Shamus (film) Shamus (film) Shamus is a 1973 American comedy thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik, and starring Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon. New York private detective Shamus McCoy is called to the house of Hume, an eccentric diamond dealer, and is given the task of recovering some stolen diamonds. His investigation is thwarted at every turn and it is only when he is beaten by a gang of thugs to warn him off the job that he realizes that he's onto something really big. Using his friend Springy as well as Alexis Montaigne, the sister of a nightclub owner, McCoy digs
Historical Dictionary of American Slang P – S [Part 1]", , and "Volume 4, S [Part 2] – Z". As of 2018, however, those volumes have not yet been published. Each entry includes representative quotations, including the earliest quotation using the word. HDAS is edited by Jonathan E. Lighter of the University of Tennessee. It is sometimes compared to "Green's Dictionary of Slang", which takes a generally similar approach but is not focused specifically on American slang. The "HDAS" is not to be confused with the "DAS", the "Dictionary of American Slang" (1975). Historical Dictionary of American Slang The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, often