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[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Now he was showing his gratitude by being drunker than a fiddler’s bitch.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 I swerved my wheel, slapped on my emergency anchors, missed the yellow-haired wren by a whisker.
at anchor, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 I’m trying to save up a retirement fund before some sharp apple prints my name on a bullet.
at apple, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Cooked!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Dr. Lambert had fallen neck-over-appetite in love with a cute little bleached-blonde extra.
at ass over appetite under ass, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Broken Melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 ‘Stow it!’ I beefed at him. ‘I’m Dan Turner, private dick!’.
at beef, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 That startled the bejaspers out of me.
at bejabers, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Broken melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Her answering move startled the bejoseph out of me.
at bejazus, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Malibu Mess’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 The spy had overheard Bat Romani about to belch and had browned the chunky hood with my gat.
at belch, v.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Cooked!’ Dan Turner Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 I tipped the bell-hop four bits and said: ’Scram, kid.‘.
at bit, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Malibu Mess’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Her voluptuous bonbons surged under the bodice of her frock.
at bonbon, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Broken Melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Like a sap, I took my lamps off you for a minute. And you browned her.
at brown, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Broken Melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 ‘Drive, señor!’ I headed my bucket toward nowhere in particular.
at bucket, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 He tries to kill you, and you ask Mike to be careful with him! Better you should let that no-good bummer go back to Diane Ravenne.
at bummer, n.3
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Daughter of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 I tensed as the carrot-thatched cupcake staggered out over the threshold.
at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Million Buck Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 ‘I catch!’ he said. ‘Tong-war stuff. I recognize this dead Chink’.
at catch, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Malibu Mess’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Come in and tell me what cooks.
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Million Buck Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Cripes—is this Dan Turner? I didn’t know—.
at cripes!, excl.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Daughter of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 I could tab the upper halves of her full, rounded doo-dads nestling in the lacy cups of an uplift bandeau.
at doodad, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 O’Connell gasped and went sprawling with a slug through his dream-box.
at dreambox (n.) under dream, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Million Buck Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Then he looked at the egg on my temple and said: [...] ‘If your skull wasn’t so thick you’d probably have had a fracture’.
at goose egg, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Malibu Mess’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 ‘You won’t get away with it, though. I’ll—’ He raised his equalizer.
at equalizer, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Million Buck Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 saw a slant-eyed Chinese waiter go down, punch the floor with his flat face.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 You paid her a stack of cabbage to make him fall off the wagon.
at fall off the (water) wagon (v.) under fall, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Million Buck Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Then I massaged that Easter-egg on my skull where that dumb flatty had conked me.
at flattie, n.3
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Malibu Mess’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Yes, we’ve been on parties together. But whenever I let you get gay with me it was because I liked you, see?
at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Broken melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Like a sap, I took my lamps off you for a minute.
at gig-lamps, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Cooked!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 A Filipino house-boy finally opened up for us. I said: ‘We want to see Mr. Lerch. Tell him it’s the cops.’ The gugu widened his eyes.
at goo-goo, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 It was rumored that he had been goofy over Kathie at one time.
at goofy, adj.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Cooked!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 It was up to me to step into the picture and put the grab on him.
at grab, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Stand still, grease-ball — before I drill for oil in your ellybay!
at greaseball, n.
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