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[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 65: I don’t trust any of those AC-DC guys.
at AC/DC, adj.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 85: They had me where the hair was short and were enjoying it.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 41: He and Penny Stipetto were thick as blood brothers.
at thick as..., adj.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 9: Two days before I had belted his ass from one end of 45th and Second all the way to the next corner.
at kick someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 8: The tourists kept to the Gay White Way [...] clubbing, bar-hopping or taking in a show.
at bar-hop, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 9: He [...] went looking for me with a skinful of big H to keep his courage up.
at big H, n.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 33: I want to see a big war hero who digs the hood bit turn patriotic.
at bit, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 18: I didn’t know this big coot blasted any?
at blast, v.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 29: He had told Lisa he was hurting for a blast.
at blast, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 41: They knew I had a blaster in my belt and would chop them down the second they moved.
at blaster, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 53: I don’t have to go along with the sheep who cry and bleat about the way things are.
at bleat, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 29: She had passed me something that could make or break our national security and I had boffed it.
at boff, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 83: I heard noises like that from the boys. Moe tried to tell me and so did Carl Hoover.
at boys, the, n.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 24: They gave me one break. They won’t give me two.
at give someone/something a break (v.) under break, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 39: You bugs, Irish? You outa your mind?
at bugs, adj.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 59: Can it, Lisa.
at can it (v.) under can, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 8: Newbolder’s quick case of the place didn’t make them.
at case, n.5
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 48: Big Step cut off his supply and if he doesn’t fold he’ll knock off somebody to get a charge.
at charge, n.2
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 60: He’s nuts! Ernie’ll chew him up. He can’t pull a stunt like that.
at chew up, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 53: I can chisel the chiselers and don’t have to pay any respect to the phony politicos.
at chiseler, n.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 10: In a chow joint you’re expected to obey the rules of the game.
at chow joint (n.) under chow, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 56: Shaffer had clued his office staff [...] and two of them watched me go over the mug books.
at clue, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 55: Knock it off, Shaffer. Are you coming through?
at come through, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 12: ‘Come off it, baby,’ I told her softly.
at come off it! (excl.) under come off, v.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 18: I didn’t know this big coot blasted any?
at coot, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 17: Carl and Moe figured they was part of this guy’s bunch and cut loose at ’em.
at cut loose, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 19: You got going against you only one scrawny doped up punk.
at doped, adj.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 67: I wished I had had time to shake down the place completely.
at shake down, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 12: The fuzz would like me to go down though.
at go down, v.
[US] M. Spillane Return of the Hood 45: You got this town on it’s ear already and I don’t want to be there when the shooting starts.
at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
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