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The Dashiell Hammett Story Omnibus choose

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[US] D. Hammett ‘Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 147: Cut it, kid! For God’s sake, not that!
at cut it, v.1
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 141: If everything’s all right, and there’s no elbows tagging along, somebody’ll come up to you.
at elbow, n.1
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 145: Just the sort of girl who could easily fall into the hands of a mob of highbinders.
at highbinder, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 137: ‘I’m going to call these people’s bluff!’ ‘That’s going to make it really lovely for your daughter.’.
at lovely, adj.
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 148: ‘How’d you rap to it?’ Quayle asked me, politely.
at rap to (v.) under rap, v.1
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 137: He had made his several millions by sandbagging everybody that stood in his way.
at sandbag, v.1
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 149: She’s had a skinful of hop ever since we started.
at skinful, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gatewood Caper’ Story Omnibus (1966) 149: The card she beat him with was a threat of spilling everything she knew about him to the newspapers.
at spill, v.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 220: You can’t fight worth a damn!
at worth a damn under worth a..., phr.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 159: Dick Foley — our shadow ace — was idle.
at ace, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 157: It’s got to be air-tight on the other end [...] if we’re going to catch our fish.
at airtight, adj.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 217: Hold these, Milk River, while I take this pork-and-beaner for a romp.
at pork-and-beaner, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 221: She began to shoot questions at me: Was this still so-and-so? Was that still thus?
at so-and-so, adj.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 200: Slim tried to beat the Toad out of two bits’ worth of Java.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 220: I picked the sawn-off shotgun out of its nest. ‘Can I borrow this? I want to make a believer out of a guy.’.
at believer, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 214: ‘Who shot him?’ ‘One of the Circle H.A.R., you can bet your neck on that!’.
at bet one’s neck (v.) under bet, v.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 167: If it pleases the Grandfather of Bloodhounds to flatter Chang Li Chang.
at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Scorched Face’ Story Omnibus (1966) 84: This cellar looked like a bloomer. We were wasting time here.
at bloomer, n.2
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 205: A city man in range country is bound to find himself sitting on a disagreeable bone sooner or later.
at bone, n.6
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 221: I found I knew some of her friends. A couple of them were high-class swindlers, one was a bootleg magnate.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 227: Ain’t we going to bushwhack them waddies none?
at bushwhack, v.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 233: You may be a curly wolf with your rod [...] but if you try any of your monkey’s business on me, I’ll turn you over my knee.
at monkey business, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’ Story Omnibus (1966) 19: When this thing busted loose I had to hide.
at bust loose (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 221: These hicks think you’re a bust, but I know different.
at bust, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Scorched Face’ Story Omnibus (1966) 80: Pat flashed his buzzer. Though the black man had poor English, he had knowledge of police badges.
at buzzer, n.3
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’ Story Omnibus (1966) 30: The princess can give you a fat cut of the profits in a busted caper.
at caper, n.2
[US] D. Hammett ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’ Story Omnibus (1966) 18: I was tempted to chuck the empty gun at his head. But that was too chancy.
at chancy, adj.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 232: A minute later he was carrying a charge over to the hypo.
at charge, n.2
[US] D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ Story Omnibus (1966) 222: Do we ride out that-a-way, chief?
at chief, n.
[US] D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 159: Things ain’t been anyways quiet since the japs began buyin’ stores in the Chink streets.
at Chink, adj.
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