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[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s to Crime in DU (1949) 9: This idea [...] is a lot of apcray.
at apcray, n.
[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton Men of the Und. 220: They [...] got bummed to death by girls chiseling cigarettes.
at chisel, v.
[US] in C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton Men of the Und. 221: Everything’s chisel in this business.
at chisel, n.
[US] in C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton Men of the Und. 220: A gang of these new-fashioned little chippies ganging him for ciggies.
at ciggie, n.
[US] in C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton (1952) ) 221: There’s no drunkenness [...] she can go home as clean as when she left there.
at clean, adj.
[US] in C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton Men of the Und. 20: I don’t fake the customers.
at fake, v.1
[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s to Crime n.p.: Commonly it now being called ‘fu’, ‘mezz’, ‘mu’, ‘moocah’, ‘muggles’, ‘weed’ and ‘reefers’.
at fu, n.
[US] in C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton Men of the Und. 221: He was into so many things — owning a piece of a drugstore here, a restaurant there.
at into, prep.3
[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime in Hamilton Men of the Und. 216: Pari-mutuel race tracks operate on a ‘kitty’ basis.
at kitty, n.1
[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s to Crime n.p.: Commonly it now being called ‘fu’, ‘mezz’, ‘mu’, ‘moocah’, ‘muggles’, ‘weed’ and ‘reefers’.
at mooca, n.
[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s to Crime n.p.: Commonly it is now being called ‘fu’, ‘mezz’, ‘mu’, ‘moocah’, ‘muggles’, ‘weed’ and ‘reefers’.
at mu, n.
[US] C.R. Cooper Here’s To Crime 160: If, however, he runs a horse joint, which operates through any of the seven or eight big gangs which have split major control of the United States between them, he is a gang commissioner instead of a betting commissioner.
at horse joint (n.) under horse, n.
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