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Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes choose

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[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 183: I’m gonna need a description of the carjacker and the license plate of the car.
at car-jacker, n.
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 181: A ’65 Ford Mustang [...] fully restored and cherried out.
at cherry out (v.) under cherry, adj.
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 182: I want that car back [...] ’fore some fuckin’ chop shop can hack it all to pieces.
at chop-shop (n.) under chop, v.2
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 180: It was an old ’71 Barracuda, a clean and chromed-out borderline classic.
at clean, adj.
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 179: Brother driving a blue Chrysler did a one-eighty in the middle of Wilmington Avenue.
at one-eighty, n.
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 184: Man, I wasn’t never a jacker! I never pulled nobody out of a car in my life!
at jacker, n.
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 185: Orange ’65 Mustang in primo condition.
at primo, adj.
[US] G.A. Haywood ‘And Pray Nobody Sees You’ in Woods Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes (1996) 185: My client got shot [...] Clipped in the left wing.
at wing, n.1
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