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[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 179: You can make it as easy as falling off a log.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 49: Any old time suited him.
at any old, adj.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 82: I was never cut out to [...] kiss somebody’s behind.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 63: You going to see a guy get the damndest behind-kicking.
at ass-kicking, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 60: Hell no, you black bastard.
at bastard, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 132: He brought an old bat in here last night.
at old bat (n.) under bat, n.1
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) n.p. : You’re going to go ding-batty out here.
at ding-batty, adj.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 11: I want to go bare-headed anyway. Like these jelly beans.
at jelly bean, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 44: Unlatch that pump, you nosy old belch.
at belch, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 39: [of a shotgun] I’ll still take old Betsy.
at betsy, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 9: He had opened up an account in a bank just to big-eye it good.
at big eye, v.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 135: This bank here is a bird’s-nest on the ground.
at bird’s nest, n.2
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 26: If he wants to get boiled, he’ll go clear up to Muskogee.
at boiled, adj.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 20: Up until a year ago, Dee Mobley had been bootlegging corn whisky.
at bootleg, v.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 7: Boxcars won’t jump up in your face every throw.
at boxcars, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 72: Pretty good for some old boys that didn’t have a pot or a window to throw it out.
at old boy, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 115: The bug is gettin’ me down.
at bug, n.4
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 177: Something ought to be done about stew bums like that.
at stew bum, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 88: He’s bunged up pretty bad.
at bunged up, adj.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 44: Doing a couple of years for busting a two-bit grocery.
at bust, v.1
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 49: ‘Call your shot, Bowie,’ Chicamaw said.
at call the shots (v.) under call, v.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 20: The Indians were buying their canned heat at the five & ten.
at canned heat, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 67: Cap’n, that something I doesn’t know about.
at captain, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 202: You can [...] make me look like thirty cents.
at like thirty cents (adj.) under thirty cents, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 48: If you boys want to charge a filling station I’m with you.
at charge, v.1
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 48: I’m going to be checking it to you boys [...] in just a few minutes.
at check it (to) (v.) under check, v.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 42: Fifty pesos will get you anything you want in that Chili country.
at chile-, pfx
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 41: I called him a Christ-killer and a few other things.
at Christ-killer (n.) under Christ, n.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 202: You’re just a big country boy and just chumpy as hell at times.
at chumpy, adj.
[US] E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 8: I’m not going to fool with any of these clodhopper town banks.
at clodhopper, adj.
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