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The Dimes of Harry Whittington choose

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[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 52: He was hitching his trousers up over his bay window.
at bay window, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 3: I saw the fan was bugged but it didn’t interest me.
at bug, v.4
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 94: You lay a finger on me and you’re getting fitted for a cement suit.
at cement kimono (n.) under cement, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 69: I’m not a Christer [...] I’m no better than any other man.
at Christer, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 5: It was hot and close in that coop.
at coop, n.1
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 3: He led me into this crib. It was completely bare except for two chairs.
at crib, n.1
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 4: I could smell the death house on him.
at death house (n.) under death, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 75: Two hoods [...] gave me the fish eye.
at give someone the fish-eye (v.) under fish-eye, n.1
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 98: You’ve gone nuts. You’ve flipped.
at flipped-out, adj.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 81: You’re not the first cop ever accepted graft.
at graft, n.1
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 65: Nobody got me on it. I got me on it. For kicks. [...] Then it added up. Gambling. Drinking. And my friend Henry. Friend Henry really put on the finish.
at henry, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 49: I don’t want you to make it hot for him.
at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 65: I’m on it, I got the monkey, I got the itch.
at on it, phr.2
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 52: They used to stand on street corners peddling it when they weren’t any more than thirteen.
at it, n.1
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 74: The Ubangi Club was jumping when I got there.
at jump, v.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 47: You could have been a credit to the department [...] You really loused.
at louse up, v.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 65: I’m on it, I got the monkey, I got the itch.
at monkey, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 100: You get your rake-off. What’s your beef?
at rake-off, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 91: The vice, the gambling, the corruption. This is a wide-open town, Lieutenant. Vicious —.
at wide-open, adj.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 94: You’re a bookie, a gambler, payoff man for numbers.
at payoff man (n.) under payoff, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 27: He sat in a bar, got drunk, went up to see her, they had a slug fest and he —.
at slugfest (n.) under slug, v.2
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 13: If your job means anything to you, Mike, you better straighten up and fly right.
at straighten up and fly right (v.) under straighten, v.1
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 64: How long you been on the stuff, Ziggy?
at on the stuff under stuff, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 9: I’m up a stump, Lieutenant [...] Grace is in the hospital.
at up a stump under stump, n.
[US] H. Whittington Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 61: Maybe three or four days in the tank will change your mind.
at tank, n.2
[US] H. Whittington Web of Murder (2000) 20: She’d said I was off my feed, that I snapped at her, that I never smiled any more.
at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
[US] H. Whittington Web of Murder (2000) 53: I had socked it to him hard and he sat back looking as though I had struck him.
at sock it to, v.
[US] H. Whittington Web of Murder (2000) 8: If she’ll step out on her husband with you, she’ll step out on you later.
at step out on (v.) under step out, v.
[US] H. Whittington Web of Murder (2000) 52: How about a little party, Counselor? [...] What would you like? Blonde? Brunette?
at party, n.2
[US] H. Whittington Web of Murder (2000) 4: Maybe you’d like it better if I ran around. I could, you know. Plenty of men are interested in me.
at run around (v.) under run, v.
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