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My Lovely Executioner choose

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[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 25: This wasn’t my break [...] a break I knew nothing about, a break I didn’t need.
at break, n.2
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 74: I’m strapped. I can’t even tell you when, or how, I’ll pay you back.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 126: Just a few decks to start with [...] Just a few at a buck for a teaser.
at deck, n.4
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 134: ‘I was clean.’ ‘You spent a dirty three years.’.
at dirty, adj.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 132: You see some horrible thing, some gizmo apparition that’s called an addict.
at gizmo, n.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 133: And then like a big, wonderful breath that unlimbers the cramp everywhere, when you get the jolt.
at jolt, n.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 25: He’s rocky, he’s forty years’ worth of rocky!
at rocky, adj.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 126: He’s gonna get the shaft so he takes it out on me.
at get the shaft (v.) under shaft, n.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 126: Once in with the reefers there’s no problem finding the stickers among them.
at sticker, n.2
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 23: Then I heard Rand’s ‘stir’ voice [...] the sound we learned to make without using our lips.
at stir, adj.
[US] P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 45: I didn’t know what a wheelman was but it sounded professional. [Ibid.] 125: I didn’t know who the wheel was.
at wheelman, n.
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