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[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 There’s a bimbo I’m going to get—and I need a pack of gorillas to do it.
at bimbo, n.
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 Blind luck saved the ex-convict. Luke thrust a hand upward. Pure chance enabled him to grip The Shadow’s wrist.
at blind, adj.2
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 Well, it would take a queer duck like him to buy that old Culeth house.
at duck, n.1
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 ‘We was to hear from him later. We didn’t.’ ‘You mean Culeth got him?’ ‘That’s the way it looked.’.
at get, v.
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 I’ve learned plenty, Luke, since you went up to the big house.
at go up, v.2
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 Bill was dead; Harry kicked in just after you fellows left.
at kick in, v.1
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 It ain’t a bad idea to stand in with the bulls. That’s the way I play it nowadays.
at stand in, v.1
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 Different from six years ago, when I took my trip up the river.
at up the river under river, n.
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 The Shadow’s been smearing some mighty sweet rackets while you was in stir.
at smear, v.
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 We brought in the swag. He held it. That old geezer hatched up new jobs.
at swag, n.1
[US] ‘Maxwell Grant’ ‘Murder Marsh’ in Shadow Oct. 🌐 The Shadow’s been smearing some mighty sweet rackets while you was in stir.
at sweet, adj.1
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