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One Night Stands and Lost Weekends choose

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[US] L. Block ‘You Can’t Lose’ in One Night Stands (2008) 195: Blindies and crips hail in twenty-five bucks an hour bumming in Times Square.
at blindie, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Murder Is My Business’ in One Night Stands (2008) 117: And they [i.e. prostitutes] walk with a what–the–hell shuffle.
at what-the-hell, adj.
[US] L. Block ‘You Can’t Lose’ in One Night Stands (2008) 197: My man came on with the johnny–on–the–spot pitch.
at johnny-on-the-spot, n.
[US] L. Block ‘You Can’t Lose’ in One Night Stands (2008) 196: It’s psychological. Men are [...] afraid of some skull doctor who never saw them before and will never see them again.
at skull doctor (n.) under skull, n.1
[US] L. Block ‘Burning Fury’ in One Night Stands (2008) 51: He tossed off the shot of rot-gut rye.
at rotgut, adj.
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 25: He made her grift at once — it had to be the badger game.
at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 29: ‘I’m working the C out of Philly’ [...] meant [...] that he was a confidence man who started originally in Philadelphia.
at C, n.3
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 23: He spotted a cannon mob [...] working their way through the pockets of passing shoppers.
at cannon mob (n.) under cannon, n.2
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 23: Working the short con in railway stations, grifting hard for ten bucks here and twenty bucks there.
at short con, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 25: He made her grift at once — it had to be the badger game.
at grift, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 23: Working the short con in railway stations, grifting hard for ten bucks here and twenty bucks there.
at grift, v.
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 23: Baron picked out the hook easily, and watched him work, dipping easily into a mark’s back pocket and passing the wallet to one of the other members of the mob.
at hook, n.1
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 22: Somebody with a little more on the ball might have made him for a hustler in the Organization — not a muscle boy, but somebody with an angle.
at hustler, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 22: The average joe would have pegged him for a successful young businessman.
at joe, n.1
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 22: Somebody with a little more on the ball might have made him for a hustler in the Organization.
at make for (v.) under make, v.
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 23: He let one of the prat men bump him gently.
at prat man (n.) under prat, n.1
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 25: I just got finished working the rag in Dallas. [Ibid.] 29: He had told her he had just finished pulling off a rag, a phony stock con.
at work the rag (v.) under rag, n.1
[US] L. Block ‘Badger Game’ in One Night Stands (2008) 23: He [was] able to feel the wire’s hand dip into his pocket, reaching for his wallet.
at wire, n.2
[US] L. Block ‘I Don’t Fool Around’ in One Night Stands (2008) 86: Calder does most of his work in the Kitchen. A Hell’s Kitchen boy from the start, grew up on 39th Street west of Ninth.
at hell’s kitchen (n.) under hell, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Naked and the Deadly’ in One Night Stands (2008) 245: I was just a lousy dime-store stripper.
at dime-store, adj.
[US] L. Block ‘Naked and the Deadly’ in One Night Stands (2008) 225: Smoky sounds shrieked out of a junked-up dying throat.
at junked, adj.
[US] L. Block ‘Naked and the Deadly’ in One Night Stands (2008) 272: The bachelor dinner [...] dirty jokes, dirty movies, dirty toasts, a lineup with a local whore.
at line-up, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Naked and the Deadly’ in One Night Stands (2008) 256: London [...] You’re a panic. A detective? You coudn’t find sand in a desert.
at panic, n.
[US] L. Block ‘Naked and the Deadly’ in One Night Stands (2008) 227: ‘Who played in the [poker] game?’ ‘Two or three of the sharps. And Dad.’.
at sharp, n.1
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