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A Gun for Sale choose

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[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 17: I don’t care a damn if I shoot you.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 173: Let’s get Watt and debag him.
at de-bag, v.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 14: The kitten came to him [...] ‘You little bitch,’ he said, ‘you little bitch.’.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 154: Then we dropped him by the bookstall and did a bolt.
at bolt, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 159: ‘What a break!’ he said, ‘what a break!’ laughing softly. ‘It makes you believe in Providence, doesn’t it?’.
at break, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 10: Have you brought the money? I’m broke.
at broke, adj.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 13: You see, she’s class.
at class, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 170: If anyone’s on the streets without a gas-mask he’s a conchie.
at conchie, n.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 170: There are people who want to crab the practice.
at crab, v.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 145: Well, this cat met a fox in the forest, and she’d always heard the fox cracked up for being wise.
at crack up, v.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 54: Nobody’s on my side [...] I’ve learned that. Even a crook doctor ...
at crook, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 143: That’d be fine, wouldn’t it? Hold out my hands for the cuffs.
at cuffs, n.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 67: He’s the lipstick type. A change from home. Hubbie on the razzle.
at on the razzle dazzle (phr.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 82: I said, ‘You won’t be able to find a strange bed, Piker.’ Catch my meaning? He’s a dog, old Piker.
at dog, n.2
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 14: Go it, Alice, what an ugly pair you are.
at go it, v.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 182: She’s straight, he swore with almost perfect conviction, she wouldn’t grass.
at grass, v.2
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 62: Anne walked out on them; she didn’t want to high-hat Davis, but his presence there shocked her.
at high hat, v.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 179: Buddy blustered, ‘What the hell!’.
at what the hell!, excl.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 18: It’ll be a bigger laugh than ever if you get jugged for something you didn’t do.
at jug, v.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 147: Bread and water. A sergeant knocking you around if you try to lark a bit. That’s a home.
at lark, v.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 201: He paid me two hundred phoney pounds.
at phoney, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 22: Write it down, write it down, old boy [...] and then smoke it.
at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 19: Don’t say a word or I’ll plug you.
at plug, v.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 188: ‘Gives us Christmas feeling,’ Mr Davis said. ‘So will a bottle of pop,’ the girl said.
at pop, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 1: He turned into one of the tall grey houses and climbed the stairs, a sour bitter screwed-up figure.
at screwed up (adj.) under screwed, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 142: I don’t fall for girls [...] You won’t find me ever going soft on a skirt.
at skirt, n.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 14: He could have a slap-up meal at Simpson’s.
at slap-up, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 60: Stop talking, Ruby, and make it snappy.
at make it snappy (v.) under snappy, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 82: He’s a sport, old Piker.
at sport, n.
[UK] G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 82: I was on the spot that day. Do you know what I said?
at on the spot (adj.) under spot, n.3
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