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[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 21 Apr. 11/5: Thdere are better opportunities on a farm today than in the city, if one sticks to one’s knitting.
at stick to one’s knitting (v.) under stick to, v.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 7 May 25/3: Oh boy — are bobby-sex getting snitzy! The latest have ruffles round their cuffs.
at snitzy, adj.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 24 Sept. 17/1: The suspects, reportedly ‘stir-wise,’ aren’t in a hurry to confess.
at stirwise (adj.) under stir, n.1
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 10 June 27/1: Selam has been [...] directing the left field bleacher throng into a roaring ‘sky-rocket’ cheer.
at sky rocket (cheer), n.1
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 24 May 4C/8: I [...] broke my hand [...] I didn’t give it my best shot.
at one’s best shot (n.) under shot, n.1
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 8 Apr. 6/5: [headline] Suds-Day Morning Counting Down.
at sudsday, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 30 Sept. 191/2: Tchatchkas, knick-knacks — whatever you call them [...] can liven a house enormously.
at tchotchke, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 1 July 1/1: Paul, the self-proclaimed expert on ‘schrooms’ [sic] describes the schroom high as a mild psychedelic that he finds quite pleasant.
at shrooms, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 9 Oct. 16/4: A beer jerker serves beer.
at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) sect. 1 16 Mar. 1/3: That show is worth seeing by rock fans and curious straightniks alike.
at straightnik (n.) under straight, adj.1
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 27 Dec. 52/1: There are now enough laws such as spitting on a public walkway [...] to keep an individual in the sheriff’s hotel (jail) if the system choses.
at sheriff’s hotel (n.) under sheriff, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 9 Apr. 5E/3: ‘Am I the prettiest?’ queries Shogun of his followers, who reliably answer ‘Sho’nuff!’.
at sho’ ’nuff, phr.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 14 Oct. 8F/3: The condo crowds who will soon begin flocking to South Florida’s Bagel Belt for the winter.
at bagel belt (n.) under bagel, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 10 Jan. 2/1: Bush spoke of the Geneva meeting [...] ‘This was a total stiff-arm. This is a total rebuff. [...] We were stiff-armed by an intransigent foreign minister’.
at stiff-arm (v.) under stiff, adj.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 26 May 55/3: An instrumental blend of funk, R&B and jazz fusion sounds that snarked off purists.
at snark, v.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 15 Mar. 1/1: Without [‘the danger of discovery'] it [i.e. marijuana] has as much thrill as a double vodka at your neighborhoos swillery.
at swillery, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 18 Mar. 10/2: Federal lawmakers can [...] be held hostage by these special interwest groups and jump to their will like spit on a hot griddle.
at like shit off a shovel (adv.) under shit, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 29 July 23/4: ‘I can still go out and get slaughtered drunk and enjoy myself’.
at slaughtered, adj.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 22 Feb. 3E/1: Once a day, Oprah Winfrey snarked off my wife.
at snark, v.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 14 May C1/5: Let me apologize [for my] state of swagless being [...] From eavesdropping on kids via Twitter, swag is [...] style and attitude.
at swagless (adj.) under swag, n.4
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) PM2/3A well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm [...] gets the ax: .
at axe, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) PM2/3A high-end Manhattan firm [...] has suddenly hit the skids: .
at hit the skids (v.) under skids, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 14 Oct. 2B/4: He should follow his Trumpian instincts and embrace the blingy opulence.
at blingy (adj.) under bling, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 14 Oct. 2B/4: ‘I take over the world when I’m on my Donald trump s— . Look at all this money, ain’t that some s— ?’.
at shit, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 30 Aug. T44/4: Instead of male or female [are] categories [...] ‘stone butch,’ ‘femme daddy’.
at butch, n.1
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 30 Aug. T44/4: Instead of male or female [are] categories [...] ‘stone butch,’ ‘femme daddy’.
at daddy, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 30 Aug. T44/4: Instead of male or female [are] categories [...] ‘stone butch,’ ‘femme daddy’.
at femme, n.
[US] Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 30 Aug. T44/4: Instead of male or female [are] categories [...] ‘stone butch,’ ‘femme daddy’.
at stone, adv.
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