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A Stone for Danny Fisher choose

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[US] H. Robbins Stone for Danny Fisher 187: Champion! I was as high as a kite. [...] I was on a jag, walking on air.
at on a jag under jag, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 299: This time yuh try an’ run me aroun’ an’ yuh’re deader’n hell.
at dead as..., adj.
[US] (con. 1930) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 55: I’m strictly a blouse man myself.
at blouse, n.
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 254: ‘Unnerstan’?’ [...] ‘I coppish,’ I answered.
at capeesh, phr.
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 295: You lost nothing on the deal. It was me that got cleaned.
at cleaned (out), adj.
[US] (con. 1925) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 19: ‘Jew son of a bitch,’ Paul shouted.
at Jew, adj.
[US] (con. 1925) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 19: Okay, Jew-baby, go get him!
at Jew baby (n.) under Jew, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 282: He was a salesman for one of the big cigarette-jobbers who specialized for the most part in big black-market deals.
at jobber, n.2
[US] H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 106: She was a strange kid for a luksh. Usually they were loud and tough and you could tell they were Italian as soon as they opened their mouths.
at lukshen, n.
[US] (con. 1936) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 188: Maxie Fields is a racket boy.
at racket man (n.) under racket, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 284: The truck’s loaded and ready to roll.
at roll, v.
[US] (con. 1925) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 37: I tol’ yuh, no rough-housing.
at roughhouse, v.
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 285: It’s fifty grand! Fifty thousand Uncle Sam dollars!
at Uncle Sam, n.1
[US] (con. 1934) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 135: Fields was the big man in the neighbourhood. Politics, gambling, shylocking – the works.
at shylock, v.
[US] (con. 1934) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 135: You don’t slough off a guy like Maxie Fields down here [...] Fields was the big man in the neighbourhood. Politics, gambling, shylocking – the works.
at slough off (v.) under slough, v.
[US] (con. 1934) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 93: Don’t grab no junk; only stuff we can sell. [...] As soon as you made your snatch, blow.
at snatch, n.
[US] (con. 1934) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 99: Maybe she was giving me a stand-up. I’d give her five more minutes.
at stand-up, n.
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 251: ‘I just spent a week casin’ this set-up,’ I protested. ‘For fifteen grand it’s a steal.’.
at steal, n.
[US] (con. 1925) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 38: The sub came up with the gloves.
at sub, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 295: I was tooken [...] I got hijacked on the way and dumped in a ditch.
at take, v.
[US] (con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 296: Tell him I got a hundred grand wrap-up.
at wrap-up (n.) under wrap, n.2
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