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[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 15: Don’t try coppin’ a sneak.
at cop a sneak (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 34: Manny Ostrava hinted at it when he gave us the air.
at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 58: Nobody [there] except the counterman in the all-nighter.
at all-nighter, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 73: Glass of something amber always in his hand for effect.
at amber, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 92: Chances were, an old drunk told him, they’d give him two days on the D and D.
at d and d, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 27: Their images distorted by the console flasher on the black-and-white.
at black and white, n.1
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 26: He could call his agent and let her work the angles, but they would mean she’d have him by the shorts forever and ever.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 85: Last I heard, she was working as a salesgirl in a five-and-dime.
at five and dime, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 193: I’m home and not feeling too good when Sheila calls and lays the arm on me. I won’t call it blackmail, but I don’t know what else you’d call it.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 210: If they’d thought that Whistler’s sudden appearance was going to send Barcaloo into a dither, they were dead-ass wrong. He stared at Whistler like he was just another citizen waiting at a bus stop.
at dead-ass, adv.2
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 4: Actresses of considerable fame pranced around on stilletto heels wearing nothing but horsehair tails belted to their rumps and men of wealth and power rode them bare-assed.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 87: Ready to drop the others in the pot to save his own ass from excution.
at save one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 42: Who gives a rat’s ass?
at rat’s ass, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 164: Pinole had been blown away in the harshest way, and it was clear that Rojo intended to make someone pay for it.
at blow (someone) away, v.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 73: Eddie Deane, a reporter who worked the crime beat.
at beat, n.1
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 154: Some jerkoff wanting footage of his woman getting fucked and having it off with another woman. So, all right, she could get behind that.
at get behind (v.) under behind, prep.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 91: We got crank calls pouring in, some from gazoonies threatening to blow his fucking head off for bending over.
at bend over (for) (v.) under bend, v.1
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 7: As long as you let him be big daddy, he’d make your life sweeter.
at big daddy, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 63: I’m no bird dog for a newspaper.
at bird dog, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 189: I don’t want some gonifs coming in here robbing me blind while I show you my merchandise.
at rob blind (v.) under blind, adv.1
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 42: They didn’t book you on drunk driving?
at book, v.1
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 17: Five’ll get you twenty they’ll drop the book on you.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 10: The rain had washed all the baby prostitutes and twangy boys, the chicken hawks and queer bashers, the gonifs and petty grifters off the four corners of Hollywood and Vine. [Ibid.] 96: It was the big mamas and papas who gave birth to the petty pimps, hookers, ass smashers, juice squeezers, child buyers, twangy boys, and street gonifs.
at twangy boy, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 17: Five’ll get you fifty they’d [i.e. the police] like to bring you down.
at bring down, v.2
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 42: I’m a big tipper. I even tip people who give me lousy service and bum steers.
at bum steer (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 173: They stared at each other, old friends almost about to get busted up because of a woman.
at bust up, v.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 121: Then we get the Caddie over for the new paint job.
at Caddy, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 143: Turn around and lift your tail. All right, you ain’t carryin’. You’re no fool. We’re hard on Private Johnny Hams what come aroun’ totin’ iron.
at carry, v.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 82: A male Cauc killed in collision with a pole.
at Cauc, n.
[US] R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 149: He was brought down by the worst charley horse ever known in Louisiana sports.
at charley horse, n.
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