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[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: That’s your way – in the dark, so’s you can hide, and frame, and fix, and grab, till everybody’s rotten with fear and don’t-give-a-damn, and a man can’t call his soul his own.
at don’t-give-a-damn (adj.) under not give a damn, v.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: Wait’ll I tell it to you, you big balloon! You’ll burst.
at balloon, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: Afraid the witness’d get banged, uh?
at bang, v.2
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: Afraid the witness’d get banged, uh?
at banged up, adj.1
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: Get in there! You bantam, you got a lot o’ gall, but no brains—like all you young ones.
at bantam, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: Listen! You get off base with Joe Scarsi and you’ll get tagged out, like the last one who tried to take one of Nick’s friends for a ride.
at off base (adj.) under base, n.2
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: This respectable public that’s been keepin’ you awake at nights’d come down on you like a ton o’ brick.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: They’ve got a lot of our leadin’ businessmen on their backs, takin’ candy from them.
at candy, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: They made some more o’ those pre-election raids [...] those cathouses out South.
at cat-house, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: Choke it. We don’t want any trouble with you.
at choke, v.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: You used to stall – tease along the come-ons – for Beauty Parker’s mob.
at come-on, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: I’ll knock your whole Organization cuckoo!
at knock cuckoo (v.) under cuckoo, adj.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: (He drinks the rest of the whiskey) [...] pratt: You’d better cut that stuff. miller: It’s cut plenty before I get it.
at cut, v.6
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: ‘Old Dogs—,’ Miss Hayes!
at old dog, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: Those donkeys’re too busy fightin’ among ’emselves to vote.
at donkey, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: Why, anybody who carries less than a thirty-eight in this town’s a fairy.
at thirty-eight, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: Did you fan him?
at fan, v.1
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: Orders, flypaper! I’ll give the orders tonight.
at flypaper (n.) under fly, n.3
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: They can’t hang this on you!
at hang something on (v.) under hang, v.2
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: That special investigatin’ grand jury o’ prominent high-hats.
at high hat, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: This is Miller again, out to hellangone.
at to hell and gone under hell, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: gill: (Taking the flask) Hittin’ it heavy, eh?
at hit it, v.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: This ward’s full o’ respectable home-folks.
at home folks (n.) under home, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: Horses!
at horses!, excl.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: He had a hot car.
at hot, adj.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act III: Well, with the jimmies you old woman’re in it’s a wonder you didn’t phone McQuigg.
at jimmies, n.1
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: You better tell the men out back to ditch their cards and get the lead out o’ their pants.
at get the lead out (v.) under lead, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act II: I told you we were nuts to lope out here.
at lope, v.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: Did he see the pinch jump when he heard my name?
at pinch, n.
[US] B. Cormack Racket Act I: Listen! You get off base with Joe Scarsi and you’ll get tagged out, like the last one who tried to take one of Nick’s friends for a ride.
at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
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