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[US] H. Ellis Criminal 163: From Scotland we borrow duds for clothes, and from the Hebrew shoful for base coin.
at shoful, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 92: I don’t give a fast-day fart for what he said.
at not care a fart, v.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 108: The most uppity, no-account nigger in the country.
at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 59: The d.a. told the matron to catch some air.
at catch air (v.) under air, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 86: You sweated that kid until he didn’t know his ass from an adding machine.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 49: Telling him he was asleep at the switch.
at asleep at the switch, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 53: Always tossing weight around and getting nothing but his ass out of joint.
at get one’s ass out of joint under ass, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 55: All we’ve got to go on is [...] what that lardassed d.a. says.
at lard-assed, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 73: I was just popping off.
at pop off (at the mouth), v.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 15: He [...] didn’t give me a word of back talk.
at back-talk, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 67: He was a thoroughly bad egg.
at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 71: Tell him you tried to push the wrong guy around, and he’s got you over a barrel.
at have someone over a barrel (v.) under barrel, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 82: The poor old biddy actually twitched her butt at me.
at biddy, n.2
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 108: They were always biggity and back-talky.
at biggity, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 3: A gopher will have eaten up what blamed little lawn we have left.
at blame, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 83: I was putting the block to him.
at put the blocks on (v.) under block, n.6
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 14: What do you think of the new buggy?
at buggy, n.2
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 70: I imagine we’ll have to bury him.
at bury, v.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 57: You had to hand it to the decadent old buzzard.
at buzzard, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 107: My services will not cost you one red penny.
at red cent, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 50: She was pretty much of a chaser. She’d take out after anything that wore pants.
at chaser, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 64: The kid’s teacher [...] was a pretty tough nut to crack.
at crack, v.2
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 45: I felt just as crummy as she did.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 9: The commercial stuff you get down is a darned far cry from the government-contract jobs.
at darned, adv.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 15: It startled the daylights out of her.
at daylights, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 82: We’ll give your old man a sleeping pill and throw a wingding.
at wing-ding, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 106: He done plenty dirt to me.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 22: You figure everyone’s out to do you so you do them first.
at do, v.1
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 17: They were always running someone down.
at run down, v.
[US] J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 75: I was going to call him myself if you hadn’t got firsts on the phone.
at firsts, n.
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