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The Vice Trap choose

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[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 121: He doesn’t give a doodleydamn.
at not give a damn, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 134: It adds up, Nick. [...] It’s a scam deal.
at add up, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 45: They give you the air, eh, for taking time off?
at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 73: He’s alibied pretty good.
at alibi (up), v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 20: Those black and white birds weren’t after me.
at black and white, n.1
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 140: The out-of-towners were beginning to kick it around in the café.
at kick it around, v.1
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 75: She used to be ass deep in codein [sic] and bennies.
at ass deep under ass, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 110: I’d real bad-mouth him, because I wanted to hurt him.
at badmouth, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 36: He had heard Carroll say he was going to bag me.
at bag, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 11: You can’t figure a balling chick.
at balling, adj.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 103: She’s a barfly. She tricks sometimes for drinks.
at bar-fly, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 15: I took a good one [...] I sat back, feeling pretty double-barrelled.
at double-barrelled, adj.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 18: Those beach bums had nothing on me.
at beach bum (n.) under beach, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 71: Your jalopy’s no real beast, O.K.
at beast, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 31: You’ve beaten me for so many things. [Ibid.] 33: You sponged off your friends, and beat them for money.
at beat (someone) for (v.) under beat, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 13: I was going to have to beef with the kid that was on nights.
at beef, v.1
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 122: A car went across [...] The people in it big-eyed us.
at big eye, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 55: He’d rather try it with greenhorns like us [...] Because we’ve not got big-time records.
at big-time, adj.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 13: Madrid’s Plymouth was out there on the blacktop.
at blacktop (n.) under black, adj.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 13: If I blew him off he would send the work to the Shell across the road.
at blow off, v.2
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 74: Well, we’re going to rob a bank, man. Is that a blue sky, or isn’t it?
at blue sky, n.2
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 128: He patterned that scam [...] off this Davidson’s job [...] I’ll make book on it.
at make book (on) (v.) under book, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 41: Come. Break out a joint, jesus.
at break out, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 79: Man, broom off. Can’t you see I’m pre-occupied.
at broom, v.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 47: You should buck to take the detective exams.
at buck, v.2
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 71: You don’t need any bug-out juice for twenty-eight miles.
at bug-out juice, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 19: Sometimes, coming off a bum kick, I would get in her [i.e. a car] and fire hell out of her.
at bum kicks, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 16: You get sold a bum deal, you know?
at bum deal (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 88: He had the bunk habit of junkies.
at bunk habit, n.
[US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 36: Well, there it was. I had the old can tied to me. [Ibid.] 42: I just took the day off [...] He hung the can to me for it.
at tie a can to (v.) under can, n.1
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