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[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 121: ‘Benny Besognio?’ [p...] ‘Nickel-and-dimer’.
at nickel-and-dimer, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 249: This is horseshit, nickel-and-dime horseshit.
at nickel-and-dime, adj.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 38: Fein had arranged it without the proper authority. It was a dangerous backdoor move.
at back-door, adj.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 64: I saw the guy was banged up [...] I saw his head was bandaged.
at banged up, adj.1
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 101: You get all beefed like that and somebody puts two behind your ear [...] You’re as dead as a ninety-pound weakling would be.
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 23: You wanna crack some broad in the mouth because she slapped you one in the face.
at crack, v.1
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 125: They let him play with the big boys until they don’t need him anymore. Then they cut him loose or whack him.
at cut loose, v.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 3: You go out there for a asit-down with Lercasi, you gotta make like it’s a real-estate investment or some shit.
at sit-down, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 120: You could’ve asked for a sit with me. You should’ve asked for a sit with me.
at sit-down, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 79: Our man in Vegas didn’t know about it [...] Which means somebody pulled an end run.
at pull an end run (v.) under end, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 20: He [...] had taken the long red-eye flight from New York to Las Vegas the night before last.
at red-eye, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 38: I don’t need this blowing up in my face [...] It was a simple accomodation. It shouldn’t become a federal case.
at make a federal case out of (v.) under federal, adj.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 38: Allen Fein had been fronting mob business in Las Vegas for more than three years. He was a certified public accountant as well as a licensed attorney.
at front, v.2
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 23: The boss wants to see a tooth [...] Now he’s flyin’ out to meet us and you wanna try and fugazy a tooth?
at fugazi, v.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 153: He got all funny on me and then he passed out.
at funny, adj.2
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 48: I hate it when your goo [i.e. semen] starts running out while I’m working.
at goo, n.1
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 50: I don’t need to get my joint copped in a gymnasium.
at joint, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 235: The Feds are much more meticulous than us local yokels.
at local yokel, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 126: Lano’s a mustache to these kids [...] They’re purging all the old mobsters.
at moustache Pete (n.) under moustache, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 39: Dealing with the idiot bodybuilder [...] wasn’t making the problem any easier [...] Talking with this musclehead, Fein was even less impressed.
at muscle boy (n.) under muscle, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 148: He was down to his royal blue bikini underwear and muscle T-shirt.
at muscle, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 5: Couple million in heroin is a telephone number.
at telephone number, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 23: You wanna crack some broad in the mouth because she slapped you one in the face.
at one, n.1
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 171: In case you don’t get it yet, pally, I’m not too concerned.
at pally, n.1
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 4: It’s too bad that other kid got scooped up last year.
at scoop, v.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 65: What is this, a fuckin’ shakedown now?
at shakedown, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 3: You go out there for a sit-down with Lercasi, you gotta make like it’s a real-estate investment or some shit.
at or some shit under shit, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 233: Let’s not blow smoke at each other.
at blow smoke in someone’s ear (v.) under smoke, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 62: ‘What do you need from me?’ ‘Names, for starters’.
at starters, n.
[US] C. Stella Charlie Opera 3: You ever hear of getting your tit in a ringer [...] Because that’s what this could be like.
at get one’s tits in a twist (v.) under tit, n.2
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