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The Squeaker choose

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[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 73: Do you think that’s hot air?
at hot air, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 10: There never was a ‘busy’ that gave away a ‘squeaker’.
at busy, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 37: Barrabal, eh? [...] That’s the fly – the detective, who is getting himself talked about just now?
at fly cop, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 164: Go and cosh him!
at cosh, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 193: Lew poured himself out a stiff dose and drank it quickly.
at dose, n.1
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 10: There’s Number Two who’s got a down on me.
at down, n.2
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 165: Sutton had opened the champagne, had filled and emptied one glass. In the other he had carefully dropped thirty drops of a water-like fluid from the little brown phial [...] In the course of his chequered career he had twice used ‘the drop’.
at knockout drops, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 118: That’s where you met the fly men and bought their sparklers.
at fly man (n.) under fly, adj.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 78: I know you are not frantically keen on marriage.
at frantically, adv.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 54: Mr Grumbleguts is a bit late this morning.
at grumble-guts (n.) under grumble, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 17: I believe in the whole-hog method.
at whole-hog, adj.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 49: A worthy crime-hound!
at -hound, sfx
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 23: It was a rotten lagging.
at lagging, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 16: He seems to have an idea that you’re a gay Lothario, my boy!
at lothario, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 8: Is there any chance of seeing this Barrabal I hear so much about? They say he’s mustard.
at mustard, adj.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 153: There was silence till Jim returned and the lift had carried the pigeon out of sight.
at pigeon, n.1
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 157: Go and take a screw outside.
at have a screw at (v.) under screw, n.1
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 23: There was a man in the prison laundry who had been sent down for ten years on a ‘squeak’.
at send down (v.) under send, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 122: I’m going to settle with Frank Sutton.
at settle, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 19: How’s that man Tillman shaping?
at shape (up) (v.) under shape, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 153: ‘Slush. Don’t let’s have any argument.’ Walters replaced the forged note.
at slush, n.1
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 153: Walter [...] produced five notes and passed them to Bill, who examined them critically. He handed one back. ‘Snide,’ he said.
at snide, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 7: There’s a gentleman in Maida Vale who’s offered me three thousand and would spring another.
at spring, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 10: I just want to know who was the squeaker who squeaked!
at squeak, v.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 10: I just want to know who was the squeaker who squeaked!
at squeaker, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 28: There isn’t a man on The Street to whom you couldn’t give three weeks start.
at Street, The, n.
[UK] E. Wallace Squeaker (1950) 75: And as to your little tarradiddle – I’m ashamed of you!
at taradiddle, n.
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