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[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 87: Been so long since him or me turned a trick that people plumb forgot all about us.
at turn a trick, v.1
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 23: I’m holding aces and you’re trying to buy out with hot air.
at hold aces (v.) under ace, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1963) 6: Sure, now. Sure, you’re kind of up in the air [...] It isn’t every day in the week that a man gets hisself engaged.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 74: An underworld in-and-outer who had acquired a bad name for reliability.
at in-and-outer, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 57: I’m hot as a three-dollar pistol.
at ...a (three-dollar) pistol under hot as..., adj.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 23: I wasn’t burned over what you was going to do to me.
at burned (at), adj.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 74: Some eager beaver of a lab hound had managed to raise a latent print on the man’s corpse.
at eager beaver, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 23: I’m holding aces and you’re trying to buy out with hot air.
at buy out (v.) under buy, v.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 101: He wasn’t carryin’ very heavy when he skipped.
at carry, v.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 8: Catch onto some of that coffee and chow yourself.
at chow, v.2
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 61: Get that red paint off your claws. It’s making me sick.
at claw, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 58: You holler copper and you and Frannie get your clocks fixed.
at get one’s clock cleaned (v.) under clock, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 68: A hot car was always cooler at night.
at cool, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 58: You holler copper and you and Frannie get your clocks fixed.
at holler copper, v.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 7: Doc was too smart to tangle with Rudy Torrento; he’d know that no one pulled a cross on Rudy.
at pull a cross on (v.) under cross, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 4: […] if I was you. I’d be cuttin’ it up in Las Vegas [...] .
at cut it up (v.) under cut it, v.3
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 71: ‘You’re a married man yourself, I take it.’ The salesman wasn’t. He’d tried the double harness once and it hadn’t worked.
at double harness (n.) under double, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 20: The bombs, you long-eared jerk! Any commotion.
at long-eared, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 19: One more fall, one more prison stretch and — and that would be that.
at fall, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 23: He was afraid Doc had a fast one up his sleeve.
at fast one, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 58: They got enough on me to fry me six times.
at fry, v.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 52: Put the bag in for you, then switched keys on you. It’s one of the oldest con gags in the country.
at gag, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 74: One of their stunts even had Rudy going for a while.
at get going, v.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 100: Them ginks don’t even know what we’re talking about.
at gink, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 101: He wasn’t carryin’ very heavy when he skipped.
at heavy, adv.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 28: He’d dealt with Honest Johns before, and they’d never turned out as pure as they were supposed to be.
at honest john, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 74: It was mostly nut stuff [...] the kind of hooroosh that always sprang up around a big name or a big kill.
at hooroosh, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 74: Some eager beaver of a lab hound had managed to raise a latent print on the man’s corpse.
at -hound, sfx
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 24: I’m keeping your gun [...] I’m taking any iron that Carol has when she shows.
at iron, n.
[US] J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 33: Had to pack the chow down to come off a jag.
at jag, n.1
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