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[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 47: Police made rounds every night [...] armed with snarling, German shepherd K-9s.
at K-9, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 110: He came to New York with one ace in the hole.
at ace in the hole (n.) under ace, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 145: As I hit the avenue, I fall in step with a salt-and-pepper duo – one dread-headed Rasta, the other a hippie-haired blonde.
at salt-and-pepper, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 113: Suzi is a past-due tourist, a Brazilian national who came to visit the Apple and long overstayed the welcome her visa provided.
at Apple, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 67: It was better to go inside with a ‘don’t-give-a-fuck’ badass rep preceding him.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (2011) [ebook] ‘Oh, balls to them,’ Barbara croaks, a bit of New Hampshire crustat the edgesof her voice.
at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 156: Sodden barhoppers slouching along everywhere else.
at bar-hop, v.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 12: Hustle up money, cop some stuff, beam up, and write. [Ibid.] 120: Suzi’s probably beamed up somewhere.
at beam up, v.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 8: Panic that at any second someone or something is going to jump out of the darkness [...] and stomp the living shit out of me.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 166: He [...] seems to have emerged with something more to hold onto than the bebop, gangsta hipsterism that passes for identity on the streets.
at bebop, v.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 42: He may have a few million under his belt. But he is no snob.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 112: He became a Big-Time Charlie at the soup kitchens.
at big-time Charlie (n.) under big-time, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 46: A spectacle that fairly rattled early-bird commuters.
at early-bird, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 244: We decided it’d be best to first purge ourselves of all temptation with one last big blowout [...] both of us being longtime veterans of the pipe.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 185: The blue-and-whites keep a constant, rolling vigil, scooping up the drunk, deranged, and dangerous.
at blue-and-white (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 105: His PR man, a young, third-tier grunt trying to make his bones in a large firm.
at make one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 49: Old timers, boozed-out winos, crashed-out crackheads.
at boozed, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 149: Ditty-bop, one-leg pumping, head-tilted-to-the-side step.
at diddy-bop, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 163: His [...] presence tends to cast a pall over my nightly devotion to bug-eyed bacchanal.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 175: Damn! [...] I’m buggin’.
at bugging, adj.2
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 109: The kind of repressed and lost little burg that squeezes the life out of you.
at burg, n.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 48: Our sleeping niche under the stairs had long ago been busted.
at bust, v.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 75: I ain’t bustin’ my ass for nobody.
at bust one’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 240: Convinced, in my buzzed-out brain, that all the people I passed on the street were clucking their tongues at me.
at buzzed out, adj.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 124: Richard [...] triumphantly returns, clutching a check for seven grand, and hits me off with a C-note.
at C-note, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 67: By the time Jersey hit ‘the cage’ – that little room in the court building where he’d be thrown together with a court-appointed lawyer [...] he’d be all theirs.
at cage, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 124: Being in the can, it seems, was just the grist Richard needed for his muse.
at can, n.1
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 232: Pataki also knows, as does every other give-’em-the-chair posturer, that dealing out death to the bad guys is an idea that resonates with a frustrated, edgy populace.
at chair, the, n.
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 112: He became a Big-Time Charlie at the soup kitchen.
at charlie, n.2
[US] L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 137: The announcer chirps an introduction.
at chirp, v.
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