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[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 76: They decided they had been ‘unfairly discriminated against on the basis of color.’ Whoa, Katie bar the door!
at Katy bar the door, phr.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 171: When we dropped acid my brother liked to smoke a little weed first, and as the initial LSD rush was coming on, to enjoy a jolt of amyl nitrate. Well, now, that was blasting off in style.
at blast off, v.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 86: But how on earth did he [a bar owner / bartender] manage with the hippies and their Jesus hair, tatterdemalion outfits, and blissed-out smiles?
at bliss out, v.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 84: She was stiff, Boiled as an owl.
at boiled, adj.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 189: I immediately booked a flight to Amsterdam in order to further my education. [...] My brother thought it was a bully idea.
at bully, adj.1
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 24: The New Jersey character—at least this part of Jersey—is straightforward, plainspoken to the point of bluntness, though not at all unfriendly. [...] It’s a beer-and-a-bump kind of place.
at bump, n.3
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 175: These were very girly boys and they were clearly giving me the business, aware that I was straight but also well aware that they were cute enough, post-hormone shots, to give a straight guy serious pause.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 42: Hey, scumbag, button it!
at button one’s lip, v.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 1279: We also went a little farther uptown [...] to visit a leather bar or two. [...] The two of us would have stuck out in our civvies, and my brother would have reveled in that and in any attendant menace it brought our way.
at civvies, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 74: [I]f the pod people from the Invasion of the Body Snatchers passed through town, it would be pretty dang difficult to tell who got turned and who stayed the same.
at dang, adv.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 19: Other popular terms of abuse were ‘faggot’ and ‘douche’.
at douchebag, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 19: Other popular terms of abuse were ‘faggot’ and ‘douche’.
at faggot, n.1
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 95: A fatso from up near Bodega Bay [...] voluble as all get-out and stinking of booze, is well into some large histoire or other .
at gasbag, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 68: ow it’s merely the name [i.e. of a strip bar]—Hong Kong Nile Club—that gets me going.
at get going, v.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 190: Europe was a hoot. I wasn’t there long and wound up having to move up my flight after getting into an altercation.
at hoot, n.4
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 36: I had made the acquaintance of an upmarket tequila, a golden ambrosial liquid, potent yet kind, and quite unlike the clear jet fuel to which I had been accustomed.
at jet fuel (n.) under jet, n.2
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 165: [M]y brother was a gambler. A professional gambler until his death at twenty-seven. Poker. High-low was his action. He was a major leaguer in that line [...] [I]t was high stakes from the start.
at major-leaguer (n.) under major-league, adj.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 183: At night we’d drive to the red-light district, each going our separate ways, then meeting up later.
at red light, n.1
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 163: [T]hey liked their soda and nuts, so I kept all that going on: my brother was always long on ginger ale and pistachios.
at long on (adj.) under long, adj.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 73: [of a bar] That little patch had my name on it, and I make note for the way back.
at have one’s name on (v.) under name, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 16: How old could that little blond number be over there with those two hoods?
at number, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 181: They were both dead solid queer, or so it seemed to me then, and now. [...] I do know he was desperately trying to straighten out and probably hoping LouAnne would be the girl to help him.
at straighten out, v.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 181: I don’t suppose he thought I was stealing her [...] But I think he would have liked to. Then his piggy little brother mucked things up.
at piggy, adj.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 18: Frankie’s a pussycat; he couldn’t hurt a fly.
at pussycat, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 83: When he was in good cheer [...] he would often hold forth. He had a number of routines or riffs.
at riff, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 42: I was most of the way through my fourth bourbon, rocks.
at rocks, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 10: While you’re at it, wipe the schmutz off your chin.
at schmutz, n.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 68: I’ve been in a hundred scuzzy joints like that.
at scuzzy, adj.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 165: How a nineteen-year-old at Wharton wound up playing with these thugs is beyond me, but my brother never lied about these things. If anything, he soft-pedaled his more outré associations.
at soft pedal (v.) under soft, adj.
[US] A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 176: A more congenial cruising ground, at least in milder weather, was along Christopher Street. I enjoyed sitting with [...] while he was taking in the talent.
at talent, n.
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