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wide open
adjective
unrestrained by authority; unrestricted by the police; wild US- Under the wide-open Kelly regime, police officers took up stations at each policy drawing-place to protect the money on hand for the payoffs. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 37, 1950
- This most uncosmopolitan capital is overshadowed by that giant of metropolises, New York, only minutes away by air, and by Baltimore, with its wide open and blatant vice much nearer. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 2, 1951
- Lupita pays off to operate wide open, as if she was running a grocery store. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 101, 1953
- And, at this time, baseball betting books ran wide open in Oklahoma City. — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 142, 1954
- There was a town—Covington, Kentucky—that was wide open. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 28, 1972
- You could party twenty-four hours a day–Olga Guilot, Benny Casino, la Playa, Cascarita–gambling, pussy, coke–wide open. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 35, 1975
- the El Dorado, the Purple Parrot, and several other places that were running wide open — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 36, 1990
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