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[US] R. Chandler Playback 71: Cynical as a Park Avenue pet after her butter and egg man goes home.
at butter-and-egg man, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 190: We’ll put him away for a while.
at put away, v.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 195: He flicked a gold lighter at a gold-tipped cigarette. Big deal.
at big deal!, excl.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 124: They touch him big when they got a fund-raising drive.
at big, adv.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 172: You’ll just have to throw the book at me.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 196: Listen boy friend, I’m a pretty big man in this town.
at boyfriend (n.) under boy, n.2
[US] R. Chandler Playback 107: If you had taken an overdose, the homicide boys would be told.
at boys, the, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 46: Breeze off. You bore me.
at breeze, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 191: He got the brush [...] from Captain Alessandro.
at get the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 164: They got bumped off the staff of the hospital.
at bump, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 196: I laughed at him and that really burned him.
at burn, v.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 19: I take mine straight with a beer chaser.
at chaser, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 48: It had no false fronts, no cheesy billboards.
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] R. Chandler Playback 59: He chewed her face some more.
at chew someone’s face (v.) under chew, v.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 51: He’d be pretty sore if I was on the chisel.
at on the chisel under chisel, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 52: I just knew I’d picked a smart cookie.
at smart cookie (n.) under cookie, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 11: Been in the coop.
at coop, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 165: The cop house was part of a long, modernistic building.
at cop house (n.) under cop, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 71: You cracked me on the head with a whisky bottle.
at crack, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 122: Cut the doodads.
at cut, v.4
[US] R. Chandler Playback 75: Even if the cops didn’t grab him and toss him into the deep freeze.
at deep freeze (n.) under deep, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 33: They pay the bills, you dig the dirt.
at dirt, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 122: Cut the doodads.
at doodad, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 200: You probably knew the night-man was a doper.
at doper, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 42: I could drill you and get away with it.
at drill, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 50: They can drop the arm on you for shacking up.
at drop the arm on (v.) under drop, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 23: The girl [...] put the eye on me.
at put the eye on (v.) under eye, n.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 185: Like to fill us in a litttle, Mr. Kinsolving?
at fill in (on), v.
[US] R. Chandler Playback 36: Another flip, hard-boiled modern cutie.
at flip, adj.1
[US] R. Chandler Playback 208: Why don’t you go kiss a duck?
at go fuck a duck! (excl.) under fuck, v.
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