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The Angel of Montague Street choose

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[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 47: You a cop? Ex-cop? Rent-a-cop?
at rent-a-, pfx
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 42: Little Dom goes ape shit.
at go apeshit (v.) under apeshit, adj.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 177: It’s easy for you to forget Antonio [...] I got him up my ass all day long.
at up someone’s arse/ass under arse, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 29: Drag me all the way [...] to the asshole end of Brooklyn.
at asshole, adj.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 92: Another guy [...] rips the thing [i.e. a cow] from asshole to Adam’s apple.
at from asshole to appetite under asshole, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 215: Here, okay, we wouldn’t even look at each other, but in Saigon we’re asshole buddies.
at asshole buddy (n.) under asshole, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 15: Nice Greek place [...] cheap, BYOB.
at b.y.o., phr.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 30: Domenic was annoyed, but he didn’t let it show. It was just Antonio, breaking his balls.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 3: Back in the arms of some old blowser who would give him shelter.
at blowser, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 42: Made your bones at seventeen, not bad.
at make one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 48: He wore aviator glasses [...] topped with a boonie hat.
at boonie, adj.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 246: He stopped and bought a screwdriver [...] used it to boost a delivery truck.
at boost, v.2
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 185: You ever see the guy go out for lunch? Brown-bags it every stinkin’ day.
at brownbag, v.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 53: Lot of people hang out down here. Freaks and stew-bums, whores, drug pushers.
at stew bum, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 256: You come out on top, I’ll be your fucking butt boy.
at butt boy (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 157: She looked at the pistol [...] ‘Put the cannon away and come inside.’.
at cannon, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 243: I was a combat photographer [...] Pretty cherry assignment.
at cherry, adj.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 251: Guy’s been clipping his own money.
at clip, v.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 60: He [...] clotheslined his pursuer just as he got to the top step.
at clothesline, v.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 175: Dirt bag. Always claimed to be connected, but I never believed him.
at connected, adj.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 118: Blanche tell you what a windy old coot I was?
at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 161: Mentally unfit [...] coo-coo.
at cuckoo, adj.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 37: No John Does in any of the city’s various loony bins matched his description.
at John Doe, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 239: Stiff my ex out of her alimony.
at ex, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 160: He had some guy from the feebies calling him. [Ibid.] 193: That’s why the feebs don’t follow him.
at Feeb, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 3: There was still a lot of old fleabags like the Hotel Montague.
at fleabag, n.
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 160: He had to have it like a freaking monastery in here.
at freaking, adj.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 246: Antonio might be rich enough to buy half the cows in the country, but everybody likes getting over. Free always tastes better.
at get over, v.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 41: ‘We do a lotta security, lotta divorce, you know [...]’ ‘Don’t sound like a bad gig.’.
at gig, n.1
[US] N. Green Angel of Montague Street (2004) 259: ‘Everybody calls him Special Ed.’ ‘Cute. Was he a gimp?’.
at gimp, n.2
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