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[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] That didn’t mean the old bat’s all-seeing eyes weren’t on us.
at old bat (n.) under bat, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] If you want the big boys to notice you, you don’t leave loose ends to run out of town.
at big boy, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] A bottle blonde sat beside him reapplying lipstick.
at bottle blond(e) (n.) under bottle, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] It must have burned him more than anything to have Cardone beat him to the punch.
at burn, v.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] You work ’em up, get ’em good and thirsty. But no more monkey business.
at monkey business, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Still they come, content with their role as arm candy for the big shots as long as it keeps them in mink.
at arm candy (n.) under candy, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] You just keeps those mitts up, capice?
at capeesh, phr.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] My fee was chickenfeed [...] The real dough in a fix was the bets.
at chickenfeed, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] he was angry, that much was clear. What he might do about it was clear as mud.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] You ought to be on cloud nine, all the dough you’re into.
at cloud nine, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] I cold-cocked a fat guy in a hat.
at cold-cock, v.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] I knew his finger danced on the trigger, waiting to teach me a lesson about crossing him.
at cross, v.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] ‘People might expect you to win. So, I want you to lose.’ Take a dive [...] I guess I deserved it.
at take a dive (v.) under dive, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] She knew the drill. I’d meet her out front. She couldn’t make it to the locker rooms.
at drill, the, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Whit put his dukes up and faked a few short jabs.
at duke, n.3
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Who was I to get him in Dutch with Cardone over my problem?
at in Dutch under Dutch, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] I’ve got a problem [...] a problem I don’t know how to solve [...] I’m really behind the eightball on this one.
at behind the eightball under eightball, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] If that greasy eye-tie wants to disrespect me [...] he’s got another think coming.
at Eyetie, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] One fat guy sent another backwards, but the crowd of bloodthirsty savages behind him threw fatty back into the mix.
at fatty, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] I got a lot of guys noticing me. Big time guys. Bigger fish than Cardone. He’s a freakin’ sardine next to the guys got my back.
at big fish (n.) under fish, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] The idea of a fix didn’t sit well with me. Even if I came out on the winning side.
at fix, n.2
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Man, I was a heel for not thinking about him first.
at heel, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] The young gun he put in to spar with me must have thought he was hot stuff.
at hot stuff, n.2
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Tjhat five hundred would be out of my pocket and onto her finger in a jiffy.
at jiffy, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Whit’s driver Johnny-on-the-spot to pick up the boss man.
at johnny-on-the-spot, adv.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] You got knocked loopy. Maybe I wasn’t watching that part.
at loopy, adj.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] The only thing I’m loopy about is you, doll.
at loopy, adj.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] If some big lug hit me with cannon balls for fists, I was sunk.
at lug, n.2
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] I don’t like Mr Cardone [...] Treats me like a child, that meatball.
at meatball, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] Now that I didn’t have to worry about making nice with Whit, I could let that tiger out of its cage.
at make nice (v.) under nice, adj.1
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