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[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 114: I was still awfully weak and wrung out.
at wrung out (like a dishcloth), adj.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 138: Go ahead and see if I give a dang.
at give a damn, v.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 135: I think he’d have had a knockdown drag-out fight on his hands.
at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 7: He’d played up exactly the right customers [...] kissing their tails, making them trust him.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 58: I’d got to grab-assing around with Fay Winroy.
at grab-ass, v.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 107: The fast meat train that balls the jack all the way into El Reno.
at ball the jack, v.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 88: You [...] let me in for a bawling out from that damned snotty Dodson.
at bawling out, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: You were right on the beam — playing all the angles.
at on the beam (adj.) under beam, n.3
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: I did a belly whopper to the floor.
at belly whopper (n.) under belly, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 56: The Man went bail for bigwigs in the Klan.
at bigwig, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 58: He’s a pretty sharp old bird.
at old bird, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 27: I’d put the bite on a big flash-looking guy for coffee money.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 122: They [...] had said that I’d stolen his mother and father blind.
at blind, adv.1
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: A punchy booze-stupe [...] could come along and put the blocks to you.
at put a/the block on (v.) under block, n.6
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 63: It might blow the job if I knew.
at blow, v.2
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 109: She might blow up — jump Jake about it or give it away to someone else.
at blow up, v.1
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 107: Taking on the boes for a dime or a nickel or a cart of coffee.
at bo, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 83: He was all duked out in a hard-boiled collar and a blue serge suit.
at hard-boiled collar (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 66: Tell me you haven’t been leading me on, acting hardboiled and easy to get.
at hard-boiled, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 63: He had a pretty good idea that he’d pulled a boner.
at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 5: Jake is the key witness in that big bookie case.
at bookie, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 8: He’d dropped out of the bootleg racket before the war.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: A punchy booze-stupe without enough guts to string a uke.
at booze stupe (n.) under booze, n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 111: How come he lets you boss him around?
at boss, v.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: Doing things twice as well as you thought you could and getting some breaks thrown in.
at break, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 136: The county attorney was going up the stairs, and the deputy took us into the c.a.’s office.
at c.a., n.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 107: Taking on the boes for a dime or a nickel or a cart of coffee.
at cart, n.3
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 79: Who pulled your chain, grandpa?
at who pulled your chain?, phr.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 76: We chewed the fat a while longer.
at chew the fat, v.
[US] J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 126: I took a bottle up to my room with me, and I got half cockeyed.
at cock-eyed, adj.2
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