1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 52: Bet your sweet butt! First and last.at bet one’s (sweet) ass (v.) under bet, v.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 78: That’s why you’re so goddam energetically trying to bird-dog it on to me.at bird dog, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 127: You put something in that gin [...] because you wanted me blotto.at blotto, adj.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 104: ‘Can you bust a box if you have to?’ [...] ‘Are you suggesting that I, Gerald Malone, would stoop to cracking a safe?’.at box, n.1
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 86: I reeled to the left and bumble-footed down three steps.at bumble-footed (adj.) under bumble, v.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 83: ‘Jesus H. Mahogany Christ,’ Jerry said.at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 105: Nobody should call copper because of it.at call copper (v.) under copper, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 53: Rich old husband gets murdered with knife that so obviously belongs to gold-digging wife.at gold-digging, adj.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 78: You knife the old gent and hang a frame on the body with May’s name on it.at frame, n.2
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 81: He was busy putting himself into a bright, severely-cut sports jacket that was a trifle fruity for my taste.at fruity, adj.3
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 17: Rob can’t turn down a carny buddy with an empty grouch bag.at grouch-bag (n.) under grouch, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 20: Some hairy-lunged college boy [...] blew through a horn that was ten feet long.at hairy, adj.2
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 56: My ex-wife says to me ‘Help me knock off my hubby and I’ll inherit the bundle and give you halvies.’.at halvies, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 127: Mike chuckled and went over to the hi-fi and killed the music.at kill, v.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 11: I [...] joined the gang of lusty-eyed marks in front of the kootch bally stand.at kootch, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 11: It was an old dodge. I grinned at the luckboy and held up my five dollar bill and put it back in my pocket.at luck boy (n.) under lucky, adj.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 68: I used to work for Madame Esmerelda. She made with the madball.at madball, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 78: May won’t give you a second tumble and you’re POed.at p.o., adj.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 122: ‘Do I get the Roscoe?’ [...] he passed over the weapon. It was a fortyfive, a Colt.at roscoe, n.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 10: ‘Got a place to sack,’ he asked.at sack (down) (v.) under sack, v.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 59: ‘Hey. How old are you?’ ‘Eighteen.’ Still starchy about it.at starchy, adj.
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 122: ‘You’re a damn fool if you try to use it.’ ‘Gabby—let me sweat it, will you?’.at sweat (it) out (v.) under sweat, v.2
1966 R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 118: The drives was already rattled and the good-god realization that he had just mashed Pansy-face must have unglued him completely.at unglue, v.