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[UK] P. Cheyney You Can Always Duck (1959) 11: There was nothin’ too bad to say about that boyo.
at boyo, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney You Can Always Duck (1959) 53: This bar-tender is an interestin’ sorta guy. A dead pan. Nothin’ seems to worry him.
at deadpan, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney You Can Always Duck (1959) 8: Half the guys in Hollywood was tryin’ to marry this frill.
at frill, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney You Can Always Duck (1959) 170: If you think I’m gonna be heisted by a cheap thug like you, you made a mistake.
at heist, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney You Can Always Duck (1959) 75: You can’t hang any murder rap on me.
at murder rap (n.) under murder, n.
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