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Shake Him Till He Rattles choose

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[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 143: You know you can’t turn out a broad that doesn’t want to turn. They have to have the whore in them to begin with.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 10: Is there action there tonight?
at action, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 47: Ol’ Tree’s got action.
at action, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 106: ‘Where’d you get the hairy fiddle?’ Cabiness pulled at the front of his new suit coat.
at fiddle (and flute), n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 101: Providing you don’t take it on the heel and toe.
at heel-and-toe, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 35: Meanwhile all the swingers will have taken off for Venice or the Apple.
at Apple, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 23: His hair was long and combed into a glossy duck’s-butt.
at duck’s arse, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 107: ‘We’re cutting out.’ [...] ‘Heat. And crap. We’re up to our ass in it here. In New York they’re civilized.’.
at up to one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 15: ‘Hold my axe, will you, Lee-boy?’ He took Furg’s trombone.
at axe, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 114: Randozza nodded heavily, very BTO.
at b.t.o., n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 34: She was all bitched up behind Lee. She knew he occasionally balled other chicks on the side, but he was the only one who could turn her on.
at ball, v.3
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 68: This was the Beach. You didn’t take things big [...] it wasn’t cool.
at take it big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 41: Jean was as close as he ever came to taking it big.
at take it big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 34: He’s some kind of wheel among the Italian boys.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 34: She was all bitched up behind Lee. She knew he occasionally balled other chicks on the side, but he was the only one who could turn her on.
at bitched (up) (adj.) under bitch, v.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 119: Even though the bite at the door had gone up to two dollars, the place filled up early.
at bite, n.1
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 122: Oh, the bottles are so blah [...] But the texture of the soup cans is really quite interesting.
at blah, adj.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 99: It wasn’t that funny because Furg had blown the gig, too.
at blow, v.2
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 7: What’s an old blowhard like you doing around North Beach?
at blowhard, n.1
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 43: What’s bogus about not wanting to get busted?
at bogus, adj.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 31: Old slew-foot Nietzsche. Bombed out of his gourd by the nowhereness of it all.
at bombed, adj.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 49: Furg had spent five years in one of the Army’s best bands. Top ’bone.
at bone, n.9
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 45: He’s got boss connections in the Filmore. He can turn stuff like this.
at boss, adj.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles 53: The bread she was buttering was some off-brand, tasteless as sawdust.
at off-brand, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 39: He palled around with a buddy named ‘Droopy’ Pearson.
at buddy, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 144: Why should I sweat the broad? She’s built and her face is good, but she’s a lemon.
at built, adj.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 91: If I’m the right one, the wrong ones must have been real burns.
at burn, n.1
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 121: I’m not studying no oil-burner of a habit and a hundred-dollar nut every day.
at oil-burner, n.
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 106: That’s Angel’s alarm system [...] If the heat ever busts in here, he’ll have plenty of warning.
at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 17: He remembered her boy’s butt and thin legs.
at butt, n.1
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