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[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 195: We’ll find ourselves with thirty days D and D.
at d and d, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 237: A pair of sharp-toed ones-and-twos that hurt his feet.
at ones and twos, n.1
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There 38: Jesus, would you shake the apples. They’d think they were up against King Kong.
at apple, n.1
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 193: A class neighborhood, the bottles bust you on sight.
at bluebottle, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 191: He had approached JD to put the bum on him, asking for a quarter.
at put the bum on (v.) under bum, n.3
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 196: ‘What’d they bust him for?’ ‘Bunco. He was trying to lay the note.’.
at bunco, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There 37: It’s rough [...] Rough as a cob. ’Specially for you — many calendars as you pulled.
at calendar, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 193: I been a tramp and a crossroader [...] since the day i slipped out of the barn.
at crossroader, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 190: Stop shoving, you crud-sucking slobs!
at crud-sucking (adj.) under crud, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 193: They were rich [...] and beautiful broads flopped for them.
at flop, v.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 192: That was another poet, a Frog poet.
at frog, adj.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 194: There’s lots of bastards never knew how well off they were till they copped a gander at me.
at take a gander (at) (v.) under gander, n.3
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 197: Laying the note went out with gold bricks.
at goldbrick, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 194: He waited [...] It became apparent that Doc had hung him up.
at hang someone up (v.) under hang up, v.5
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 190: He thought of the Sock Man passing the cells [...] calling ‘Oscar Hocks, Oscar Hocks.’.
at oscar hock, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 192: Every time I rack up a little jingle, I race myself to the store.
at jingle, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There 132: The trap was damaged, the man warned and now humiliated for a kicker.
at for kickers under kicker, n.6
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 192: You ain’t making no loan shark out me.
at loan shark, n.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 242: The Minnesota bankroll, a large wad of ones with a single twenty showing.
at Minnesota bankroll (n.) under Minnesota, adj.
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 196: ‘What’d they bust him for?’ ‘Bunco. He was trying to lay the note.’.
at lay the note (v.) under note, n.2
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 192: You’re too big and healthy to stem.
at stem, v.1
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 191: I got nowhere to flop and nothing to get wet with.
at get wet (v.) under wet, adj.1
[US] M. Braly It’s Cold Out There (2005) 196: How easy it would be to yoke the clerk [...] and empty the till.
at yoke, v.
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