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[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 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 bastard, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 52: The joint is bugged – it’s got a burglar alarm.
at bug, v.4
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 212: I was at one time doubled up in the same cell as a rat.
at double up, v.1
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 105: If they have soft tires, I would like to give them a slow puncture. [...] That’s a good idea, in giving them a flat, maybe they might get out and fix it.
at flat, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 224: Get the hell out of here.
at get the hell out (of) (v.) under hell, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 67: If depositers come in, you take them too, and hoist them.
at hoist, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 87: The tire you would throw away from your autombile, that is sold to a junky, who sells it to a place where they make a new tire out of that old tire.
at junky, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 223: He used to paste me in the eye, bust me on the chin once in a while.
at paste, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 214: I knew he would get a pickup.
at pick-up, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 224: Sing a song, you punk, you.
at punk, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 30: I wouldn’t squeal on any cop, it ain’ in me to be a rat. Squealing on anybody is being a rat.
at rat, n.1
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 107: As you know, them people love to put on the ritz.
at put on the ritz (v.) under ritz, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 104: You wind up with the dough and screw out.
at screw out (v.) under screw, v.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 125: That’s the name of the hop. There’s all grades, just like coffee. There’s yensheesh [...] and the brick is the most expensive and the best.
at yen-shee, n.
[UK] D. Ahearn How to Commit a Murder 29: Those cry-baby bandits that squealed on the cops – they all wound up in the can with plenty of time.
at time, n.
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