1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 119: It was a lot of car. Not only did it have the power [...] but it was steady as a rock.at lot of, a, adj.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 111: I wasn’t going to play delivery boy or bird dog for either of them.at bird dog, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 12: I knew he was going to be a bone-crusher, and he was.at bonecrusher, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 119: Underneath all the weird styling dreamed up by the butterfly boys, some real engineers had got together and concocted something quite commendable.at butterfly, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 63: Washington is the city of the soft heads and the chicken hearts.at chickenheart, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 101: Pull that little metal dingus sticking out from the bottom.at dingus, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 71: We’ll go back to young Mr. Blackhat and his Plymouth dreamboat.at dreamboat, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 76: I saw that the damn little heap [...] had a ducky little miniature air-conditioning unit under the dash.at ducky, adj.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 31: Light-colored, low-heeled pull-on boots with the rough side of the leather showing that are sometimes known locally as fruit-boots, being the preferred footgear of a few gentlemen whose virility is subject to question.at fruit boots (n.) under fruit, n.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 25: The rear end broke loose as we hit the gravel, and I almost lost the heap completely.at hit the grit (v.) under grit, n.2
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 28: By morning I could be in Texas. Normally I have a good New Mexican’s aversion to that loudmouthed state and all its residents.at loudmouth, adj.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 111: It seemed a pity to come so close to the old roaring cattle towns [...] without stopping to see what they looked like.at roaring, adj.
1960 D. Hamilton Death of a Citizen 74: We’ve made a clean getaway, slick as a whistle.at slick as owl shit under slick, adj.