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[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 130: A maharaja’s a big wheel who lives in India.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 79: Leave it to those kinds, the ginzos and the Jewboys, to be in the money.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 24: You give him credit [...] and I’ll give him the old Bronx cheer.
at Bronx cheer, n.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 51: I just had to get a break [...] to make up for my ex, Ronny, and the cat-and-dog year we’d been married.
at cat and dog life (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 80: He was coked up, this Leo Edwards, but once in his life he’d been smart.
at coked (up), adj.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 34: He was a smart cookie.
at smart cookie (n.) under cookie, n.1
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 130: I expect some sweet loving, cutie.
at cutie, n.1
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 82: ‘Wise guy,’ he says, like it’s my fault the other guy’s a dip.
at dip, n.5
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 64: My supervisor thought Maxie was somebody, the way she was putting on the dog.
at put on (the) dog (v.) under dog, n.2
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 51: I just had to get a break sometime. A break to make up for my ex, Ronny.
at ex, n.1
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 98: Then on the wedding night to fizzle it like the other times when I’d fizzled it.
at fizzle, v.2
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 97: Frieda was smart to turn me down. Our marriage would’ve been a fizzle.
at fizzle, n.2
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 90: Stopping like I did was natural but what happened after I stopped was on the fluky side.
at fluky, adj.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 7: A few old-time German families [...] remembered the days when this West Side neighbourhood had been known as Hell’s Kitchen.
at hell’s kitchen (n.) under hell, n.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 27: He and some other highbrows in our crew batted around Beethoven.
at highbrow, n.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 135: She aimed the light on the sucker’s palm. ‘Gods of Fate,’ Madame Shouria began again. He didn’t like it one bit. He squirmed around like he didn’t want to buy any of this gods-of-fate jibber-jabber.
at jibba-jabba, n.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 63: ‘What’s a lousy forty thousand?’ I grinned.
at lousy, adj.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 43: You act like your cripples have b.o. and every other kind of stinko.
at -o, sfx
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 63: The Pop of our crew.
at pop, n.3
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 142: Things all snafued between the boy and the girl.
at s.n.a.f.u., v.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 26: She thought she was smart, Hortense, like she was some kind of sex machine.
at sex machine (n.) under sex, n.
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 30: He had shined up to Hortense tonight.
at shine up to (v.) under shine, v.2
[US] B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 95: Yacking! God, what a yacking.
at yacking, n.
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