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Blues for the Prince choose

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[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 27: Is your back acting up again?
at act up, v.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 119: There was a bouncer at the old Bohemian Club who used a persuader in both hands.
at bouncer, n.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 239: The Prince got wind of it somehow, braced Magee last Friday and booted him out.
at brace, v.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 107: Has this ofay clodhopper been...
at clodhopper, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 147: That makes me an honorable cuss.
at cuss, n.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 42: I draw all the dogs.
at dog, n.2
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 179: Large evening at Manny’s. All-Prince Night. Big doings.
at doings, n.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 43: He’s still dopey and they’re afraid he might kick off if we try to put the question to him.
at dopey, adj.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 103: It’s been a rough shake for you. All round.
at fair shake, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 166: If he starts flubbing around [...] bring him in.
at flub, v.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 88: What’s the gag, Wilde? You trying to get that bastard, Magee, out of jail?
at gag, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 141: Lay off the hard-guy stare, Manny.
at hard guy, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 62: The Prince wasn’t really so strong there. His bass was always a little honky.
at honkie, adj.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 137: I hear she is hot with the warbling and maybe I can use her.
at hot, adj.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 204: We want to keep Magee on ice but we can’t do it for long without a good strong charge.
at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 169: Siddown, friend. Let’s kibitz awile.
at kibitz, v.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 178: He used to hit the bottle awful hard. That’s why most people thought he was such a lush.
at lush, n.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 32: That’s because I don’t shoot off my yap so much.
at shoot off one’s mouth (v.) under shoot off, v.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 119: Buster’s white kid gloves held a tight pocket of chamois sewn snugly around an ounce of bird shot. In his gloves, the persuaders were lethal.
at persuader, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 223: Magee is alibied tight and the D.A. is popping his cork.
at pop one’s cork (v.) under pop, v.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 229: She came here to put the screws to the Prince.
at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 51: The Department won’t split a gut trying to find Joslin.
at split a gut (v.) under split, v.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 170: Just play it straight, like a smart boy, huh?
at play (it) straight (v.) under straight, adv.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 126: ‘All these rhythm ticklers is nuts.’ The piano man prodded the table.
at tickler, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 206: I tipped my mitt to Owens and dropped into a chair.
at tip one’s mitt (v.) under tip, v.3
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 73: He is, he was, a useless, caterwauling Uncle Tom. His father, though, is a great Negro, a man of his people.
at Uncle Tom, n.
[US] B. Spicer Blues for the Prince (1989) 43: He must have got an awful wallop.
at wallop, n.1
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