1959 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
1959 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.
1959 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.
1959 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
1959 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.
1959 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.
1959 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.
1959 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.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 101: He wasn’t carryin’ very heavy when he skipped.at carry, v.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 8: Catch onto some of that coffee and chow yourself.at chow, v.2
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 61: Get that red paint off your claws. It’s making me sick.at claw, n.
1959 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
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 68: A hot car was always cooler at night.at cool, adj.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 58: You holler copper and you and Frannie get your clocks fixed.at holler copper, v.
1959 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
1959 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
1959 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.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 20: The bombs, you long-eared jerk! Any commotion.at long-eared, adj.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 19: One more fall, one more prison stretch and — and that would be that.at fall, n.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 23: He was afraid Doc had a fast one up his sleeve.at fast one, n.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 58: They got enough on me to fry me six times.at fry, v.
1959 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.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 74: One of their stunts even had Rudy going for a while.at get going, v.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 100: Them ginks don’t even know what we’re talking about.at gink, n.1
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 101: He wasn’t carryin’ very heavy when he skipped.at heavy, adv.
1959 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.
1959 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.
1959 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
1959 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.
1959 J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 33: Had to pack the chow down to come off a jag.at jag, n.1