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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
A glossary of slang terms taken from the hardboiled "private eye" detective fiction of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and others.
http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
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