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[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 155: Hell! [...] Never had a tip yet worth a good goddam.
at not worth a good goddam, phr.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 181: He bossed the mob-out job?
at boss, v.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 17: That was the trouble – the boys would get five – when they needed four.
at boys, the, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 47: I told her to break for the dirty burg.
at break, v.2
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 40: I’m interested in the breeders – the few who rope in the dumb ones, the weak ones. [Ibid.] 47: You were wise to the fact that when I got out of prison I was going to shove in on some big-time crime breeders.
at breeder, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 34: Dot Ellis was played up as an example of a Broadway butterfly.
at butterfly, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 126: If they hole in anywhere that looks permanent, give me a buzz.
at give someone a buzz (v.) under buzz, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 52: We waited ten minutes before she got the buzz.
at buzz, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 83: He figures he’s got the carver.
at carver, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 69: Two hundred grand is a lot of coin.
at coin, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 29: Red’s been coking up.
at coke up (v.) under coke, n.1
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 188: ‘To hell with the comedy!’ he snapped.
at comedy, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 46: Went over to the boardinghouse where Donner crashed.
at crash, v.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 49: Donelly’s gun crashed. Once – then once again.
at crash, v.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 47: You were damned sore at her.
at damned, adv.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 38: I got to thinking about what I could do with the money Dot hadn’t gold-digged away from me.
at gold dig, v.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 29: Donner did Red some dirt on the witness stand.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 45: He’s lined up the gent that did Dot in.
at do in, v.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 22: She wasn’t so doped up or sleepy as she looked.
at doped, adj.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 22: She had a pasty complexion, sharp features, and dopey eyes.
at dopey, adj.2
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 28: A runt named Red Salmon gave him a dose just now, over on Fifty-sixth Street.
at give someone a dose (v.) under dose, n.1
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 172: They drummed out Carrie.
at drum out, v.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 103: They rolled her [...] She was dry.
at dry, adj.1
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 177: Supposing you and I made a duck for it.
at duck, n.6
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 185: Eat with me – dutch treat.
at Dutch treat, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 20: ‘Angel’ Cherulli had been found in an alley behind his club, with a flock of thirty-eights in his stomach and chest.
at thirty-eight, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 82: Look out that gun doesn’t go off in the folds of your dress and send a bullet through your fanny.
at fanny, n.1
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 107: Cherilli had been a little guy, and he’d tried to work a fast one.
at pull a fast one (v.) under fast one, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 114: Just happened along as the fizzy stuff was being served.
at fizzy, n.
[US] R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 34: It’s harder to figure Donner’s go-out than the other two.
at go-out, n.
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