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[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 78: ‘e’ll drop his cookies’.
at cookie, n.1
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 339: ‘Oh, he have himself a dilly of a headache’.
at dilly, n.2
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 116: She was always turning up with some [...] little flimflam that went hay-wire after a day or two.
at flim-flam, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 320: It was bad luck that their fridge had gone flooey.
at go flooey (v.) under flooey!, excl.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 201: I stopped cleaning the pool. It filled up with green gick.
at gick, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 42: ‘Stop gouging me, you bastard’.
at gouge, v.1
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 333: ‘Jesus, what are you talking about? [...] Don’t hand me that’.
at hand, v.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 48: I got jism on the Bible.
at jism, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 292: Fran’s a big tall drink of water.
at long drink (of water) (n.) under long, adj.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 196: This Ross guy spent his time repairing things [...] I had his number, Mr Fixit.
at Mr Fixit (n.) under Mr, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 27: ‘Look at the ass on that’ [...] ‘Some jokers like their quim fat’.
at quim, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 356: ‘For shit’s sake!’ she said.
at for shit’s sake! (excl.) under shit, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 73: ‘You guys ready for another smoke?’.
at smoke, n.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 354: She said she told her she didn’t swing that way.
at swing, v.
[US] R. Carver Stories (1985) 15: ‘How is old tub of guts doing’.
at tub of guts (n.) under tub, n.1
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