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The Hard Bounce choose

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[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] What I needed more than anything was to get back out and rip the world a new asshole.
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘You tell him we meet or he can go fuck a duck’.
at fuck a duck!, excl.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] Paranoid? Absofuckinglutely.
at absofuckinglutely, adv.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] In her haste [...] Ms. Reese had left behind her frilly little blue panties. [...] Should I call her and let her know she was air-surfing under her skirt?
at air-surf (v.) under air, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘You know what I got for you, alkie?’.
at alky, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘He thought you were stringing them for more money’.
at string (along), v.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] He hurdled an end table, shuck-and-jived around the television stand, and pushed over a large fern.
at shuck and jive, v.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] He had me by the short and curlies and damn well knew it.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘[Y]ou are a capable, smart, and professional young man.’ I was getting the dick-around.
at dick-around, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] Only Teddy’s had a half-full rocks glass of whiskey in front of him, whether in honest tribute or smartassery, I couldn’t tell.
at smart-assery (n.) under smart-arse, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘You looking for some ass, sailor?’ the kid yelled back, smacking his bony behind for emphasis.
at ass, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘[T]his cloak and dagger bullshit you’re feeding me is going right up my ass’.
at go up someone’s ass (v.) under ass, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] The guy is a hard-ass, but he’s a cop, for chrissakes’.
at hard-ass, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Then why don’t you stay here with your thumb up your ass and let me go meet with these jerkoffs’.
at sit there with one’s finger up one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘We don’t give a good shit about your whiny, pansy-ass music’.
at -ass, sfx
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘In other words, I can put my foot up the right asses’.
at put one’s foot in/up someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] Simultaneously, a tiny heel collided with my hairy beanbag.
at beanbag (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘This whole Little Girl Lost in the Big City shit? Been there, done that’.
at been there, done that, phr.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] One minute I’m an intimidating jerk, the next I’m the bee’s knees.
at bee’s knees, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘She’s okay. Scared from here to bejeezus, but she’s fine’.
at scare the bejazus out of (v.) under bejazus, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘I’m just glad I got to see ’em win a big one. Never thought I’d see the day’.
at big one, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Listen, it’s no biggie’.
at biggie, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] I downed my shot and chased it with my beer. The hair of the dog made me feel a bit better.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Going clam digging?’ I asked. ‘Bite me’.
at bite me! (excl.) under bite, v.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] We both knew some girls who worked that biz [i.e. prostitution].
at biz, n.1
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] [I] had bags under my eyes that looked like five pounds of shit stuffed into a two-pound sack.
at blivet, n.
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Hey!” I yelled at the cop. ‘Step off! Until you introduce yourself, you can blow me with the interrogation’.
at blow me!, excl.2
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] Junior said, ‘Dude, we’re boned.’ ‘We’re all right. I don’t think anybody saw us’.
at bone, v.2
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] [I]t suddenly popped into my head just what a bonehead move we [...] were about to make.
at bonehead play (n.) under bonehead, n.1
[US] T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘[D]o you wanna help me move this fucking thing or should I kiss your boo-boo first?’.
at boo-boo, n.5
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