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[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘I didn’t mean to step on your action [...] just showing up like this’.
at action, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘I got antsy and I knew you weren’t gonna fuck me’.
at antsy, adj.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] A Russian or Armenian badass.
at bad-ass, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘You saved my bacon back there, Shake’.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] [A] pair of hard-looking Egyptian guys with mustaches. In suits, no ties, hands at their sides. Devane’s beef.
at beef, n.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] Baby Jesus watched his boys load the white lady, the dama blanca that had arrived on Monday. Very good product, the finest, from Peru. Or Bolivia.
at dama blanca, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘“You blew it and you can never, ever have me again. [...] Sucks, doesn’t it?’.
at blow, v.2
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘If that doesn’t blow your mind, I don’t know what will’.
at blow someone’s mind, v.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] [A] high-level congressional staffer [...] who she’d probably have to boink after this.
at boink, v.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘I was a wheelman. The only thing I know about a break-and-take is how to drive away from one’.
at break-and-take (n.) under break, v.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘I rthought you weren’t a Mennonite’ [...] ‘When the cops come round I am [...] The real broad-brims in town, the buggy humpers, they don’t mind’.
at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] Devane had kept his eye on the attaché case. He didn’t think the old man was really a bump. Who would try something that clumsy?
at bump, n.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘Mr. James robbed UNESCO blind. And every other NGO in Cambodia [...] He bung-holed them senseless’.
at bunghole, v.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] Armando was asking Roger if everyone from Detroit liked giving the business to dogs and other stray animals [...] or was it just the pendejos like Roger?
at business, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] Devane would bust a few rails, find a comfy seat in the theater, and watch the show.
at bust a rail (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘[T]he carnie riffraff who worked the state-fair midway’.
at carney, n.2
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘ADX Florence. The federal supermax near Colorado Springs.’ [...] ‘They call it the Alcatraz of the Rockies,’she said. ‘Shank Central’.
at -central, sfx
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘Your plan is we chop the pot three ways’.
at chop, v.5
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘Last I heard, you were in prison. In the clink, the pokey’.
at clink, n.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] [I]t was a good thing he had such a goddam big cock.
at cock, n.3
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘About getting a woman in my bed. I was gonna give it the old college try’.
at college try (n.) under college, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘Cool your jets [...] Sometimes you have to cut to the chase’.
at cool one’s jets (v.) under cool, v.2
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘This was right after Ollie North, so everyone was in cover-their-ass mode’.
at cover (some)one’s ass (v.) under cover, v.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] DEA hadn’t wanted to let her take a crack at him, but Cory talked them into it.
at take a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘This guy Devane, he’s the real deal. He’s smart’.
at real deal, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] The old Kriol man who’d dimed them to Baby Jesus.
at dime, v.1
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] She was on her own dime this trip, not Uncle Sam’s.
at on someone’s dime (adv.) under dime, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘[I]f he didn’t get a job with the campaign, he’d take all the dirt he had [...] and dump it in public’.
at dirt, n.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] ‘Okeydokey,’ she said. ‘It’s been great catching up’.
at okey-doke!, excl.
[US] L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] Gina had never in her life been dumped. The possibility, to be honest, had never occurred to her.
at dump, v.
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