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[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 153: Franzino was there, along with two big apples from the Police Department.
at apple, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 84: Ed was in his car outside, mad as a boil.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 160: I’m the whizbang dick, the mighty private eye.
at whiz bang, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 70: Maybe some private eyes can bat along on no shut-eye, but not me.
at bat, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 14: She was solidly built, the kind of strong figure the street-corner whistlers call ‘Built up from the ground.’.
at built, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 93: You’ve been giving me a bunko story from the start.
at bunco, adj.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 40: Throw me that pack of butts on the dresser.
at butt, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 81: He took a switch blade out of his pocket. [...] ‘Cliff, put that cheese sticker away,’ Louise said.
at cheese dagger (n.) under cheese, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 119: Ed Turner was a little sex-screwy.
at -crazy, sfx
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 24: Hell, a little cushion money — that’s expected.
at cushion, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 58: She’d dolled up in that sexy outfit for me.
at doll up, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 143: Their roomers, who were just coming in from their Saturday night elbow-bending.
at elbow-bender (n.) under elbow, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 10: Near eleven. Guess I’ll float on home.
at float, v.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 29: He’s buying me a can of foam.
at foam, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 16: I’m telling you in front, I don’t go in for shootings, or any rough stuff.
at up front, adv.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 24: I wised the boy up, told him not to cut in on the big brass’s gravy.
at gravy, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 162: Like a guy highballing along the highway, weaving in and out of the stream of cars.
at highball, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 24: Hell, a little cushion money — that’s expected, but this fool tried jazzing the numbers syndicate.
at jazz, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 120: You sit there [...] handing me some dope about a whore and a pimp! What’s with you, sentimental over mudkickers?
at mud-kicker, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It 🌐 A job like this had to last at least ten days— three hundred bucks would knock off a lot of bills.
at knock off, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 22: I nodded. ‘But I don’t feel right about it.’ ‘Barney, stop knocking yourself out.’.
at knock oneself out (v.) under knock out, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 12: Jeez, a cop was knocked off!
at knocked off, adj.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 29: ‘This Franklin Andersun, was he a muscleman?’ Danny laughed [...] ‘Couldn’t lift a toothpick.’.
at muscleman, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 7: During Prohibition it was called the Grand Cafe Ice Cream Parlour and openly sold needle beer and very little ice cream.
at needle beer (n.) under needle, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 78: What’s with your great big birdbrain, shamus?
at shamus, n.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 99: When the case is over, if we want to be friends, then we’ll both see how it shapes up.
at shape (up) (v.) under shape, v.
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 115: There were two skip-tracing jobs in the mail.
at skip tracer (n.) under skip, n.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 117: I’d acted like a goon last night, slipping the dope on her husband.
at slip, v.2
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 121: I think you’ll beat the slop out of Cliff, make life miserable for the girl.
at slop, n.1
[US] ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 117: I wasn’t much of a detective [...] what little work I was doing was sloppy as hell.
at sloppy, adj.
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