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Run, Chico, Run choose

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[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 25: ‘You see him around last night?’ ‘Naw. Oscar wouldn’t let him out that late.’ [...] ‘Yeah, I’ll bet.’.
at I’ll bet under bet, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 20: There were dark alleyways where snowbirds and stumblebums lurked in the shadows, cats that would swish you even for a dime.
at snow bird, n.2
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 23: The cops will break my head if they know I’m coverin’ for Tomas.
at break someone’s face, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 16: Ya can’t take no chances. What if Shadu bumps off? Do we let the nabs take us sleepin’?
at bump (off), v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 33: We’re supposed to be catting up in case the nabs have wised up to us and you make such a row maybe the neighbours call the cops.
at cat up, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 17: ‘The trim’s not bad. Let’s pull a midnight review.’ ‘Cut it,’ Thomas ordered. ‘We ain’t got no time to cat around.’.
at cat, v.1
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 20: Congo Dewey came down from Harlem to collect for the policy racket.
at congo, n.2
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 18: We’re going to a daisy joint and Loco’s getting some tea. You beat it.
at daisy, adj.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 23: The fat man was behind his counter, hunched over a dope sheet.
at dope book (n.) under dope, n.3
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 38: His partner wouldn’t be any droopy-looking blonde witch like his father had.
at droopy, adj.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 8: Sam ran a drop-house and sold reefers to the high-school kids at a buck apiece.
at drop joint (n.) under drop, n.1
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 21: Beneath the bed there were a couple of empties.
at empty, n.1
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 20: The nabs gave the poolroom the eye, climbed the stairs to Mamma Lina’s for a cold beer or stopped to chat with Candy Sam.
at give someone the eye (v.) under eye, n.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 6: You couldn’t go into the room because the old man had his fancy trim in there. You knew because you could smell her perfume through the crack of the door.
at fancy woman, n.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 25: Why’d he hot-heel it out of there?
at hot foot, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 37: He’d been hitting the tea, but plenty.
at hit, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 33: Every time Loco gets hung up he starts moshing me around.
at hung up, adj.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 18: Why not let the kid come? I bet he ain’t never had no jam. Pitcher’ll toss him plenty.
at jam, n.3
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 22: Geezuz, it took a man to pull a score, didn’t it?
at jeez!, excl.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 15: Come on, Chico. Come on, keed. Get in and make it snappy.
at keed, n.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 8: A cigarette; a plain-clothes waiting to make a pull wouldn’t light up.
at light up, v.1
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 27: Other cats, they’re on the make – that’s plain enough.
at on the make under make, n.2
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 33: Every time Loco gets hung up he starts moshing me around.
at mosh, v.2
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 32: ‘What goes on here, Loco?’ [...] ‘Nada – nothing.’.
at nada, n.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 20: Nobody on the block would open up to the nabs.
at open up (v.) under open, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 35: Go back and keep your eyes skinned. If anything pops in the block you find Lucy and tell her about it.
at pop, v.1
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 8: A cigarette; a plain-clothes waiting to make a pull wouldn’t light up.
at pull, n.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 31: No hijo de puta like him puts nothing across on Loco, See?
at put it across (v.) under put, v.1
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 33: I’m going to skrag the no-good bastard. God help me, I’ll skrag him.
at scrag, v.
[US] W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 8: They’d questioned him for almost an hour about some ice they claimed he’d scragged from a dame in a downtown night club.
at scrag, v.
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