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You’re in the Racket, Too choose

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[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 60: Of course, if he’s copped a reeler you’ll have to skip it.
at cop a reeler (v.) under cop a..., v.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 248: I was sweating bricks.
at shit a brick, v.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 42: How’s about that for an idea?
at how about that (then)?, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 263: ‘You’ll have to sausage me a goose’s.’ ‘Sausage you a goose’s? What the hell are you talking about?’ [...] ‘Cash me a cheque, dopey.’.
at sausage a goose’s (v.) under sausage (and mash), v.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 152: I cops you tucked up in bye-bye with the old trouble and strife.
at trouble and strife, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 191: ‘Soon as I come out of that lot I gets lifted again for dragging a parcel out of the back of a delivery wagon.’ ‘Regular in-and-out boy, ain’t you?’.
at in-and-out boy, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 250: Look out of the window and see what’s on in the frog.
at frog (and toad), n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 39: This bloke you’re meeting up the Old Jacket and Vest to-night, let him push the boat out.
at jacket and vest, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 33: ‘Never mind, I’ll get a light from the old Anna Maria.’ He got up, went over to the fire, picked up a glowing coal with a pair of tongs, lit his cigarette.
at anna maria, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 187: Hallo, Snowey. How are you going on mate?
at how are you going?, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 138: What are you doing here, if I might ask, lying in bed in my house, as bold as brass?
at bold as brass (adj.) under bold as..., adj.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 219: You couldn’t hardly expect a girl to look at you when you was walking about with a raggedy-pants like that.
at ragged-ass, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 267: ‘Balloon?’ asked Len with his shoulder against the door of the saloon bar.
at balloon (car), n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 42: We could get married and open a little business down in the country, somewhere among the swede-bashers.
at swede-basher, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 130: Gordon Bennett. He wasn’t half tired.
at Gordon Bennett!, excl.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 214: I never said a dicky-bird.
at dicky-bird, n.2
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 204: Richard Lambert’s being blacked and all.
at black, v.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 210: Not that he cared much for darkies. Give him blondies every time.
at blondie, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 95: Things were beginning to break better now.
at break, v.2
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 120: I’ll chuck in this smother and brolly.
at brolly, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 245: ‘Caser,’ he said and put down two half-crowns.
at caser, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 35: It wouldn’t be worth the risk of carrying them through the streets for the two or three nicker you were going to pick up. Yes, a screwsman sure would catch a cold here.
at catch (a) cold (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 168: That’s not good enough, old man. Not by a long chalk.
at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 111: Still no sense in chewing the fat about something that had never even happened.
at chew the fat, v.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 188: I hope like hell next time we’re in the nick together I’m fixed as right as rain and you’re starving for a chew.
at chew, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 187: There might be quite a chance of having a right-looking cromo give him a tumble.
at chromo, n.
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 61: It’s a cinch, we’ll have it off sweet as a nut.
at cinch, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 220: It had been all cod what he had said last night.
at cod, n.5
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 29: If he were to get lifted he would cop out, being under the Act and all. It was a serious offence to be in possession of housebreaking implements by night.
at cop out, v.1
[UK] J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 259: The old man was as cute as a barrow-load of monkeys.
at cute as a... (adj.) under cute, adj.
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