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[US] Detective Fiction Weekly 8 Sept. 564/2: [heading] International crooks I have known; No. 6 – ‘Gentleman George’, pick-up man.
at pick-up, n.
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly 11 Aug. 735/2: We learned that the State still had one reliable witness, who could ‘put us on the spot’.
at put on the spot (v.) under spot, n.3
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly 2 Mar. 694/2: One ‘nips the slag’ when one cuts the watch chain, a practice practically defunct now.
at slag, n.2
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly 5 July 357/1: Well, boys, take me down [to the police station]. Just one snifter of snow and I’m with you.
at snifter, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Dead Steal’ Detective Fiction Weekly 13 June 🌐 That boat looks and runs like new!
at boat, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Dead Steal’ Detective Fiction Weekly 13 June 🌐 The stranger had studied the six motors on the fly-by-night used car lot.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Dead Steal’ Detective Fiction Weekly 13 June 🌐 ‘Can you keep a secret?’ ‘Shoot—you’re faded.’.
at shoot!, excl.2
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly (US) 21 Apr. in DU (1949).
at pride and joy, n.
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly (US) 21 Apr. in DU (1949).
at club and stick, n.
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly (US) 21 Apr. in DU (1949).
at Andy McGinn, n.
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly 18 Mar. 59/1: If you should happen to hear anybody speaking of a suey-pow or a joy-pop or of gowing out the lemon bowl, [...] bring him right here [OED].
at gow, v.1
[US] Detective Fiction Weekly 18 Mar. 59/1: If you should happen to hear anybody speaking of a suey-pow or a joy-pop or of gowing out the lemon bowl, [...] bring him right here .
at joy pop, n.
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