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[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 204: Why should he suddenly want to take money from the box?
at box, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 292: You told me bull stories. You’re a bull-thrower, that’s all you are.
at bull thrower (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 292: You told me bull stories. You’re a bull-thrower, that’s all you are.
at bullshit, adj.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 44: Come on and let’s cut the bushwah.
at bushwa, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 44: A left and a right, two jabs over the heart and a finisher on the button.
at button, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 19: Who the hell asked you to throw your two cents in?
at two cents’ worth, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 272: ‘Lousy charged-up coke,’ he muttered.
at charged (up), adj.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 217: He was already out a dollar fifty-five cents for the Chink’s including the tip.
at Chink’s, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 14: According to special information supplied Joe (Grey Lag) Wack by his private clockers, the filly had twice broken thirty-five seconds for the three-eights.
at clocker, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 194: He wouldn’t give these ignorant clouts the satisfaction.
at clout, n.5
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 271: Just because he looks like a clunk, it don’t necessarily mean he ain’t got a head on him.
at clunk, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 209: Hey, this joint certainly coins the dough.
at coin (it), v.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 77: You must be a coke [...] it’s bad luck busting mirrors.
at coke, n.3
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 270: Who the hell let out that first crack anyway?
at crack, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 154: Crawling cripes, it would be years and years.
at cripes!, excl.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 4: Well, I’ll be goddammed, that’s all I can say.
at I’ll be goddamned! (excl.) under god-damn, v.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 172: Then you’ll want to know me but you can suck my goddammed can all day then.
at suck someone’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 137: It makes no diff.
at dif, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 125: In the sixth race he had already doped out a beauty.
at dope, v.2
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 253: Shubunka lay on the bed and remembered the cruelty of the streets, the gang fights [...] Eight Ball, the boys called him, or Nigger or Coke or Dopey Schmugguggle.
at eightball, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 242: It’s a fake! [...] Once and for all, it’s a trick. We should show people like him they should know.
at fake, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 20: See, I don’t stand for no phenagling around when I’m with a dame, that’s me.
at finagle, v.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 73: ‘Slow as cow flop on an ice-cold day,’ muttered the jerker.
at flop, n.6
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 13: Well, b’gee, what the hell do you know anyway?
at gee!, excl.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 29: Peggy told them to go to hell and lay off or they’d get theirs. So they got sore.
at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 212: He’s a goner. We’re wasting time here.
at goner, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 13: He’s a goner. Once they get the racing bug, it’s all over.
at goner, n.1
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 172: What had they done to deserve all the money while he had to bust his gut for a buck?
at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 127: I don’t like to do with hold-up men, with gangsters.
at hold-up, n.
[US] D. Fuchs Low Company 74: ‘Holy cripes,’ Shorty said.
at holy cripes! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
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