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The Cutman choose

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[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I laughed at the thought of them two mooks bracing cap’n Sliddell.
at brace, v.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I’d already seen him [...] whale the tar out of three German sailors that thought they was gonna buffalo an old man.
at buffalo, v.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I could read trouble the way a con-man [...] hustling three-card Monte [...] could read a mark.
at three-card monte, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] The cap’n would have cleaned our clocks if we’d tried to interfere.
at clean someone’s clock (v.) under clean, v.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I had things to do and I knew the cap’n wasn’t one for tolerating goldbrickers.
at goldbrick, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] Yeah, mac, you can do something for us. You can move your boat.
at Mac, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] You’d better keep your meat hooks off me.
at meathook (n.) under meat, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I was just plumb worn out [...] I was tuckered.
at tuckered (out), adj.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] All I wanted was [...] a bellyful of beer and a nice, soft rack to sleep it off.
at rack, n.2
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] This here’s private parking, swabbie.
at swabby, n.
[US] ‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I’d already seen him [...] whale the tar out of three German sailors that thought they was gonna buffalo an old man.
at whale the — out of someone (v.) under whale, v.1
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