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[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 Dan Hammerton, big shot gambler and bolita king.
at big-shot, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 You and your blatter might be interested in a brand new, fresh-off-the-gun murder.
at bladder, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 A high-flyer named Blinky Dinky — known to police as Roscoe Timms — was bounced off with a .38.
at bounce, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 Look, clunkhead, you can get away with this butting-in via fiction on the radio, [...] but in real life, it doesn’t work.
at clunkhead, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 A high-flyer named Blinky Dinky—known to police as Roscoe Timms—was bounced off with a .38.
at high-flyer, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 A swell ginzo, if you ask me; his idea of a tip was another guest’s idea of a week’s rent.
at ginzo, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 I’ve had enough of this Jackie Gleason and Burns and Allen liverwurst.
at Hans wurst, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 All you have to do is keep your mug shut and go blind.
at mug, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 If you dare touch anything, you mullethead, I’ll toss you headfirst into the can.
at mullethead, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 I have no doubt that this mug was wiped out.
at wipe out, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 ‘Naturally,’ said the pet patootie, with his best snooty-snotty eyebrow raise.
at patootie, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 How do the officers know that you and Pete Rundell have not been working some kind of smoocher with Hammerton?
at smooching, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 So you’re not only a two-timer, you admit you are a three-timer.
at two-timer, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 When you are dealing with a wrongo guy, you gotta beat the bum to the punch.
at wrongo, adj.
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