1960 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
1960 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.
1960 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
1960 P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 134: ‘I was clean.’ ‘You spent a dirty three years.’.at dirty, adj.
1960 P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 132: You see some horrible thing, some gizmo apparition that’s called an addict.at gizmo, n.
1960 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.
1960 P. Rabe My Lovely Executioner (2006) 25: He’s rocky, he’s forty years’ worth of rocky!at rocky, adj.
1960 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.
1960 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
1960 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.
1960 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.