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[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 12: I don’t give a good goddam about another collar.
at not give a good goddam, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 96: You got no case, Ace.
at ace, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 109: You want something special, honey? A little half ’n’ half?
at half-and-half, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 16: [of pool players] I was pushing balls around the green felt [...] The stick artists ignored him.
at -artist, sfx
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 11: The local badges had a bad attitude.
at badge, n.1
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 124: The beef-brain who answered took his time understanding I wasn’t going to talk to him.
at beef-brain (n.) under beef, n.1
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 10: he man who helped raise me inside the walls.
at behind the walls (adv.) under behind, prep.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 162: The guys who bet with us thought we got lucky behind an OD.
at behind, prep.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 92: You’re a fucking nutcase yourself, Burke [...] Yeah, you’re bent.
at bent, adj.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 193: ‘I dont know,’ I told him. Not blowing him off - it was the truth.
at blow off, v.1
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 17: Upstate, when you come in on a homicide beef, you know what they say about you? [...] They say you got a body.
at get a body (v.) under body, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 162: We’d booked twenty cartons of cigarettes against a hundred that Dayton wouldn’t outlive Wesley.
at book, v.1
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 110: Let me look at you, baby [...] Can’t be gettin’ burned; I got me a big habit to support.
at burn, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 128: You started this fucking mess, you clean it up, capisce?
at capeesh, phr.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 18: There’d been a fifty-grand bounty on the Ghost Van [...] Pimps put up the coin.
at coin, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 41: If you stayed on the concrete, maybe you got your name in the papers.
at concrete, n.2
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 138: They won’t dime you for the Sutton Place thing. It won’t fly.
at dime, v.1
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 61: I remembered taking down a drunk in an alley.
at take down, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 139: They drop you for this, you’re not going to jail.
at drop, v.3
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 165: They’re the same man. The same family man.
at family, n.1
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 4: A blank-faced Spanish kid [...] Felony-flyers on his feet.
at felony shoes, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 164: You keep playing me for something I’m not.
at play for, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 109: You wanna have a party, honey? [...] Ten and two, baby. I french, I do it all.
at French, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 82: We’d split the front money too.
at front money, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 118: She mercy-fucked some poor shlub and he bought her a pearl necklace.
at mercy fuck, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 59: The cash looked good, but I wasn’t vouching for it. If it was funny money I was taking the same risk he was.
at funny money, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 127: That guido driving your car, he comes out with a piece and the Jews make him into chopped liver.
at guido, n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 42: Half-ass zip guns that would blow up in your hand when you pulled the trigger.
at zip (gun), n.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 161: We go in on a thing with you - You Pearl Harbor us - leave us with our dicks in our hands.
at Pearl Harbor, v.
[US] A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 12: They got tired of sending round the hard boys.
at hard boy (n.) under hard, adj.
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