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[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 340: A man like me wasn’t worth a plug nickel.
at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 215: When Orninski opened his mouth, it was because he had something to say. He wasn’t just airing his tonsils.
at air one’s tonsils (v.) under air, v.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 46: Coffey [...] began giving Mel this big song and dance about being careful.
at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 302: He tried to cover up by smart-assing.
at smart-arse, v.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 376: It looked to Mel like they were just ass-end up and that was it, sad movies.
at ass-end-backwards under ass, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 290: Some suck-ass that didn’t know an exhaust pipe from an ignition key.
at suck-ass, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 296: Delft was barrel-assing toward the other end and not even looking.
at barrel-ass, v.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 442: This shit-assed bunch of cons kept bitching about sending food in.
at shit-ass, adj.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 339: It’s too awesome even to contemplate.
at awesome, adj.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 119: Jimmy made B.M. in the potty.
at B.M., n.2
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 286: Everybody hooting and hollering to beat the band, having a hell of a time giving old Manson the bird.
at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 289: He never in his life set out to hurt anyone like that, ganging up on some guy and pounding the shit out of him.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 217: I hear he’s talking very big these days.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 286: Everybody hooting and hollering to beat the band, having a hell of a time giving old Manson the bird.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 50: I was thinking of shoving it. It’s for the birds.
at for the birds under bird, n.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 217: I hear Verdun was blowing off over there last night.
at blow, v.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 173: Everybody started chickenshitting around then, razzing and blowing off.
at blow off, v.2
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 119: He was up in Maynard, boozing it up with the Governor.
at booze up, v.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 226: Looking at Mel through those great big milk-bottle bottoms that he wore [...] that made his eyes seem ready to pop out.
at coke bottle glasses, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 180: He’s a bottle baby, Flash.
at bottle baby (n.) under bottle, n.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 177: The kid’s nine, and I’d just as soon his old man didn’t have to show up in bracelets.
at bracelets, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 9: What’smatter? The old breadbasket getting empty?
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 437: It don’t really look like anybody is exactly breaking their hump getting any breakfast to us.
at break one’s hump (v.) under break, v.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 35: It felt good just shooting the breeze and taking it easy.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 62: When you hit the bricks, you know, you gotta work, you gotta find a job.
at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 181: Just Bubblebrain up to his usual tricks.
at bubblehead, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 175: They had him in the tailor shop before and then they buck-slipped him over to me.
at buck, v.5
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 286: You could see that even Orninski – well, he was just buffaloed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 237: You couldn’t go around thinking all the time about getting out. You’d just bug up.
at bug up (v.) under bug, v.6
[US] G. Cuomo Among Thieves 32: He was bored out of his skull, and could see where he’d really go bughouse if he had to keep doing this.
at go bughouse (v.) under bughouse, adj.1
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