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[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 He drew his colleagues into one corner of the little cubbyhole that serves as a sweat box down at the ninth precinct station.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Did you know your pal, Morris, was a junky?
at junkie, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Willy Morris, of the long-established confidence firm of Pollet & Morris, replied. He was seated in their ‘office’ one story above Main Street.
at office, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Marshal Lindsey hobbled into the corner drugstore to say hello to the all-night soda pusher.
at pusher, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 We’re a couple of smart guys [...] Didn’t we clean up near fifty grand.
at smart guy (n.) under smart, adj.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 We haven’t had a cheep out of Sammy.
at cheep, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Then the ‘blind’ man legged for the alley with Brunt’s wild, hot lead singing music about his head.
at leg, v.1
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Bill Krantz was behind the mahogany, but he did not press the warning button beneath the counter.
at mahogany, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Brunt husked his voice [...] ‘Keep yer pants on, Danny.’.
at keep your pants on! (excl.) under pants, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 But not telling me is worth a punch on the schnozzle.
at schnozzle, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 All kinds of guys go there—even stiff shirts.
at stuffed shirt, n.
[US] G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Sergeant Brunt used human bait to hook the snatch mobsters.
at snatch, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 Honest, officer, my reputation is A Number One.
at A-1, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 A dick just walked in here an hour ago and took the car to headquarters. How d’ya like them berries, hey?
at how do you like them apples?, phr.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 Suppose we gilly this bus just outside of Tampa on some side road?
at gilly, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 Although I think you knew this car was red hot, I am going to give you a break.
at red-hot, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 No one had ever suggested that Stoneparte Service — The Best in Good Used Cars — was a junkolo trap.
at junker, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 All you have to do in order to save your fat body from a condition resembling a sieve, due to a large peppering of lead, is to remain quiet.
at pepper, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 John Stoneparte, master of the art of spieling.
at spieling, n.
[US] S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 You see, his fighter, Slug-daffy Harney, batted a young girl to death one night in a drunken rage.
at bat, v.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 Me and Snooty Piper walk very briskly into the old Colonial wigwam—out in Newton, a suburb of Beantown.
at Bean Town (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 ‘If you don’t get that hospital destination out of your brain, I’ll splatter it all over your boat.’ [...] ‘Okay, mister. Where do you want I should drop ya?’.
at boat, n.1
[US] J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 Them Chinks’ll commit murder t’ git the bones of their relatives back to a Chinese bone orchard.
at bone orchard (n.) under bone, n.1
[US] J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I bet he is a long-faced bosco with a purplish bugle.
at bosco, n.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I come chop-chop. Velly fast.
at chop-chop, adv.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 A Chinaman will shoot the works [...] when it comes to boxing the bones of an honorable benefactor [...]. But no chop suey citizen is chump enough to chase back to where he left a stiff.
at chop suey, adj.
[US] S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I saw his pudgy hand go out in a gesture to the cokey at the end of the bar.
at cokie, n.
[US] S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 The girl on the bed was looking up from her magazine at me [...] said: ‘Look, cream puff. How’s about being a sport and cutting me down?’.
at cream puff, n.1
[US] S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I was remembering something the instructor at Flatfoot School teaches all his little rookies.
at flatfoot, n.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 ‘You better talk or you will glit blig hotfloot!’ Snooty says to the China boy.
at hot foot, n.
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