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[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I can cop the sneak alone okay, but it ain’t healthy to travel tandem.
at cop a sneak (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 ‘I’ll slip you five grand!’ said Shrimpo. ‘What d’yer think of them berries?’.
at how do you like them apples?, phr.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 The jack is brought in with an armored car and I don’t want no part of them babies.
at baby, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. [Internet] The landlady has a puss like a battleship.
at battleship, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 Right away I knew this beezo is right for a deal.
at beezer, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 In brief, Mr. Todd had an idea that he was the berries minus the razz.
at berries, the, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 Aw, I don’t believe in that crapolo anymore!
at crapola (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I have to kid the sapolo along in order to get the dope on the payroll.
at get the dope on (v.) under dope, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 She sits me down to a feed that would have knocked your eyes out.
at knock someone’s eye out (v.) under eye, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 He was a fathead, a roundhead, and a flathead to boot.
at flathead, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I ain’t worked around Panama for nearly six years. That’s where the gravy train runs for me.
at gravy train, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 if she ain’t slinging hash in some grease-jernt she’s out of place.
at grease joint (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I tell Maggie McGill — that’s the dame I’m hot over — that I am booked for a heavy killing.
at heavy, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I tell Maggie McGill — that’s the dame I’m hot over — that I am booked for a heavy killing.
at killing, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 The lay is right and I feel lucky as hell.
at lay, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 Never again would Shrimpo Todd have faith in luck, omens, hunches, mitt-readers, astrologists [...] or what have you.
at mitt-reader (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 Listen, punko, you don’t know what luck is!
at -o, sfx
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 The little bum licks the pants off me.
at lick the pants off (v.) under pants, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 ‘I might of known it was a plant when I sees that cat!’ whined Mr. Todd.
at plant, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 The mugg wasn’t in his class. [...] Probably a pokepicker or some small-time bumolo like that.
at poke-lifter (n.) under poke, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 Before I hit the flop that night to do some earpounding I wind my watch.
at pound one’s ear (v.) under pound, v.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I have to kid the sapolo along in order to get the dope on the payroll.
at sap, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 Shrimpo decided that the fellow’s nerves were all shot and thought to humor him along.
at shot, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I wind my watch [and] I put the ticker under my pillow.
at ticker, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Good Luck is No Good’ in Federal Agent Nov. 🌐 I’m tops in the racket.
at tops, n.3
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