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I, Mobster; The Confessions of a Crime Czar choose

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[UK] I, Mobster 106: Everything on the up-and-up. Everything respectable.
at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
[UK] I, Mobster 78: They’ll wind up putting drinks on the arm.
at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] I, Mobster 8: All of them were bad news, any way you looked at it.
at bad news, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] I, Mobster 90: He’s just blowing off to sound good.
at blow, v.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] I, Mobster 84: I ought to have felt good about the way things were breaking.
at break, v.2
[UK] I, Mobster 79: We want our own investigators for this neighbourhood, not a bunch of goddamned brown noses.
at brown nose, n.
[UK] I, Mobster 38: It was Prohibition and everybody all over town was making a quick buck peddling alcohol.
at fast buck, n.
[UK] I, Mobster 10: He was staring bug-eyed at Mamie.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[UK] I, Mobster 14: This Calicci and a couple of other guys had busted into a cigarette warehouse.
at bust, v.1
[UK] I, Mobster 95: They’ve got plenty of trained canaries to sing any way they tell them.
at canary, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] I, Mobster 88: You been conking off for eight hours nearly.
at conk off (v.) under conk, v.2
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] I, Mobster 46: The wops were having trouble with a squarehead who called himself Dutch Schultz.
at Dutch, n.1
[UK] I, Mobster 33: Only he didn’t say Mafia – he called it the family.
at family, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] I, Mobster 111: It’s a lousy stinking frame they’re pinning on him.
at frame, n.2
[UK] I, Mobster 108: I would put some gills in her hand and say that Vito had sent the money.
at gill, n.3
[UK] I, Mobster 63: I don’t trust him, Tony. At heart he’s a goniff.
at gonnof, n.
[UK] I, Mobster 47: I was grabbing off a hundred grand a year in the alky racket.
at grab, v.
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