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[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 44: You shoulda seen him when the coppers bust it [i.e. a fight] up.
at -a, sfx
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 149: We got him drunk in a black-and-tan hot spot.
at black and tan, adj.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 116: Rip-and-tear is all right for kids, but there’s no future in it.
at rip and tear, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 44: We went around that night. We went to battle then for true.
at go around, v.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 198: We were saying that maybe he wasn’t such a bad egg after all.
at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 17: Leo Cooney. Fraud’lent perscription. It’s a bad bang.
at bang, n.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 223: When I get behind a wheel [...] that’s when I got the world beat.
at have someone/something beat (v.) under beat, v.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 21: Why don’t you take a good belt of cocaine and jump out of a twenty-story window?
at belt, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 147: He thought he was on his way to the big time for sure.
at big time, n.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 151: They [i.e. eyes] had the snowbird look in them sure enough.
at snow bird, n.2
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 183: The slut is bleeding me white.
at bleed white (v.) under bleed, v.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 154: You might not think no husky little Irish blondie like me could get scared of an underfed little shoneen like that.
at blondie, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 137: Fancy waited for Brother B. to tell Shorty to blow.
at blow, v.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 153: I was still feelin’ blue over the rookie.
at blue, adj.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 75: We seen this boobatch with his collar turned inside out cash’n his check by Konstanty Stachula’s Tonsorial Palace of Art.
at boobatch, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 78: You wouldn’t think an old boobatch like that’d have so much stren’th left in him, boozin’ down Division night after night.
at booze, v.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 21: The simple everyday bottle-boy, who fights when he drinks, and he drinks all the time.
at bottle-boy (n.) under bottle, n.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 226: He must remain forever on the outside of everything except the nearest brig.
at brig, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 44: You shoulda seen him when the coppers bust it [i.e. a fight] up.
at bust up, v.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 206: I put a half-C in your wallet.
at half-a-C (n.) under C, n.2
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 131: You’re too small to cannon the street cars ’n too little to reach a damper.
at cannon, v.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 23: ‘I’m a millwright — I make rubber.’ ‘Rubber checks, you mean.’.
at rubber cheque, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 83: The fellas begun giv’n me a Christ-awful razzin’ then.
at Christ-awful (adj.) under Christ, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 193: We put up the whole circus at night, under fire.
at circus, n.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 286: Him an’ the kid hadn’t never clicked much anyhow.
at click, v.3
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 197: If you repeated it [i.e a remark] he’d offer to climb all over you for a nickel.
at climb all over (v.) under climb, v.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 65: ‘I’m cold’, he explained [...] meaning the dice didn’t yet feel right to his hand.
at cold, adj.
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 131: I don’t want to catch you on the con in here.
at on the con under con, n.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 212: Popped my cookies [...] Flashed the old hash all over Twenny-Second.
at pop one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 124: A sallow-faced shrimp with spectacles [...] waving an oversized cow-gun.
at cow gun (n.) under cow, n.1
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