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[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 455: ‘New York, huh, Mister Murphy?’ ‘Fuckin’ A, right’.
at fucking-A, adv.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 14: A nappy, half-assed afro.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 180: ‘[Y]ou gotta. Bad. Attitude.’ ‘Your momma’s got a attitude’.
at attitude, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 17: A bag lady screaming at the sky.
at bag lady, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 62: ‘Some of ’em must have gotten pretty bent out of shape over there’ [i.e. Vietnam].
at bent out of shape (adj.) under bent, adj.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 242: [W]inos lurching down the sidewalk [...] half-blind on Thunderbird or Night Train.
at blind, adj.1
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 357: In Vietnam, black guys, “Bloods,” called the Vietnamese gooks, slopes and dinks’.
at blood, n.2
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 331: ‘God damn,’ he said aloud, the tension going. ‘Boy howdy’.
at boy howdy! (excl.) under boy, n.2
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 184: ‘You’re only showing disrespect for yourself, brother’.
at brother, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 33: ‘You’re looking buffed, looking bad. Working out [...] right?’.
at buffed, adj.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 455: [He] jumped to his feet and threw his arms up like a bulldogger going for time.
at bulldogger, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 127: ‘[Y]ou know how chickenshit the DA’s office is getting about search warrants’.
at chickenshit, adj.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 95: ‘Do I have a cocksucker in my barracks, sergeant?’.
at cocksucker, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 95: ‘Back in New Jersey, where I grew up, you know what we called ’em [i.e. homosexuals], sergeant?’ ‘No sir.’ ‘We called ’em ‘cornholers’.
at cornholer, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 157: ‘What a slimy little creep.’ [...] ‘They’re all slimy little creeps.
at creep, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 368: ‘Try not to step on your dick anymore’.
at step on one’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 357: In Vietnam, black guys, “Bloods,” called the Vietnamese gooks, slopes and dinks’.
at dink, n.2
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 22: [of police] They were the troublemakers, hot dogs, bad boys, adrenalin junkies back from Vietnam.
at hot dog, n.2
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 60: ‘Okee-doke,’ Hanson said, ‘We’ll go talk to the doctor’.
at okey-doke!, excl.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 25: The kind of junk weapons half the cops at North carried in their briefcases, ‘throwdown guns’ just in case they shot someone who wasn’t armed after all.
at throw-down, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 95: ‘Are you a cornholer, Private [...] A faggot? A homosexual?’.
at faggot, n.1
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 454: ‘I’m out of this faggot gin mill’.
at faggot, adj.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 274: They cheered as the patrol car went past, giving them the finger.
at give someone the finger (v.) under finger, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 322: [A] flophouse where residents hung their clothes from the chicken-wire ceilings.
at flophouse, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 257: ‘I flunked French one-oh-one’.
at flunk, v.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 10: [T]he son of a bitch–pardon my French–out in the county, who shot himself in the kitchen and left the stove on.
at excuse my French under French, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 310: ‘Salt and pepper f-faggots, [...] from down in the land of … fruits and nuts’.
at fruit, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 38: ‘Come on, you little fucker’.
at fucker, n.
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 491: ‘I should of let Animal Control have your gimpy old ass too’.
at gimpy, adj.2
[US] K. Anderson Night Dogs 153: ‘We took off the cuffs and told him we’d be right back…’ ‘And he went off on us’.
at go off, v.
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