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[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 171: You should see all the outgoing personal correspondence to muckety-mucks I have to deal with.
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: ‘How’d you hear?’ ‘Jawed with him on the Ameche.’.
at ameche, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 254: ‘We have to go now.’ Mahoney nodded. ‘Blow, hoof, dust, fade, breeze, slide, heel and toe, grab sidewalk, leave leather, drivin’ the shoe car . . .’.
at heel-and-toe, v.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 36: ‘Whenever I cross the Broward line, I get all jelly-like inside.’ [...] ‘That happens to me on orange blotter.’.
at blotter, n.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 254: ‘We have to go now.’ Mahoney nodded. ‘Blow, hoof, dust, fade, breeze, slide, heel and toe, grab sidewalk, leave leather, drivin’ the shoe car . . .’.
at breeze, v.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: ‘What jumps into your head?’ [...] ‘Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, [...] giving a canary the Broderick . . .’.
at canary, n.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: ‘What jumps into your head?’ [...] ‘Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, a chippie with boss getaway sticks.’.
at Chicago overcoat (n.) under Chicago, adj.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 217: Get the hell out of my way, ya chowderhead.
at chowder-head, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: Should have strapped iron and put daylight into the hinky shamus who dropped the dime.
at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 254: ‘We have to go now.’ Mahoney nodded. ‘Blow, hoof, dust, fade, breeze, slide, heel and toe, grab sidewalk, leave leather, drivin’ the shoe car . . .’.
at fade, v.2
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: ‘What jumps into your head?’ [...] ‘Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, a chippie with boss getaway sticks [...]’.
at Harlem sunset (n.) under Harlem, adj.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 254: ‘We have to go now.’ Mahoney nodded. ‘Blow, hoof, dust, fade, breeze, slide, heel and toe, grab sidewalk, leave leather, drivin’ the shoe car . . .’.
at hoof, v.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: Mahoney read the letter and began smiling. ‘Underwood jockey. Regular Spillane.’.
at jockey, n.2
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: ‘It’s about Serge.’ ‘Regular wiseguy. Didn’t dance straight. Ran with a wrong-number dizzy for the juju.’.
at ju-ju, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: You a news-fink? My trap’s zipped.
at zip one’s lip, v.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 230: I get loced after dark.
at loced (out) (adj.) under loc out, v.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 198: One part Maui-Wowee rad resin weed that makes you see the Devil.
at Mauie Wowie, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: On the other side, a man was pacing. [...] Talking to himself: ‘Need to run down the Chinese angle on the shylock’s mazuma [...]’.
at mazuma, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: On the other side, a man was pacing. [...] Talking to himself: ‘Need to run down the Chinese angle on the shylock’s mazuma before the twist cops a roscoe and squirts metal at the brunos.’.
at metal, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: ‘Juju?’ said Bixby. ‘Muggles,’ said Mahoney. Miller turned to Bixby. ‘Marijuana.’.
at muggle, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: ‘What’s the last you heard?’ ’He was mixing with some trouble boys on the flimflam, putting screws to a Peterman after the box job.’.
at peterman (n.) under peter, n.3
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 54: ‘[Impossible]’s my middle name,’ said Lenny, lighting a pin joint.
at pin joint (n.) under pin, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 115: I just know he didn’t drown. Someone punched his ticket.
at punch someone’s ticket (v.) under punch, v.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 198: One part Maui-Wowee rad resin weed that makes you see the Devil.
at rad, adj.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: ‘What’s the last you heard?’ ‘He was mixing with some trouble boys on the flimflam, putting screws to a Peterman after the box job.’.
at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: Should have strapped iron and put daylight into the hinky shamus who dropped the dime.
at shamus, n.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 188: But the stress was too much [...] Now he’s a drool-farmer in the silly house.
at silly house (n.) under silly, adj.
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: ‘What jumps into your head?’ [...] ‘Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, [...].’.
at skee, n.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: ‘What jumps into your head?’ [...] ‘Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, a chippie with boss getaway sticks [...]’.
at sticks, n.1
[US] T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 189: ‘It’s about Serge.’ ‘Regular wiseguy. Didn’t dance straight. Ran with a wrong-number dizzy for the juju.’.
at wrong number (n.) under wrong, adj.
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