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[US] N. Walker Cherry 12: I doubt if he gives a fuck about what I’m up to.
at give a fuck, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 96: It was good to go AWOL.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 18: They were saying they’d have liked to have gone to college and fucked around reading about Sir Francis Bacon and all that shit.
at fuck about, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 8: Things get better, they get worse. Then one day you’re all the way thrown out, before you ever knew it was that serious.
at all the way, adv.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 127: ‘What should I tell him?’ ‘Tell him to eat shit and die’.
at eat shit (and die)!, excl.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 21: Madison could dance like a real bad-assed slut.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 271: Rider was bad news. He had asked me if I could kill somebody for him [...] Rider was full of shit.
at bad news, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 122: I’d just been following his lead. And he had about wiped out sliding down the berm. But nobody would bust his balls over it.
at break one’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 219: I’d always been a lightweight when it came to the benzodiazepines. But I was broke and the barrs were the only drugs I had.
at barr, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 41: We used to beat the shit out of each other to prove how tough we were.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 248: [L]ater, when Roy had stolen from us, Emily was real bent out of shape about it.
at bent out of shape (adj.) under bent, adj.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 8: And you might be crazy, and you might have a gun, but even then it’s usually no big deal.
at big deal, adj.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 238: ‘I’ve been here working [...] while you’re out playing the big shot and losing our goddamn money!’.
at big shot, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 170: I flipped him the bird and I said, ‘Fuck you and fuck your patrol’.
at flip a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[US] N. Walker Cherry 17: Madison Kowalski thought I was a bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[US] N. Walker Cherry 133: No one gave a shit. Really this was an inconvenience. So we bitched.
at bitch, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 17: I was going through a blotters phase.
at blotter, n.1
[US] N. Walker Cherry 136: [of Iraquis] [A] white bongo truck was coming down the road [...] I pulled my rifle up and aimed where I guessed the driver’s face was.
at bongo, n.1
[US] N. Walker Cherry 133: [T]he first sergeant hit the play button on the boom box and the Toby Keith song started playing.
at boombox, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 150: Several bros would ride in the Fuck Van and they’d be on the lookout. Then one bro would go ‘look’ and he’d point out a young woman.
at bro, n.1
[US] N. Walker Cherry 40: I spent a lot of time hanging out behind the restaurant, bullshitting.
at bullshit, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 106: The guy ended up living. So Burnes had done well and Thorpe was a hero—a no-bullshit, shot hero.
at no-bullshit (adj.) under bullshit, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 74: A bum asked me for a cigarette.
at bum, n.3
[US] N. Walker Cherry 28: We had burned a peach White Owl with Train Wreck in it, and so we were high as fuck.
at burn, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 25: This weird guy [...] said i should pop the ecsasy in my butt’.
at butt, n.1
[US] N. Walker Cherry 78: I told the one that he was a rapist. He asked me if I was Captain Save-a-Ho.
at Captain Save-a-ho (n.) under captain, n.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 44: Nobody thinks the food at Mi Aldea is good. The only reason he wants to take you there is cuz they don’t card.
at card, v.2
[US] N. Walker Cherry 271: He was the type to get people into fucked-up situations and hope that they’d perform miracles for him. Rider didn’t ever carry his own weight.
at carry one’s own weight (v.) under carry, v.
[US] N. Walker Cherry 148: Jimenez was a cherry. He was one of the replacements [...] after First Platoon lost the four guys killed [...] He hadn’t been around two months and he was dead.
at cherry, n.1
[US] N. Walker Cherry 121: We didn’t get much in the way of prior notice; then the sergeants were at us, going: ‘Git yer shit.’ ‘Chop chop, dalli dalli’.
at chop-chop, adv.
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