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[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 174: Even after all the years I been runnin’ a grade-A re-fined house.
at grade A, adj.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 67: Barber’s just givin’ him kid stuff t’ do to keep him from messin’ around the big stuff.
at mess about, v.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 98: It ain’t hay in here.
at that ain’t hay, phr.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 49: You never wanted to help out wagon-bouncing ’r coppin’ by the five-’n-dime.
at five and dime, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 118: He’d gotten down to the sprouts, the five-and-dimers, the penny-matchers [...] who’d never come closer to going on a job than to lean against the same newsstand that Bruno Lefty leaned on.
at five-and-dimer, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 66: Who’s that cliff-ape?
at cliff ape (n.) under ape, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 175: I learned how to short-arm inspect from doctors too.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 8: Not strong-arm stuff, Barber? Don’t make me do that no more.
at strong-arm stuff (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 125: I gave him the arm alone. I’m rugged as a bull.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 174: ‘It’s his Detation Waltz he calls it.’ ‘I hope he knows what he’s doin’ is all [...] It looked queer as duck soup t’ me.’.
at ...duck soup under queer as..., adj.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 147: A banty Italian, grinning out of self-consciousness.
at banty, adj.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 59: You think I’d spill a good thing to a bathead like Fire?
at batbrain (n.) under bat, n.2
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 12: I hope that Kodadek gets beaned for keeps ’n never comes to.
at bean, v.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 155: I’ve beat every big-time outfit in the country.
at beat, v.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 143: You did six months for all four instead of twenty years apiece [...] How’d you beat all them years?
at beat, v.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 143: ‘You’ve beat society out of four hundred years.’ ‘Society beat me out of a thousand first.’.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 46: This bedbug was getting too big for his shoes.
at bedbug, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 107: He knew now he was going to be beaten [...] with keys or hose or billy.
at billy, n.4
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 8: For other guys it’s four bits all summer ’n sixty on Saturday.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 3: Two-bits shampoo okey?
at two bits, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 42: Blimps cheatin’ on their husbands ’n boyfriends.
at blimp, n.1
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 87: ‘Jesus Kelly Christ! [...] I ain’t gonna stay in here! Hey! You! Boobatch!’ Bruno Bicek knew no better word to indicate a church-going, foreign-born Pole than ‘boobatch’. The boobatch made no reply.
at boobatch, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 37: He’d wind up with some Dago judge throwing the book at him.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 139: You’re a hook. You’re a flat-thief. You’re a wagon-bouncer [...] You’re on the boost.
at on the boost under boost, v.2
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 180: I’ve got friends, real pals. Boosters I bailed out, free-lance hustlers I paid their rent for.
at booster, n.2
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 137: A world of alleys, side streets [...] padlocked poolrooms and bootleg bookies.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 139: The voice was hoarse from a hundred cells. Or from boozing. It was hard to tell.
at boozing, n.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 183: I was house-broad there. I been house-broad in some of our best hotels.
at house broad (n.) under broad, n.2
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 155: Charlie had seduced them all, had spent their money like water and brushed them off without a qualm.
at brush off, v.
[US] N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 96: Wash yer face. You’re goin’ to the bug doc.
at bug doctor (n.) under bug, n.4
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