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The World of Jimmy Breslin choose

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[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 35: Marvin the Torch’s favor job [...] had also belted out most of a million-and-a-half-dollar amusement park.
at belt out (v.) under belt, v.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 14: We’re going to do this big-time.
at big-time, adv.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 32: He is doing a short bit in Attica for poor usage of a gun.
at short bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 9: He’s yellow. Put the bull on these tough guys and they all bend in half.
at put the bull on (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 29: To hell with him. I hope you bury the sonofabitch.
at bury, v.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 123: The bartender got mad at the guy, the old woman screamed, and then everybody got busy.
at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 89: New Yawk coon-lover.
at coon-lover (n.) under coon, n.
[US] in J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 116: A minute percentage of non-payers are of the type known as ‘dead beats.’.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 159: You don’t find any of them taking sunbaths [...] He’s death on sunburns, a Vietnamese.
at death on, adj.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 194: A two-dollar bum typewriting non-novels.
at two-dollar, adj.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 21: Lew King said, ‘Hey, Breslin, this bum is fading you.’.
at fade, v.1
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 117: A transit item [i.e. a cheque] returned unpaid is known as a ‘bum map’ or a ‘frog.’.
at frog, n.3
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 9: He’s yellow. Put the bull on these tough guys and they all bend in half.
at tough guy, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 11: I am only trying to recoup [i.e. expenses]. I am not hustling this joint.
at hustle, v.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 36: He belted out the restaurant with so much juice that the kitchen pots melted.
at juice, n.1
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 53: He loves even the hint of larceny.
at larceny, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 51: He issued a group of checks that were classified as ‘leapers.’.
at leaper, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 117: A transit item [i.e. a cheque] returned unpaid is known as a ‘bum map’ or a ‘frog.’.
at map, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 151: The kid came over, took a cigarette, and leaned over for a light [...] ‘Number wan.’.
at number one, adj.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 126: I have to go [...] and tap out on the trumpet player.
at tap out, v.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 32: He is up there [i.e. prison] to get straightened out, not to become a confidence man.
at straighten out, v.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 39: The take-out guy always wins. The Mechanic feeds him the cards.
at take-out guy (n.) under take out, v.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 158: You can be a rooter. But you just a rooter in the stands and that’s all.
at rooter, n.3
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 136: People [...] only see this big round-eye standing over the six poor Viet Cong prisoners.
at roundeye, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 9: So you like pressuring people, do you? [...] Who the hell are you to come around here like a shylock?
at shylock, n.
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 13: ‘I think you’re sick.’ [...] ‘No, I’m not. I just hate those people.’.
at sick, adj.1
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 113: Tab the plane tickets [...] as special research [...] but get me the scratchsky back.
at -ski, sfx
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 120: He lives over his head and has to make up for it by being a sneak.
at sneak, n.1
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 36: If you’re doing any good [...] we’ll square up.
at square up, v.2
[US] J. Breslin World of Jimmy Breslin (1968) 113: Tab the plane tickets [...] as special research [...] but get me the scratchsky back.
at tab, v.1
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