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[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 14 Apr. 18/2: I don’t know sweet shag all about Canada.
at shag all (n.) under shag, n.1
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 1 Oct. 9/1: Rizzo, 14 [...] said he saw a man he has identified as Kallinger removed [sic] his coat and shirt to reveal a ‘guinea T.’ The courtroom broke up and the boy was asked, ‘What’s a “guinea T”?’ ‘It’s one of those shirts with no sleeves,’ Rizzo said.
at guinea tee (n.) under guinea, adj.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 11 July 86/4: ‘He went on to do incredible things at Drake. Sort of gave us an in-your-face job’.
at in-your-face (adj.) under face, n.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 19 Feb. 20/1: Except Eva St Girard was no teenage ‘home slice,’ but a 41-year-old grandmother.
at home slice (n.) under home, n.
[US] Phila. Dly News (Phila., PA) 8 Dec. 79: [TV highlights] Hill takes on Vince ‘Butt Ugly’ Stafford on ‘Hill Street Blues’ (Channel 3 at 10).
at butt-ugly (adj.) under butt, adv.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 25 June 89/3: ‘I don’t find an enormous amount of [...] enlightenment from punching somebody in the bleeping head’.
at bleeping, adj.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 7 Dec. 5/4: They wore sleek cocktail dresses, not ‘go-go sleaze-bucket outfits’.
at sleazebucket, n.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 2 June 16/2: For 10 years I have lived in the area affectionately called the ‘gayborhood’ [...] I like the fact [...] our owntown [in Philadelphia] is easily accessible and that the center of the lesbian abd gay community is equally identifiable.
at Gayborhood (n.) under gay, adj.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 31 May 34/1: The chatty doctor [...] may now be in a Namibian dungeon for shooting off his big yap.
at shoot off one’s mouth (v.) under shoot off, v.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 1 Feb. 40/1: Justin Timberlake (or as the Brits call him, Justin Trouser Snake).
at trouser snake (n.) under trouser, n.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 26 Sept. 8/2: Alan Butkovitz is engaged in political showboating.
at showboating (n.) under showboat, v.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 13 Feb. 30/5: A set piece built around racist Bible Belters.
at bible-belter (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 21 May 25/2: Things shoobies do that annoy locals [...] Boot camp on the beach [etc].
at shoobie, n.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 30 Mar. 31/3: Rage cages have taken off [...] 96.37 percent of the people polled would pay to ‘smash stuff to smithereens’.
at smithereens, n.
[US] Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 24 July A7/2: ‘Tankie’ as they called the husky teen.
at tankie, n.
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