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[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 58: And you thought you were stringing me, didn’t you, Paddy?
at string (along), v.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy 92: You give me a pain in the behind.
at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 242: The ash-cans and kids in two armies.
at ashcan, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 60: Betting his life on the card of a dumb ass crack.
at dumb-ass, adj.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (2005) 84: ‘You bitch,’ cried Bill. ‘Is that why you switched the wheel on me?’.
at bitch, n.1
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 69: The sore bastards. Forty-five ain’t enough. They got guts bitchin’. We could’ve borrowed a couple of Duffy’s kids for half the dough.
at bitch, v.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy 84: Blowhard, McMann.
at blowhard, n.1
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 87: How many saps had been bopped because they thought they were wise?
at bop, v.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 14: ‘He’s just a snoopin’ weasel.’ ‘A brain guy, huh?’.
at brain, n.1
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (2005) 182: Why was he blabbing all the bunko about the kid days.
at bunco, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 99: Joe could never guess what a bunko artist he was.
at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 191: No use bunking about it.
at bunk, v.3
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 40: A little job now and then keeps them in cat money.
at cat, n.1
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 37: Who wants to hang out on a corner for years, shooting pool, crapping around for two-cent jobs.
at two-cent, adj.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy 148: Christ all hell, what sort of life was Bill leading?
at Christ almighty! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 3: Since when did Paddy chuck parties?
at chuck, v.2
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 201: After hanging out on corners, in speaks and coffee-pots.
at coffee-pot (n.) under coffee, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 257: He was a coke, he’d noticed that when he was smacking his jaw. The punches under the eyes.
at coke, n.1
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 57: Cut the comedy, Paddy.
at cut the comedy (v.) under comedy, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 37: Who wants to hang out on a corner for years, shooting pool, crapping around for two-cent jobs.
at crap around (v.) under crap, v.2
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy 138: None of the leaders were there, only a dozen or so of the crumbums and chisellers.
at crumbum, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 54: Bill said [...] he was going to divvy up.
at divvy, v.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 137: ‘That donkey’s watching us.’ ‘I can lick any mick alive.’.
at donkey, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 2: Who could he shakedown without too much of a squawk?
at shake down, v.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 68: Suppose some eagle eye had spotted McMann’s license number? [Ibid.] 130: We ride downtown in the hocked car [...] afraid of every cop who might be Eagle-Eye Gus.
at eagle eye, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 149: The grifters, chisellers, fakers, fags, business men on the tear.
at faker, n.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 117: ‘I’m tired knocking off Madge, the little slut.’ [...] ‘Tired fixin’ Madge.’.
at fix, v.2
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy 219: On the second floor, in the flat with the beds, a bunch got steamed up and were going to lizzy up one of the younger kids who had a girl’s complexion. They’da fixed his wagon.
at fix someone’s wagon (v.) under fix, v.1
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 201: They were gaga over McMann.
at gaga, adj.
[US] B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 3: The men were slim ginzos [...] Wops weren’t up his alley. [Ibid.] 192: Some lousy ginzo speak.
at ginzo, n.
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