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[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 216: You’re airing Ben - how do we know you’ll play ball with us?
at air, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 223: Lowry won a lot of jack in one of ben’s crap game [...] and Ben wanted him to kick back with it - said everybody that worked for him was automatically a shill and couldn’t play for keeps.
at kick back, v.1
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 219: I waited till we had burned through the gate and were halfway up the block.
at burn (up), v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 219: I’ll put the chill on both of you - and everybody’ll be happy: .
at put the chill on (v.) under chill, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 218: I finagled with the ltach for a while and then pushed the gate open slowly.
at finagle, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 221: There’ll be some swell fireworks out there [...] There’s a sub-machine-gun on every truck.
at fireworks, n.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 219: He’s been with Ben on the truck heistings.
at heist, v.
[US] ‘Paul Cain’ ‘Black’ in Omnibus (2006) 223: Lowry won a lot of jack in one of ben’s crap game [...] and Ben wanted him to kick back with it - said everybody that worked for him was automatically a shill and couldn’t play for keeps.
at shill, n.2
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