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[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 210: Ain’tcha heard? It’s all over but the shoutin’.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 156: If you’re not a rootin’-tooter you can’t get in to see him.
at rooting and tooting, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 189: The apple-polishers are startin’ to get in on the act.
at apple-polisher, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 17: Get ready to put the arm on him.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 101: How’d you get in the gang, fat-arse?
at fat-arse, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 25: He must look like a fourteen-carat arse-kisser.
at ass-kisser, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 43: There were five or six from the glamour-boy clique, weight-lifters and beboppers, their hair combed in duck-tails.
at bebopper, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 158: The original petition had been beefed-up a bit.
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 5: I’m going’ to the Hole on a bum beef.
at bum beef (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 5: I’m goin’ to the Hole on a bum beef.
at bum beef (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 179: ‘Careful, Bertha!’ [...] Big Bertha, the first string centre on the prison’s football team, a two-hundred-and-twenty-pound queen.
at bertha, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 174: Settle down there, Big Daddy [...] The queens are gettin’ along all right without you.
at big daddy, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 232: ‘Give him the boot!’ ‘Cream the phoney bastard!’.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 70: Digging through the records in search of victims: stoolies, boot-lickers, undercover homos.
at bootlicker, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 242: We’ll be right back in one of these stinkin’ boxes as soon as they get in here.
at box, n.1
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 147: I’ll stomp his hands to a pulp right here. The bug’s not plantin’ a blade in my back.
at bug, n.1
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 16: He was suffering from cage-fatigue.
at cage, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 59: I’ll probably get my tail chewed for spoutin’ off.
at chew (on) someone’s ass (v.) under chew, v.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 20: If Malaski konks out we’re facin’ a murder rap.
at conk (out), v.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 51: Let’s castrate the ol’ bastard [...] Fix him so he can’t get his cookies.
at get one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 45: Get your crew together and run these loudmouths back to the cellhouses.
at crew, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 171: ‘You been cuttin’ this up with other guys?’ ‘Cutting what up?’ ‘Skinny’s personal business.’.
at cut up, v.1
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 190: Hell, man, I’m desperate. I’ll be flubbin’ my dub in here for the next twenty years.
at flub the dub, v.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 21: ‘Must’ve been a finger job,’ the con said.
at finger, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 14: He’s havin’ a heart attack or somethin’ [...] He flopped out when that crazy Indian told him he was gonna lop his head off.
at flop out (v.) under flop, v.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 43: There was Duke Trusdale, a flop-house pimp.
at flophouse, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 178: Let’s take a hike over there [...] You’ll never get another chance to see a buncha geared-up freaks like that in action.
at geared up, adj.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 71: There’s one from Gravel Gertie, too.
at Gertie, n.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 43: There were five or six from the glamour-boy clique, weight-lifters and beboppers, their hair combed in duck-tails.
at glamour boy (n.) under glamour, adj.
[US] F. Elli Riot (1967) 108: He wouldn’t back down from a fight, that made him a good-head.
at good head (n.) under good, adj.1
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