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Door of Dread choose

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[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 7: ‘What nationality are you?’ ‘Come again,’ said the puzzled girl.
at come again!, excl.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 84: Yuh gimme a pain in the neck! Whaddayuh take me for, anyway? Yuh save that bull-con for the gorilla-guy who’s butlerin’ for this hang-out!
at bull con (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 118: You’re a bunco-steerer, and you can’t con me!
at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 117: You’re about the cheesiest thing at picking track-winners that ever got loose!
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 84: Hand it to the corn-rustlers who ain’t hep to a crook from the gyp-game days! For it don’t go wit’ me! I know who yuh are.
at corn-husker (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 7: I don’t quite get yuh [...] And what’s the game, anyway, wit’ all this third-degree stuff?
at third degree, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 128: Yuh gotta change your dope, or the wire-gang’ll tap into your circuit and steer yuh for an early fall!
at dope, n.3
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 53: Seein’ Kestner and yuh’d told me the Feds had ev’rything fixt, I give him the glassy eye and sez, ‘Nix, my honey-boy, nix!’.
at Fed, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 53: ‘Well,’ sez the flatty, showin’ his badge [...] ‘I’m goin’ to gather yuh in, and I’m goin’ to do it right now!’.
at flatty-cop (n.) under flattie, n.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 53: ‘Well,’ sez the flatty, showin’ his badge [...] ‘I’m goin’ to gather yuh in, and I’m goin’ to do it right now!’.
at gather, v.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 60: How d’yuh know he ain’t gay-cattin’ for Keudell right along?
at gaycat, v.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 113: A he-butler that looks like a missin’ link and then finished off by that pink-gilled wop wit’ the meat-carver fresco-work all over his map!
at gills, n.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 55: Gee, but the ginks yuh bump into at this game!
at gink, n.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 84: Hand it to the corn-rustlers who ain’t hep to a crook from the gyp-game days! For it don’t go wit’ me! I know who yuh are.
at go, v.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 84: Yuh gimme a pain in the neck! Whaddayuh take me for, anyway? Yuh save that bull-con for the gorilla-guy who’s butlerin’ for this hang-out!
at gorilla, adj.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 84: Hand it to the corn-rustlers who ain’t hep to a crook from the gyp-game days! For it don’t go wit’ me! I know who yuh are.
at gyp, adj.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 53: I’m hep to this burg [...] I ain’t been hibernatin’ up-state wit’ the hay-tossers, son.
at hay-tosser (n.) under hay, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 53: I give him the glassy eye and sez, ‘Nix, my honey-boy, nix! Save that for the web-foots’.
at honey, n.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 114: D’you suppose I’m going to let that man Kendall hang the Indian sign on me and expect to get away with it?
at put the Indian sign on (v.) under Indian, adj.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 100: When yuh mosey round wi’ the big-mitters you gotta watch the deck or drop your pile!
at big mitt man (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 66: ‘Yuh wait until I grab me hat and mitts,’ she explained to him.
at mitt, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 85: Yuh and your gorilla-gink ’ve done consider’ble monkeyin’ wit’ me [...] and there’s been doin’s in this dump that’ll call for consider’ble ventilatin’.
at monkey, v.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 53: I give him the glassy eye and sez, ‘Nix, my honey-boy, nix! Save that for the web-foots.’.
at nix!, excl.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 128: Doesn’t it strike yuh that ol’ stuff’s about as dead as the dropped pocketbook gag [...] It’s about even wit’ the ol’ silkworm scheme.
at silkworm (n.) under silk, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 57: They was soused to the gills [...] they was so lit up I short-changed ’em a couple o’ bones.
at soused to the gills (adj.) under soused, adj.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 114: After bein’ pounded round by a couple o’ crooks yuh made for the tall timber without a sign of a come-back!
at take to the tall timber(s) (v.) under tall timber, n.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 85: If any guy tries to stop me from walkin out o’ this house, I’ll ventilate ’em first, and ventilate ’em good.
at ventilate, v.
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 128: Yuh gotta change your dope, or the wire-gang’ll tap into your circuit and steer yuh for an early fall!
at wire, n.1
[US] A. Stringer Door of Dread 113: A he-butler that looks like a missin’ link and then finished off by that pink-gilled wop wit’ the meat-carver fresco-work all over his map!
at wop, n.1
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