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[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ in Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 Look at yuh—You look more like the five an’ ten cent store every day wit’ them rings an’ bracelets all over yuh.
at five and dime, adj.
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ in Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 ‘Trip Kennedy got away—Burned down two of our boys an’ made a clean getaway.’.
at burn down (v.) under burn, v.
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ in Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 Not that his act is any good—the kid is a worse flop each night.
at flop, n.4
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 Give me a hand here quick — they ‘got’ Eddie —.
at get, v.
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 A slim, palefaced youth, one of Martelli’s hoofers.
at hoofer, n.
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 Aw, Jimmy, be a regular for once in your life [...] You an’ me ain’t nothin’ to each other.
at regular, n.
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 Says that some flatty tipped him off that they always keep a lotta loose cash in that front office [...] Course it was only the booze talkin’, but —.
at it’s the beer talking under talk, v.
[US] F. Borden ‘Guns of Gangland’ Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 There were many of the ‘wise ones’ who believed that Eddie Fogarty had reached the limit of his power.
at wise one (n.) under wise, adj.
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