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[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 186: I don’t like the racket, anyway - I was aced in.
at ace in (v.) under ace, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 47: Rose figures on airing everybody he ain’t sure of - he’s got a list .
at air, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 100: A couple of benders came in [...] They’d been waiting [...] to find out what they had to heist.
at bender, n.3
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 209: Fenner hasn’t played ball - I can stick it in him and break it off.
at break it off in, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 48: The play was to run it in, three cases to a launch, each trip. They’ve got a swell federal connection at the wharf.
at connection, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 20: I was about to cook up a couple loads [...] I’m down to two pipes every other day.
at cook up, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 60: She’s Scotch-screwy.
at -crazy, sfx
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 293: Well, ’m a dirty name - ish Gerry - good ol’ son of a bitch Gerry.
at I’ll be a dirty word! (excl.) under dirty, adj.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 146: Gilroy was [...] a heavyweight who had been at the top of his class [...] The dopesters said he’d lost everything he ever had.
at dopester, n.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 211: You’ll have to duck while he’s here, baby [...] He’s the undercover legal representative for the Bellman administration.
at duck, v.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 17: Dave is cold with an egg over his ear.
at egg, n.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 267: You’re going to stay here - and Fat is going to stay here.
at fat, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 250: Turn her over to me in the open and without any finaygling.
at finagle, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 127: The greaser kept fingering a chiv [...] the old noiseless ear-to-ear gag.
at gag, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 30: Remember, Jakie [,,,] I get mad when a goose tries to run out on me.
at goose, n.2
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 29: You’re a swell driver, Jakie. You should’ve stayed in the hack racket.
at hack, n.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 212: I’m going to turn on the heat [...] only this time I’m going to make it pay.
at turn on the heat (v.) under heat, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 78: You put twenty-five thousand dollars in cash on the line and you get enough to put the election on ice.
at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 240: Kells bought ome aspirin, swallowed two tablets. Borg said [...] ‘That junk don’t do you no good’.
at junk, n.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 214: Hang on the front of that place until you see three big pig-skin keesters go in.
at keister, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 209: The whole layout is against you now - Crotti, Rose, Fenner, the Bellman people . . .
at layout, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 90: Politician Plugged as Prowler by Light Lady.
at light woman (n.) under light, adj.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 206: Maybe I’d better have one more load in the arm, Doc.
at load, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 49: He’s the Lou they were waiting for on the boat - so they could let you have it resisting arrest - make it legal.
at looie, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 192: The navigator telling the boys what a swell lot of hash they’d make if he let go with that meat grinder.
at meat-grinder (n.) under meat, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 158: I’ve got Fenner’s cheque too and somewhere around ten grand soft.
at soft money, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 199: he shook his head sadly, without looking up. ‘Slug-nutty’.
at -nutty, sfx
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 206: Maybe I’d better have one more load in the arm, Doc -to sort of taper off on.
at taper off, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 253: Tell that cab driver to sit on it - we’ll be out in a little while.
at sit on it (v.) under sit on, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ Fast One (1936) 71: That’s a pipe - it was one of the Barrymores.
at pipe, n.2
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