1955 ‘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
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 84: Ed was in his car outside, mad as a boil.at mad as..., adj.
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 160: I’m the whizbang dick, the mighty private eye.at whiz bang, adj.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 93: You’ve been giving me a bunko story from the start.at bunco, adj.
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 40: Throw me that pack of butts on the dresser.at butt, n.1
1955 ‘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
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 24: Hell, a little cushion money — that’s expected.at cushion, n.
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 58: She’d dolled up in that sexy outfit for me.at doll up, v.
1955 ‘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
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘Ed Lacy’ Best that Ever Did It (1957) 78: What’s with your great big birdbrain, shamus?at shamus, n.
1955 ‘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.
1955 ‘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
1955 ‘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
1955 ‘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
1955 ‘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.