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[US] G. Barker True Confessions 8: Immortality, a white slime.
at slime, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 52: There was some that thought the poor man was in his dotage when he made a boy like yourself such a high monkey-monk.
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 115: No copping a plea. No pointing a finger.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 40: ‘You know McGovern’s?’ Crotty said. A chance to recover for Bingo [...] ‘The Pope a ginney?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 319: She must have done it with pliers and a screwdriver. It was real amateur night.
at amateur night (n.) under amateur, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 232: Ambulance chasing is what you’d call it, you want to put a dirty name to it [i.e. insurance fraud by lawyers].
at ambulance-chasing (n.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 250: Tits and ass were the missing link, that was simple. He wondered how many little boys were beating their meat into the Express.
at tits and ass, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 28: An ass-kissing clerk, Fuqua. Just the qualifications for chief of homicide.
at ass-kissing, adj.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 66: ‘You know how to play carnival?’ ‘I don’t know that one, no.’ ‘I sit on your face and you try to guess my weight.’.
at play carnival (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[US] J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 35: We’ll get the bagel to take a few pictures.
at bagel, n.
[US] J.G. Dunne True Confessions 32: Show me a job you run into a bad person sometime. I’ll show you a bagel-bender doesn’t want it.
at bagel bender (n.) under bagel, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 162: When you were running whores [...] I was your bagman in Wilshire Vice. I did the payoffs.
at bagman, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 32: He had so much vaseline up his asshole [...] every battlewagon in that joint’d been up it, I bet.
at battle wagon (n.) under battle, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 67: She took bed for granted, knew more about it, in fact, than he could concoct in his wildest dreams.
at bed, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 91: He was belting it, I bet. And saying ooohhh and aaahhh on the telephone.
at belt it (v.) under belt, v.
[US] J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 14: ‘And blessed is the fruit of thy womb . . . .’ (This is where Moira really belts it), ‘. . . Jay-sus.’.
at belt it out (v.) under belt, v.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 141: Maybe feeling that way was Seamus Fargo’s edge. A tough old bird.
at old bird, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 107: That’s all we need [...] a blabbermouth fifteen-dollar hooker.
at blabbermouth, adj.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 250: The fluctuating baseline of the writing reveals the writer to be affected [...] Blah, blah, blah, blah.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 52: The thick frosting of blarney with the brain clicking away under it.
at blarney, n.1
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 164: Look for rosary beads in the crotch. Crucifixes. Scapulars [...] A definite pattern of Catholic boffing.
at boff, v.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 156: ‘You been boning up.’ ‘He who is prepared, Tommy, is never surprised.’.
at bone, v.3
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 159: Pumping me [...] like I’m some sort of harp booby.
at booby, n.1
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 85: That’s a gas-chamber bounce. [Ibid.] 95: ‘He’ll shoot it out.’ ‘You can bet your sweet ass he will with a 207. That’s a gas chamber bounce.’.
at bounce, n.1
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 248: You go to Catalina for the day, boyo, and I’ll toss you a Welcome Home Dinner, too.
at boyo, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 232: When’s the last time Robbery-Homicide broke its hump for a dead Mex?
at break one’s hump (v.) under break, v.1
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 66: There were lots of clothes, actually, if you believed all the breathers calling in.
at breather, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 110: You open your face about this [...] you’ll be walking the bricks out of 77th Street.
at walk the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 230: ‘She works Lower Sunset now.’ [...] ‘Lower Sunset,’ Tom Spellacy said. ‘On the bricks?’.
at on the bricks under bricks, n.
[US] (con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 95: An old bull, a lifer, had tried to ram him in the ass.
at bull, n.1
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