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[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 352/1: If he didn’t get a cut of that prize hunk of beef - there was a jingle you had better read.
at beef, n.1
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 363/2: They’re killers. And they’re cold. Youi’ve got to be the same way.
at cold, adj.
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 358/1: She figures Hurry should have a slice of the Giant. Forty percent cut-in.
at cut-in, n.
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Big Bk of Black Mask Stories (2010) 345: It [i.e. a punch] landed with a sound that could be heard all over the Garden.
at Garden, the, n.
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 349/1: He greased me so that I could get the Big Boy away from the little lake town where I found him.
at grease, v.1
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 367/1: Connors did the job on Pardo, with a Maxim-silenced gun under a towel.
at do a job on (v.) under job, n.2
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 346/2: You got a money fighter, Gus. All yours?
at money, adj.
[US] R. Whitfield ‘Murder in the Ring’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 358/1: he was getting set to spill something, and his pumper went bad.
at pumper, n.
[US] D.V. Babcock ‘Murder on the Gayway’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 569/1: he’s down there in that bail-bond office. That’s his hoopie out in front of it.
at hooptie, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: ‘That lets you out.’ ‘In a pig’s whinny, it does’.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 224/2: You don’t know your rump from a hole in the ground.
at not know one’s arse/ass from a hole in the ground (v.) under arse, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: This is a cop case. A blue’s been knocked off.
at blue, n.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: The crut who put the bump on that blonde is named Gorilla George.
at put the bump on (v.) under bump, n.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 227/2: Claims she’s a showgirl. used to be in burly.
at burley, n.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 230/1: The skirt was with the two who put the burn on MacReady. They just fixed her up with a slug, too.
at put the burn on (v.) under burn, n.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 230/2: He got to his car, tramped on the button up through Central Park.
at button, n.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/1: Now they’ve gone up against a chair job, everybody’ll get put on the pan about it.
at chair job (n.) under chair, the, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 228/2: Watch it. They got a chatter gun.
at chattergun (n.) under chatter, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 220: Guy gets toughened up after twenty years on a beat. Makes it that much harder to check out.
at check out, v.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 233/1: You like you been in another fracas [...] Get chewed up a little?
at chew up, v.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/1: Crysake, don’t you Ames dummies know a copy when you see one?
at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 229/1: The mob that knocked her off has gone kill-crazy. If we don’t put the clamps on ’em--.
at put the clamps on (v.) under clampers, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 229/1: The mob that knocked her off has gone kill-crazy. If we don’t put the clamps on ’em--.
at -crazy, sfx
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 234/2: The crut who put the bump on that blonde is named Gorilla George.
at crut, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/2: You ain’t gonna lay the finger on the lads who did this job just by puttin’ the peep on the hockshops.
at lay the finger on (v.) under finger, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 223/1: Where was you when the fireworks went off?
at fireworks, n.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 230/1: The skirt was with the two who put the burn on MacReady. They just fixed her up with a slug, too.
at fix up, v.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 226/2: Phony ‘flash wares’ bought at auction [...] for sale to overwise suckers.
at flash ware (n.) under flash, adj.
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 240/2: I hammered Dumont until I dragged the babe!s address outa him.
at hammer, v.1
[US] S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 224/1: They’s a lot of Jersey hockers come over to do business.
at hocker, n.1
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