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[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 162: ‘You’re that cop! The Monkey Man!’ ‘Fuckin’ A,’ Chris says.
at fucking A!, excl.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Broken’ in Broken 10: Harold still has AK boy pinned against the wall.
at a.k., n.3
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 166: ‘How did you do?’ ‘Aced it, of course’.
at ace, v.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 211: The neo-hippie acid victim.
at acid, n.1
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 206: ‘When Shafe drinks he can get aggro’.
at aggro, adj.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Broken’ in Broken 10: Half an hour later, the boat is awash with alphabet soup.
at alphabet soup (n.) under alphabet, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Crime 101’ in Broken 63: Lou is five-ten with some salt creeping into the pepper of his ink-black hair.
at salt-and-pepper, adj.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Paradise’ in Broken 241: [A] three-time loser, a B&E artist whose greatest skill was getting caught.
at b and e, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 158: ‘My boss is up my ass’.
at up someone’s arse/ass under arse, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Crime 101’ in Broken 104: [of highways] ‘I wouldn’t know the 5 from the 101 from a hole in the ground’.
at not know one’s arse/ass from a hole in the ground (v.) under arse, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 206: ‘I sure as shit wouldn’t tell you’.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 206: ‘He’ll leave you in the soup to save his own ass’.
at ass, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 127: But really, what kind of total dumb-ass would toss a revolver away in a zoo?
at dumb-ass, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Broken’ in Broken 22: This Oscar asshole is new.
at asshole, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 180: Terry went away for a year and a half.
at go away (v.) under away, adj.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 160: If anyone except Lee tried to make me his baby, Lee beat him up.
at baby, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 151: Chris doesn’t have the balls to go back there yet.
at balls, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Crime 101’ in Broken 69: ‘How about bangers and mash?’.
at banger, n.3
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 209: [A] stakeout, the tedium of which used to drive him batshit crazy.
at batshit, adj.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 133: [A] drunk middle-aged husband was beating the shit out of his drunk middle-aged wife.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 190: [I]n addition to the beater car, he sports a black goatee.
at beater, n.2
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 128: Two felony beefs.
at beef, n.2
[US] D. Winslow ‘Paradise’ in Broken 253: ‘You like beef, boy?’ Ben doesn’t know much Hawaiian slang, yet he’s pretty sure this guy [...] is asking him if he wants to fight.
at beef, n.2
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 190: Neal is [...] a big deal in his field.
at big deal, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 191: ‘A big-ticket jumper’ [...] ‘Does he have a name?’.
at big-ticket, adj.
[US] D. Winslow ‘Paradise’ in Broken 258: Killed a biker in his last stint [in prison].
at biker, n.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 138: The drunk has to be six-four, two and a half bills, and most of it is muscle.
at bill, n.3
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 161: He grabs Hollis by the front of his shirt and bitch-slaps him back and forth.
at bitch slap, v.
[US] D. Winslow ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 128: That was the best part, the monkey making the cop a bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[US] D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 202: ‘It’s a bitch, isn’t it?’.
at bitch, n.1
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