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The Venetian Blonde choose

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[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 154: I thought about [...] all the bees and honey she had talked about.
at bees (and honey), n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 171: But even asleep, I was sure, Maggie was strictly wide-awake.
at wide-awake, adj.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 188: She was not quite as gentle and kindly as a meat axe.
at meat axe, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 218: The back of my hand to you, Porter.
at back of my hand (and the sole of my foot) under back, n.1
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 193: ‘But you were in love with him,’ I said. ‘Yes, I had it bad.’.
at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 179: Spare me your little badger game – whatever it is.
at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 253: He had taken my billfold and all I had left in my pocket were a few bangers. I spent them for booze.
at banger, n.4
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 155: [of hands of cards] I dealt him one barn-burner after another [...] The whole thing looked like a winning streak.
at barnburner, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 155: I wondered about the man with the blah face. Maggie’s description didn’t help much. The counterman had a blah face.
at blah, adj.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 173: I didn’t believe [...] Maggie was going to vut me in for more than peanuts. At the blowoff she might be hard to find.
at blow off, n.2
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 147: She had them tuned out, but they kept broadcasting.
at broadcast, v.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 232: There was a white Jaguar parked across the street and the broadie at the wheel tapped the horn.
at broadie, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 140: Skelly, the broadsman with instant fingers and the finest bottom deal around. [Ibid.] 155: I began to suspect that there was another educated broadsman at work.
at broadsman (n.) under broads, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 239: There was a tremor in his hand [...] He was bugged.
at bugged, adj.1
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 146: She had her arm around a bull fiddle.
at bull fiddle (n.) under bull, adj.1
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 219: It’s kind of a bum rap to let her think she drove you to it.
at bum rap, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 197: Nothing could sadden me more than to have to tell that poor old woman that she has fallen into the hands of bunco artists.
at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 174: We had been burning Pall Malls.
at burn, v.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 153: I could have been riding off in that Caddie.
at Caddy, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 158: You’re going to go your way, and I’m going to go mine [...] Check? Okay? Right?
at check!, excl.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 156: [of card cheating] I chipped along, neither winning nor losing, but all the while laying down a story.
at chip, v.2
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 141: I was broke. Really Tap City.
at tap city, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 221: I stopped breathing. I thought she had me cold.
at have someone cold (v.) under cold, adv.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 189: Keep your figure [...] If she blows wise [...] you can always go back to the cootch shows.
at cooch show (n.) under cooch, n.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 155: I watched for crimps.
at crimp, n.2
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 219: She knocked me out of the will years ago. Figured I might croak her for it.
at croak, v.2
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 176: Could Antony ditch Cleopatra? [...] Did Tristan cut out on Isolde?
at cut out on (v.) under cut out, v.3
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 171: Jamie got tanked up on dago red.
at dago red (n.) under dago, adj.1
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 255: You could have put together a foolproof, Jim Dandy spook swindle and big con, and you did.
at jim-dandy, adj.
[US] A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 155: I watched for daub. He could be grease-marking the high cards every time he smoothed his moustache.
at daub, n.1
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