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[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 7 July 2/3: Waitress — He’s so mean wouldn’t even leave an asparugus tip on the table.
at so mean... under mean, adj.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 10 Apr. 8/1: Once more he went kersouse! into the pool.
at kersouse! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 8 Apr. 1/6: Not since the days of [...] the turpentine ‘farm’ have the people of Orlando [...] had an opportunity to hear and see a typical stomp-down negro show .
at stomp-down, adj.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 6 Feb. 16/2: The [film] [...] has to do with the cowboy-cadillac set in Arizona.
at cowboy cadillac (n.) under cowboy, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 2 May 23/4: English slang [...] I cannot lose a tug at heart whenever I hear anyone saying something is abso-bloody-lutely..
at absobloodylutely, adv.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 2 May 23/4: Red white and blue is cold salt beef.
at red, white and blue, n.1
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 2 May 23/4: English slang [...] Bread and scrape is bread and butter.
at bread and scrape (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 2 May 23/4: N.B.G. means no bloody good.
at n.b.g., phr.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 3 July 5/1: Purse Snatching [...] This new ‘snitch game’ is practised by young adults and teen-agers in search of wallets.
at snitch game (n.) under snitch, v.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 19 Mar. 24/2: ‘What are you doing to do? Be a soggy drunk or a nice person’.
at soggy, adj.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 3 July 90/1: The suicide seat is the one next to the driver, to his left.
at suicide seat (n.) under suicide, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 21 Nov. 20/2: Blackwood took aim on Irsay, suggesting that the Colts ‘start at the top’ if they’re going to cleaan house.
at clean house (v.) under clean, v.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 8 Aug. Hey there cutie pie! What’s shaking?:
at cutie-pie, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 14 Jan. 1-C/1: I you care about freedom [...] get excited about the people in communist prisons instead of some sleaze-bag mobster.
at sleazebag (n.) under sleaze, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 14 May 13/1: I’ve never known a mother who didn’t thrive on hearing her little crumb-crunchers tell her they adore her.
at crumb-cruncher (n.) under crumb, n.1
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 24 Apr. 28/2: ‘I weigh a buck seventy-five [175 pounds]’.
at buck, n.3
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) Orange Sports 6 Dec. 1/1: Bonecrusher, Bulldog, Tackhead [...] the nicknames were status symbols.
at tackhead, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 8 Oct. 5/5: [personal advert] sheygets seeks [...] Wants to meet American or European female, 23-35.
at shaygets, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 16 Feb. H8/5: Excellent bread shops have opened [...] offering ready alternatives to squooshy [...] white bread.
at squooshy, adj.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 20 May X26/2: Barbecue good enough to snarf is a rarity.
at snarf, v.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 8 June n.p.: They pour paint on three giant drumheads and then bash the living daylights out of those drums, sending paint flying.
at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 15 Oct. A15/4: He made caasual references to a ‘.45 calibre lead cocktail’.
at lead poisoning (n.) under lead, n.
[US] Orlando Sentinel (FL) 27 Apr. G2/3: [W]atch the litle ones strut their stuff in the Itsy Bitsy hat parade.
at strut one’s stuff, v.
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