, adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 349: One’s kicking back to Trinny a G-note a week.
at G-note (n.) under G, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 332: Lefty’s gonna say we gave you twenty-five and you must have glommed the other twenty.
at glom, v.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 322: ‘A fucking New York guinea, aren’t you?’ ‘Well, I am from New York and I am Italian.’.
at guinea, n.1
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 306: Everybody is using the horse up there. When you gonna know about the H?
at H, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 376: I’ll come running. You want me heavy, just say, ‘Come heavy’.
at heavy, adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 358: Tell Tony bring a tie and a shirt. Not dress like a fucking Hoosier from Pennsylvania.
at hoosier, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 26: He taught me how to get into a vehicle using a tool called a ‘slim jim’ that you slide down between the outer door panel and the glass.
at Slim Jim, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 306: ‘If you want five hundred thousand, I got ’ludes.’ ‘What they call those “lemons”?’ ‘It depends. They’re all homemade now. Usually your lemon has Valium in it.’.
at lemon, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 359: ‘That’s good. Sonny happy now?’ ‘Forget about it, lit up like Luna Park.’.
at lit (up) like Broadway (adj.) under lit (up), adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 264: He’s gonna introduce me to that guy there who’s going to introduce me to the main guy.
at main guy (n.) under main, adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 353: They could say they recognize us as mob guys.
at mob guy (n.) under mob, adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 134: No real wiseguys wear mustaches [...] except some of the old mustache petes.
at moustache Pete (n.) under moustache, n.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 282: At least nobody else will get stuck with this piece-of-shit transmitter.
at piece-of-shit, adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 137: I couldn’t be sure what was cooking in that off-the-wall mind of his.
at off the wall, adj.
[US] (con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 294: Somebody ratted him out. [...] Somebody in the neighborhood had spotted the lion [...] and called the police.
at rat out (v.) under rat, v.2
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