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[US] J. Archibald ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 So I says I will smoke this buck stinkweed [...] I take a light and start puffing away.
at buck, adj.1
[US] J. Archibald ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 They sit down by the corpse and puff at the coffin spikes and [...] run the stogies along under their bugles to get the aroma.
at bugle, n.1
[US] J. Archibald ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 They sit down by the corpse and puff at the coffin spikes and [...] run the stogies along under their bugles to get the aroma.
at coffin nail, n.2
[US] J. Archibald ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 To make sure you don’t come up when we toss you in the drink, copper [...] Ever see a concrete negligee, flatfoot?
at concrete overcoat, n.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 A ginzo named Frankie Killigger was murdered not so long ago.
at ginzo, n.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 So I says I will smoke this buck stinkweed [...] I take a light and start puffing away.
at stink weed (n.) under stink, n.
[US] J. Archibald ‘Dead Letter Officer’ in 10-Story Detective Jan. 🌐 He met her at a murder, and if you could see this blond blister, you would believe it .
at blister, n.1
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