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[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 119: ‘We’ll do it,’ I said swinging out to pass a black and white prowl car.
at black and white, n.1
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 217: The racket was launched about three years ago. Borleen [...] and Delamaine Lockley knocked it together – the Squeeze or the Scare, or the Badger Game. Whatever you want to call it.
at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 21: In the aperture stood a hefty mama. [...] This Big Bertha snapped, ‘Well?’.
at bertha, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 218: In case of a bobble Kray, being a real cop, could get away with it.
at bobble, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 124: Freddy March, and a Post man, Vic Coe, boiled into the office.
at boil, v.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 185: We hug buildings and we don’t [...] get bushed in any alleys with only one end.
at bush, v.1
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 40: I passed [...] the bootblack cubby and the cigar stand.
at cubby, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 45: Not that I think Mr. Fatso would leave the office alone.
at fatso, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 74: Which one do you mean, flannel-mouth?
at flannel mouth, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 46: That one flat-wheeled immediately. Even her lips didn’t smile.
at flat-wheel, v.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 218: They were foxy – until to-night.
at foxy, adj.1
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 78: You and this jazbo are all over the joint and you’re yelling he’s a stick-up guy.
at jazzbo, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 85: Okay, lame-brain, where are you?
at lamebrain, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 74: I might well find myself tossed into the pogey for annoying the citizens.
at pogey, n.1
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 77: A man in overalls [...] sat at the desk writing in a sort of ledger. He was a skinhead, thin and cadaverous.
at skinhead, n.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 190: Ten minutes I’ve been waiting [...] What kept you pokes?
at slowpoke (n.) under slow, adj.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 136: Her head shook when I had finished. ‘I’m stumped.’.
at stumped, adj.
[US] P. Whelton Angels are Painted Fair 222: What bothers me now is the tie-up Mrs. Reutler had with that crew.
at tie-up, n.3
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