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The Godfather choose

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[US] M. Puzo Godfather 148: I’ll have to retire pretty soon. Can’t stand the aggravation, all day I get aggravation.
at aggravation, n.2
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 103: He’d be as skittish as a donkey with ants up his ass.
at ants in one’s pants under ants, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 140: His record showed his citations for gun duels with [...] strong-arm protection guys. [Ibid.] 421: A notorious pimp, dope pusher and strong-arm artist.
at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 139: He would never make trouble to get an extra payoff for himself [...] he was content for his share of the station house bag.
at bag, n.1
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 130: They got their assignments bollixed.
at ballocks (up), v.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 313: I’ve had to treat him three times for clap and once for syphilis. Freddie is the original bareback rider.
at bareback, adv.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 246: I had to bat my wife around again today, teach her who’s boss.
at bat, v.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 142: It would be a beat-up looking car but with a fine motor.
at beat-up, adj.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 390: The Corleone Family has big dough invested here.
at big, adj.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 240: He’d blown nearly fifteen grand on the track and show girl bimbos.
at bimbo, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 299: If they use a real snowbird and he gets caught, we won’t lift a finger.
at snow bird, n.2
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 145: Maybe we should let Mike blast whoever is in the car.
at blast, v.1
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 240: He would have to go crosstown to his ‘book’ to run the noontime action.
at book, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 242: He bragged [...] about how he bounced his wife around when she got snotty.
at bounce, v.1
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 63: Hey, Casanova, those broads really brushed you off.
at brush off, v.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 101: It was an important promotion, that to ‘button’ man, one not to be handed out lightly. The man had to be tough and he had to be smart.
at button man (n.) under button, n.4
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 136: I want you to get him a really ‘safe’ gun out of your collection, the ‘coldest’ one you got.
at cold, adj.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 131: ‘The balls on that son of a bitch,’ he said admiringly. ‘After he craps out last night he wants a meeting today or the next day.’.
at crap out, v.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 371: I mean committed. You know, the crazy house.
at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 94: Sollozzo is dead meat.
at dead meat, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 368: You’re a deadhead, Johnny. Christ, the tourists in this town have more fun than you do.
at deadhead, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 320: He had done this bastard a real favor and he was acting as if he’d been done dirt.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 91: That call I just got gave me dope we needed.
at dope, n.3
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 94: I don’t care if we have to fight all the five Families in New York. The Tattaglia Family is going to be wiped out. I don’t care if we all go down together.
at go down, v.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 375: The casino has been dropping money lately, which shouldn’t be.
at drop, v.2
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 309: I know the score, you’re just one of the dummies, Vegas is full of them.
at dummy, n.1
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 226: The flimflam home improvement gyp artists, the door-to-door con men were politely warned.
at flim-flam, n.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 145: I’ll spot you and put on my headlights and catch you on the fly.
at on the fly under fly, n.1
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 87: Freddie would have gotten it today with his old man but my people had strict orders not to gun him.
at get it, v.
[US] M. Puzo Godfather 55: I don’t care how many guinea Mafia goombahs come out of the woodwork.
at goombah, n.
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