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[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 83: The bulls strong-armed me up to Markle’s office.
at strong-arm, v.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 3: I [...] don’t like to play ring-around-the-rosie.
at ring around the rosy, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 47: You’re getting to be a pain in the ass.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 12: You [...] did something the big man didn’t like.
at big man (n.) under big, adj.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 101: The same copper I’d blown in was behind the wheel.
at blow in, v.3
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 52: Hendricks, along with four menacing blue coats [...] hovered over me hungrily.
at bluecoat, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 58: I had to be on my tippy-toes, now that the state boys were after me.
at boys, the, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 54: You expect me to believe that pansy was the brains in a half million dollar caper.
at brain, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 9: Everything was lavish and class, nothing like those two-grand bumps.
at bump(-off), n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 39: I started to burn some.
at burn, v.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 5: Right now, I want you to take care of business.
at take care of business, v.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 95: It was a cannon, but I just might need a cannon tonight.
at cannon, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 54: You expect me to believe that pansy was the brains in a half million dollar caper.
at caper, n.2
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 10: I pulled the Chevvy around in front and got out.
at Chevvy, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 86: I had things nicely figured out with Lilly clipped as the head man.
at clip, v.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 3: I cound’t see the sense in Lou Pulco sending me all the way to the Coast.
at Coast, the, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 7: I came down, like a junkie.
at come down, v.3
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 98: We crossed over to New York [...] where we met the connect.
at connection, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 72: Whoever called the cops thought I’d still be cooled there in the house.
at cool, v.2
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 98: He had to wait until things got cooler.
at cool, adj.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 29: He spoke to a doll with very long but shapely legs.
at doll, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 68: It wouldn’t have been difficult for him to play duck shoot while I drooled all over the floor.
at duck shoot (n.) under duck, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 64: He was fed up with Lilly short-changing him.
at fed up, adj.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 112: Pulco was hotfooting it out on the beach.
at hot foot, v.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 109: I labeled you a pantie freak.
at freak, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 64: I’m not gonna fry-ass by myself.
at fry ass (v.) under fry, v.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 3: I coundn’t see the sense in Lou Pulco sending me [...] to the Coast to play hotsy-totsy with a gay boy.
at gay boy (n.) under gay, adj.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 24: Making sure my pumpernickel pal got a good glimmer before I set off.
at glimmer, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 86: Naida was trying to make me the goat.
at goat, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 43: The rub-out guy had a lot of his plans goofed this evening.
at goofed (up), adj.
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