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The One-Way Ride choose

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[US] W. Noble Burns One-Way Ride 35: Piggy Joyce, once a pork-and-beans grifter, thought nothing of losing or winning $50,000 a night.
at pork-and-beans, adj.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 6: Vincenzo Cosmano [...] tried the effect of a skull-and-crossbones missive on Colosimo and was riddled with buckshot.
at skull and crossbones, n.
[US] W. Noble Burns One-Way Ride 148: Tropea was a bad egg.
at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 64: Gangland whispered that Jew Ben at last had heard ‘the bad news.’ While Newark was undressing for bed [...] an assassin killed him with a shot fired through a closed window.
at bad news, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 284: He’d have been a bear-cat as a Central Bureau dick.
at bear cat (n.) under bear, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 19: Big Jim never bilked a pal.
at bilk, v.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 86: He remained hard-boiled even in a hard-boiled shirt.
at hard-boiled shirt (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 95: Morgan Collins, his chief of police, launched an honest drive against the bootleg ring.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 37: Torrio and Capone invaded Cicero in October, 1923, and annexed it like a conquered province to their bootleg kingdom.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 43: Rocco Fannelli, and Danny Vallo, directors of beer and booze running.
at booze, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 69: That young bravo [...] had erred gravely in killing him.
at bravo, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 75: Paddy the Bear [...] beat him black and blue and wound up by lifting the Runt out into the street on the toe of a heavy brogan.
at brogan, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 195: He was a bull-head and thought he was smarter than he was. That’s the reason he’s dead.
at bull-head, n.1
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 161: His success, they sneered, was an accident. He was a busher.
at busher, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 78: An old chaw, puffing his dudeen by a barroom stove [...] might spin a yarn about him.
at chaw, n.
[US] W. Noble Burns One-Way Ride 138: The look of a stolid, rough-hewn clodhopper who might have lived peacefully all his life in a hut on the slopes of Stromboli.
at clodhopper, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 93: They set hundreds of their countrymen to work cooking alcohol in the tenements of the West Side Italian quarter. [Ibid.] 130: Captain John Stege, in a police raid in the neighborhood of Genna headquarters [...] broke up thirty alcohol cookeries with a capacity of 20,000 gallons a week.
at cook, v.1
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 3: Gentleman Jim Corbett telling John McCormack how he put old John L. down for the count.
at down for the count under count, n.3
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 21: And when murder became necessary Torrio pressed a buzzer, issued an order to his gunmen as to so many counter-jumping clerks, and left the details to them.
at counter-jumper, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 35: Cracksmen assembled to blow a safe had the appearance of dandies gathered for wafers and tea at some function of splash society.
at cracksman, n.1
[US] W. Noble Burns One-Way Ride 311: According to the public [...] If I happen to fall for a doll, and she has a sweetie, I shoot the sweetie and cop the frail.
at doll, n.1
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 3: A group of young blades from the Gold Coast, bleary eyed and noisy, turning down highballs.
at turn down, v.1
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 81: He was a hot-tempered fellow [...] mixing in many knock-down and drag-out rows.
at drag-out, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 160: He’ll make a fizzle of the job, of course.
at fizzle, n.2
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 77: This man of the underworld [...] lived like a prince, surrounded by flunkies.
at flunky, n.2
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 184: You are just a four-flush. You shoot off your mouth too much.
at four-flusher, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 74: Here, with a dirty apron tied about his waist, Paddy the Bear held his court, sold his beer and tanglefoot.
at tangle-foot, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 81: He was known to the patrons as Gimpy O’Bannion; he limped slightly.
at gimpy, n.
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 310: When the police are too dumb to solve a crime, I’m always somewhere in the background as the brains of the job. I’m the official goat of the Chicago police department.
at goat, n.2
[US] W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 57: I’ve got the goods on you. You and John Novotney and Max Kasper and George Stober robbed that bank out in LaGrange.
at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
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