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Texas by the Tail choose

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[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 6: Joe, of course, is the lowest point on the dice. Above it are [...] , Eighter-Decatur [etc.].
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 49: Knock off that daddy-mama alfalfa [...] It’s beginning to give me the meeyams!
at alfalfa, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 173: He and the old man walked out of town [...] they couldn’t afford anything but the ankle express.
at ankle express (n.) under ankle, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 170: That’s how it looked [...] like the ass-end of Far Nowhere.
at arse-end, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 150: Turkelson had a mother whom he doted on; a hypochondriacal old battle-axe.
at battle-axe, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 33: Mitch, you sweet bastard!
at bastard, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 158: Why do you let this half-baked whore clip you for practically everything but your bean money?
at bean money (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 6: Joe, of course, is the lowest point on the dice. Above it are [...] , Eighter-Decatur (three [i.e. combinations]), Quinine (a bitter two), Big Dick (two) and the fielders, Heaven-eleven and Boxcars, which have no bearing after the initial roll.
at big dick (n.) under big, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 46: ‘It’s my son, dear.’ ‘Big deal.’.
at big deal!, excl.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 151: Dallas. Big D. The New York of the Southwest.
at Big D, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 125: Blue Monday – a hard morning after a hard weekend. It figured.
at blue Monday, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 10: He’d run a boiler room all day, bossing a bunch of phone men.
at boiler-room (n.) under boiler, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 138: He simulated a man shooting dice. ‘Like to roll the bones a little?’.
at roll the bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 121: Some brannigan that would attract the attention of the police.
at brannigan, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 158: ‘Need any scratch [...]?’ ‘No, I’m not completely flat.’.
at flat broke, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 165: Studs were always buying rubber bubs [...] so that they could pass for dames.
at bub, n.4
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 62: If I’d been sap enough to buck a game like that in the first place.
at buck, v.2
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 139: ‘A couple of bucks will be fine,’ [...] he dropped two hundred dollars on the table.
at buck, n.3
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 9: He was pretty burned up himself. She’d been late on the take-out.
at burned up, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 12: No fly-by-nights, sir. Just a plain old-fashioned American family.
at fly-by-night, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 128: Yessir, that Lee was really a case.
at case, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 36: How fast money goes [...] All he has left now is a rubber checkbook.
at rubber cheque, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 122: This cooling out on a chump, of course, is routine in any hustle.
at cool out, v.2
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 36: No one was allowed to cool out on Frank Downing.
at cool out on (v.) under cool out, v.2
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 197: The news from Aix is strictly copasetic.
at copacetic, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 71: Fort Worth . . . Cowtown. Where the West begins.
at cow town, n.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 150: We’ve crapped out, Turk. There’s nothing to do now but pay off.
at crap out, v.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 190: Don’t crumb me with him, please! Don’t knock me, for God’s sake.
at crumb, v.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 52: If you’re afraid I might try to crumb-in on your action —.
at crumb in (v.) under crumb, v.
[US] J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 57: ‘Gee, dad! [...] You’re a daisy!’.
at daisy, n.
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