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[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 214: His wife was going for any Tom, Dick and Harry.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 216: Hello, so and so, you want a gun?
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 243: Crime does not pay because the best you wind up is behind the eight ball.
at behind the eight ball, phr.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 117: If she is not a good booster, the joint does not want her either.
at booster, n.2
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 223: He was always known as a bulldozer [...] People feared him.
at bulldoser, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 214: His wife was going for any Tom, Dick and Harry.
at go for, v.1
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 14: ‘Let him write it. That’s his business.’ But an ordinary ‘ghost’ would scarcely do.
at ghost, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 216: You may see him and open up on him and give it to him, when if you are a good head you will use your head and wait.
at head, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 53: A good man on the hoist can always take a joint in five or eight minutes .
at on the hoist under hoist, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 216: You may see him and open up on him and give it to him.
at open (up) (on) (v.) under open, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 124: Some pipeys say it’s as good as drinking booze.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 28: I wouldn’t work with a guy that’s known as a punk or a rat. I hate them. [...] The Police Department have them on their payrolls.
at punk, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 17: Ratting on a cop is just as serious a crime as ratting on your best friend.
at rat on (v.) under rat, v.2
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 208: I might try to scheme you out with a girl.
at scheme out (v.) under scheme, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 221: I can’t see into that smearing up business, because when they are smearing up with you, they are looking to kill you.
at schmeer, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 225: ‘Screw, kid,’ I said to my Jew friend. He screwed.
at screw, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 209: If you got plenty of money, you can set him up in a cabaret.
at set up, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 224: He said: ‘Get the hell out of here,’ and give me a smack in the face.
at smack, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 123: I got some good friends that are smokeys. I used to lay pipey broads.
at smokey, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 124: A fellow that smokes a pipe will always wind up a snowey. [...] They usually take morphine or heroin.
at snow, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 73: If he is a Jew, you call him an Irish son of a bitch; and if he is an Irishman, you call him a Jew bastard.
at sonofabitch, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 221: You might be on a spot in a cabaret or such a place, and walk into the lavatory and be stuck up with guns.
at on the spot (adj.) under spot, n.3
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 209: I would get a broad to make him and give him a steer for me.
at steer, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn Confessions of a Gunman 116: There are joints known as steering joints. It is more like a speakeasy, with a band there. They work with what is known as cab drivers.
at steer joint (n.) under steer, v.
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