1952 I, Mobster 106: Everything on the up-and-up. Everything respectable.at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
1952 I, Mobster 21: They’ll do anything to get a shot. If it’s a woman, she’ll lay up with a dog.at lay back, v.
1952 I, Mobster 102: I knew then he’d turned junkie and that he’d given himself a bang before he showed up.at bang, n.1
1952 I, Mobster 8: The poor broken-down whores that hung out on the corner [...] looking to make four bits for a flop.at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
1952 I, Mobster 58: I had the money – I could have had myself one of those fancy places up on Seventh Avenue without even feeling the bite.at bite, n.1
1952 I, Mobster 75: Up to then policy had always been strictly a dinge operation, something for no place but the black belt.at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
1952 I, Mobster 72: It was clear that sooner or later something would have to give and there would be a blowoff.at blow off, n.1
1952 I, Mobster 43: I’d even had it in mind to brace him for enough to start me off on my own.at brace, v.
1952 I, Mobster 79: We want our own investigators for this neighbourhood, not a bunch of goddamned brown noses.at brown nose, n.
1952 I, Mobster 38: It was Prohibition and everybody all over town was making a quick buck peddling alcohol.at fast buck, n.
1952 I, Mobster 14: This Calicci and a couple of other guys had busted into a cigarette warehouse.at bust, v.1
1952 I, Mobster 95: They’ve got plenty of trained canaries to sing any way they tell them.at canary, n.1
1952 I, Mobster 42: The broad put up an argument, the kind that needed only half a century note to settle.at century note (n.) under century, n.
1952 I, Mobster 81: The only way you could keep most of the Broadway night spots going was by running a clip joint.at clip-joint, n.
1952 I, Mobster 99: They figured what the junk would bring cut down and adulterated, and split up into about a thousand decks an ounce.at deck, n.4
1952 I, Mobster 75: Up to then policy had always been strictly a dinge operation, something for no place but the black belt.at dinge, adj.
1952 I, Mobster 46: The wops were having trouble with a squarehead who called himself Dutch Schultz.at Dutch, n.1
1952 I, Mobster 22: Just like I couldn’t ever swear that somebody put the finger on me.at put the finger on (v.) under finger, n.
1952 I, Mobster 8: The poor broken-down whores that hung out on the corner [...] looking to make four bits for a flop.at flop, n.5
1952 I, Mobster 108: I would put some gills in her hand and say that Vito had sent the money.at gill, n.3