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The Cold Six Thousand choose

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[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 43: The hotel copped pleas. The hotel blamed Lee Oswald.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 326: Trust A-OK. Parity better.
at A-OK, adj.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 81: A six-foot-four nigger in an easily identifiable hot rod and a tristate APB out.
at a.p.b., n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 242: ‘Dick Contino?’ ‘Muff-diver and gamble-o-holic. In hock to the Chicago Cartel.’.
at -aholic, sfx
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 156: They whopped his ribs. They whopped his knees. They aired it out good.
at air it out, v.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 174: The Sheriff’s man knew shit-all about it.
at shit-all, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 583: Like: Bob Relyea — nervous and hi-amped.
at amped, adj.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 251: If you can’t beat ’em, assimilate and stop all this civil-rights shuck-and-jive.
at shuck and jive, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 583: I’ll tell Stanton to expand the biz or shove it up your ass.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 320: Chaffee called ARVNs ‘Marvin.’ Pete called them ‘Marv.’.
at Marvin (the Arvin), n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 155: The cops froze. The blanket guys hauled. They moved east. They hauled.
at haul ass, v.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 53: He’s working an extradition gig with a Vegas cop, and he gets in the guy’s face in the worst possible way.
at get in someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 256: Milt greased bellhops/barkeeps/B-girls.
at B-girl, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 21: You badged in. The owner loved cops. Your host — Jack Ruby.
at badge, v.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 20: Ruby: Bagman/pimp/Littell’s old snitch/ strip-club entrepre—.
at bagman, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 466: Tran flipped Pete off. The wop stiff-arm — il bah-fungoo.
at bah-fungoo!, excl.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 204: He’s showing smut films there. Underaged kids. The whole shot.
at whole bang shoot, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 437: They ran Tiger Kamp. They ran slaves. They cooked base.
at base, n.1
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 268: Wayne walked in distracted. Dom checked his basket. Dom eyeball-stroked his bulge.
at basket, n.1
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 604: Pete got goose bumps. Pete hinked out. Pete hinked out boocoo.
at beaucoup, adv.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 389: Hate tracts/bug spray/beaver pix/gun oil.
at beaver, n.1
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 161: Wayne muscled a Monarch Cab man, stole some bennies.
at benny, n.4
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 4: She just loooooved his daddy. He flew with her oodles. She knew he was a Mormon wheel.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 3: [of Dallas] A Negro shivved a twenty-one dealer. The dealer lost an eye. The Negro booked to Big D.
at Big D, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 19: You’re trying to sell me a bill of goods.
at bill of goods, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 163: Cur-ti jived. Cur-ti crimped bindles. Cur-ti cut dope.
at bindle, n.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 611: Stanton’s cab cut south. Pete’s cab bird-dogged it. Pete’s cab stuck two car lengths back.
at bird dog, v.
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 310: The Arden bit bugged him. It bugged him incessant. It bugged him nonstop.
at bit, n.1
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 162: Wayne watched the shack. The rain blitzed his view.
at blitz, v.2
[US] (con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 105: Pete and Boyd stole some dope. Things went blooey. The Boys got very mad.
at go blooey (v.) under blooey!, excl.
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