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[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 57: I gave the railroader two of the cans of alky.
at alky, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 92: When I got to Leavenworth they celled me alone because I was an escape artist.
at -artist, sfx
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 36: She hauled them out and opened them up, right there in the alley, and you can just imagine! Holy mackerel and Katy bar the door!
at Katy bar the door, phr.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 43: We went to bat in Macleod on five charges.
at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 21: The colonel’s daughter went to bat for me, but it didn’t do no good.
at go to bat for (v.) under bat, v.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 239: He done quite a lot of beefing about being the first man ever to use the chain.
at beef, v.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 84: Later, I worked pretty close with Eddie when he was calling the shots for Johnny Dilllinger, Homer Van Meter and some of them other big leaguers I got tied up with in the 1930’s.
at big-leaguer, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 23: Me and Lili hit all the high spots and had ourselves a big time.
at big time, n.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 190: He was a big shot and he didn’t want no one to forget it.
at big shot, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 74: So you’re the bird that made it off the train the other night. Quite a kid, ain’t you?
at bird, n.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 114: We talked things over [...] and decided the best thing to do was set up another blast – that’s what we sometimes called our jobs – just as soon as we could.
at blast, n.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 175: I seen as many as three guys a night flop off – blow their tops – and try to commit suicide.
at blow one’s top, v.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 89: France was crawling with well-heeled Americans. And with them was crawling all sorts of jewel thieves, con men and boosters. Cheap crooks.
at booster, n.2
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 51: That’s when I went to bootlegging – running whisky across the line from British Columbia into Idaho and Washington.
at bootleg, v.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 118: I think somebody touched off a bug inside the bank.
at bug, n.4
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 97: He was craning his neck and bug-eyeing the door.
at bug-eye, v.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 41: They bunked us down out in the barn.
at bunk, v.2
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 207: Me and Pat listened for a while to this kid giving us the business about all the places he had been and the things he done, so at last we figured it was about time to take care of him.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 82: I had pretty well cut my teeth on bank heisting in the Pueblo and the Rose City Bank jobs. But it was Al Sutton who really showed me the business. I picked up a pretty good knack for it from Al.
at business, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 48: You guys must be them two that busted out of Stony Mountain to-day!
at bust out, v.2
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 33: Staring him right in the eye, is the patch on the busted tire of my old car.
at busted, adj.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 72: If the cinder dicks find you on the train, we will all be in the butter.
at in the butter under butter, n.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 150: The Swiss dog-trainers piled in, too. So out come the whole kaboodle, dogs and all.
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 81: He worked fast and probably cut his par time for busting into a can by at least two minutes.
at can, n.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 29: Blackie’s in on the caper.
at caper, n.2
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 83: Then we would plan our way out and stash the get-away cars well out along the road.
at getaway car, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 93: A guard come to Panzeran’s cell and told him to be sure and make early breakfast next morning because he was going on the carpet. That meant he was going before the warden on some charge or other of violating rules.
at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 84: Eddie Bentz was the best caser and get-away planner in the business.
at caser, n.3
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 115: First off, we needed us some machine guns [...] Homer he was fresh out of a chatterbox, too.
at chatterbox, n.
[US] ‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 116: The three of us dropped down there [...] just to make sure Eddie’s plans was on the beam. They checked out right on the nose.
at check out, v.2
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