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[US] Black Mask Aug. III 71: I see things wasn’t all beer and skittles with Mart.
at all beer and skittles, phr.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 16: I can’t have this ash-can on my heels the rest of the day.
at ashcan, n.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 108: The fellows [...] only found an old house that’s no more like the place you beefed about than this is like a pickle factory.
at beef, v.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 35: It takes time to get that on the phone, and when I do – blooey – Coe hasn’t been there.
at blooey!, excl.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 109: Now you will say I’m ready for the booby-hatch!
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 35: It’s funny face – the brainless wonder.
at brainless wonder (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 112: ‘Why didn’t you let me go with you?’ I busted in.
at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] Black Mask Dec. XXII 87: Listen, lady. I have had to press the button on a few guys, yes. In self-defense.
at press the button (v.) under button, n.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 54: Neatly piled on it was an opium smoking outfit, together with a can of ‘Mud’.
at can, n.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 122: The usual environment of a ‘classy’ gambling house.
at classy, adj.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 60: Somebody has cleaned old Adams and now he comes bellyaching.
at clean, v.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 9: The clothes-horse behind the curtain sure was getting one earful.
at clotheshorse, n.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 105: I’d thought up two or three corkers [...] he could take his pick.
at corker, n.2
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 27: I had cowed harder birds than this Jerome Ormond.
at cow, v.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 38: ‘Oh – him,’ I said easily. ‘I crashed him before I came in.’.
at crash, v.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 59: Where’s the diamonds you crooked from me at the hotel in Shola?
at crook, v.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 60: They cut loose at him with just one shot.
at cut loose, v.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 83: I’ve got the dandiest little formula.
at dandy, adj.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 55: You got the mud, Adams? [...] I’m damn near dead for a smoke.
at dead for (adj.) under dead, adj.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 99: His ‘dip’ into the mailbag had been a real prize package after all.
at dip, n.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 56: ‘Easy, Al’ Adams warned.
at easy!, excl.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 61: I [...] saw Berry hot footing it back into the lower hall.
at hot foot, v.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 83: I can beat that forty ways.
at forty ways from the jack (adv.) under forty, adj.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 98: The Gopher had never been a ladies’ man.
at gopher, n.1
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 108: The fellows came back from the woods and said they hunted to hell and gone and only found an old house.
at to hell and gone under hell, n.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 59: Helen and Al had gone to supper at one of the Italian red ink restaurants off Broadway.
at red ink joint (n.) under red ink, n.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 94: He didn’t pull the job himself [...] because he’d be recognized.
at pull a job (v.) under job, n.2
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 16: I’d slipped on a pair of knuckle dusters – brass knuckles if you get what I mean.
at knuckleduster, n.
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 60: Shoot! What’s the lay?
at lay, n.3
[US] Black Mask Aug. III 11: He wasn’t no gunman – not him. That was the how of his taking the lead so easily, not being a quick shooter.
at get the lead (v.) under lead, n.
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