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[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 12: She had a curvy big-assed vulgarity to her.
at big-ass, adj.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 11: The Turtle? Just your average card-carrying run-of-the-mill bad guy.
at bad guy (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 208: Come on, Briscoe, let’s make her really groan [...] Let’s bury our beef. In her.
at bury one’s beef (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 32: Read this, Blinky. Now you know who I am.
at blink, n.1
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 98: Your cousin Ike thought he was boffing Ileana, but probably Monon was boffing Ike.
at boff, v.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 92: ‘Find Ike,’ I said, and buzzed the elevator.
at buzz, v.1
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 51: Someone got in the house and coldcocked me.
at cold-cock, v.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 70: The cops think he’s been working with the Cubans in coke, shylocking and fencing, out in Brooklyn.
at fencing, n.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 52: A fetid fudgy smell of drying blood and loosened bowels stained the air.
at fudge, n.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 149: He was shot in a cheap holdup in Brownsville.
at hold-up, n.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 11: Who was the other one? [...] The ice-box with the eyes?
at icebox, n.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 213: They [...] sent Ileana to a psycho ward.
at psycho, adj.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 10: Most women think he’s a good-looking rat.
at rat, n.1
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 155: Just for your information, Sambo, I feel nothing of the kind.
at sambo, n.1
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 66: It was a shot in the dark. I had no idea what he knew.
at shot in the dark (n.) under shot, n.1
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 70: The cops think he’s been working with the Cubans in coke, shylocking and fencing, out in Brooklyn.
at shylock, v.
[US] P. Hamill Deadly Piece 71: It’s that one over in Forest Hills that’s got the cops wiggy. They can’t make that one out at all.
at wiggy, adj.
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