1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 455: ‘New York, huh, Mister Murphy?’ ‘Fuckin’ A, right’.at fucking-A, adv.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 180: ‘[Y]ou gotta. Bad. Attitude.’ ‘Your momma’s got a attitude’.at attitude, n.
1998 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.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 242: [W]inos lurching down the sidewalk [...] half-blind on Thunderbird or Night Train.at blind, adj.1
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 357: In Vietnam, black guys, “Bloods,” called the Vietnamese gooks, slopes and dinks’.at blood, n.2
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 331: ‘God damn,’ he said aloud, the tension going. ‘Boy howdy’.at boy howdy! (excl.) under boy, n.2
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 184: ‘You’re only showing disrespect for yourself, brother’.at brother, n.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 33: ‘You’re looking buffed, looking bad. Working out [...] right?’.at buffed, adj.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 455: [He] jumped to his feet and threw his arms up like a bulldogger going for time.at bulldogger, n.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 127: ‘[Y]ou know how chickenshit the DA’s office is getting about search warrants’.at chickenshit, adj.
1998 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.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 157: ‘What a slimy little creep.’ [...] ‘They’re all slimy little creeps.at creep, n.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 368: ‘Try not to step on your dick anymore’.at step on one’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 357: In Vietnam, black guys, “Bloods,” called the Vietnamese gooks, slopes and dinks’.at dink, n.2
1998 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
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 60: ‘Okee-doke,’ Hanson said, ‘We’ll go talk to the doctor’.at okey-doke!, excl.
1998 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.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 95: ‘Are you a cornholer, Private [...] A faggot? A homosexual?’.at faggot, n.1
1998 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.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 322: [A] flophouse where residents hung their clothes from the chicken-wire ceilings.at flophouse, n.
1998 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.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 310: ‘Salt and pepper f-faggots, [...] from down in the land of … fruits and nuts’.at fruit, n.
1998 K. Anderson Night Dogs 491: ‘I should of let Animal Control have your gimpy old ass too’.at gimpy, adj.2
1998 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.