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[US] T. Runyon In For Life 14: We lived almost within whoop-and-holler distance of the Hatfield-McCoy trouble.
at whoop and a holler, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 98: Aw, he tried the Dutch Route.
at Dutch act, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 33: We never tried to rob a bank during ‘amateur hour’ — at noon, when all bankers seemingly expected to be robbed and prepared for it.
at amateur hour (n.) under amateur, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 243: The knock-down-and-drag-out battles he fought from month to month.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 100: It’s probably a stew-for-beans proposition between him and that gunsel — for my money, if you’ll put you’ll take.
at if you’ll put you’ll take under put and take, n.1
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 194: Angle-shooters!
at angle-shooter (n.) under angle, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 282: I refused to have anything in the Presidio that might sound like apple-polishing.
at apple polish, v.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 270: All nut doctors are the same [...] They just want to know if you play with yourself.
at play with oneself (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 183: I caught two of them dead-bang in the act.
at dead-bang, adv.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 57: I was looking more criminal by the minute as time neared for me to go to bat for my life before the judge.
at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 100: It’s probably a stew-for-beans proposition between him and that gunsel — for my money, if you’ll put you’ll take.
at stew-for-beans, adj.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 304: Sweeney was a bear for work.
at bear for, a under bear, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 182: I put up a beef as loud as it was phony.
at beef, n.2
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 131: The Warden invited me to belly up to a full-fledged bar.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 147: High jinks in some frontier town bucket-of-blood saloon.
at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 233: At times the stony lonesomes put the blue boots to me.
at blue boots (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 69: Christ! The book, huh? That’s a lotta time.
at book, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 9: How it feels to ‘do the book’ in one.
at do the book (v.) under book, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 95: I could [...] make my own nitroglycerin from stolen dynamite and use the grease to crack a box.
at box, n.1
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 60: Instead of being blackjacked or flogged or threatened with a sweat box, I was de-ironed and de-escorted.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 95: The box men [...] were run-of-the-mill, reasonably skilled men who made big scores seldom.
at boxman, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 101: Why don’t you get yourself a boy and settle down?
at boy, n.2
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 99: I’ve seen the patient papas carrying sacks of canteen stuff for their boys — also known as bronchos, gunsels, kazoonies, kids, brats, and, mostly, punks.
at brat, n.1
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 93: Training to steal more efficiently once they hit the bricks again.
at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 68: Whatcha bring down, Shorty?
at bring, v.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 99: I’ve seen the patient papas carrying sacks of canteen stuff for their boys — also known as bronchos, gunsels, kazoonies, kids, brats, and, mostly, punks.
at bronco, n.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 289: An innovation that had me bug-eyed when I first heard of it.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 270: The Mainline [...] teased them about being bugs.
at bugs, adj.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 70: He looked like a bully from way back, but he never bulldozed me.
at bulldose, v.
[US] T. Runyon In For Life 115: They finally had a chance to show what they thought of guards without being burned for doing so.
at burn, v.
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