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[US] T. Pluck ‘Freedom Bird’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 3: Martins had missed the freedom bird by a cunt hair.
at freedom bird, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Freedom Bird’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 2: [H]eaving crates of ‘cheap dago red for the spaghetti and meatball joints’.
at dago red (n.) under dago, adj.1
[US] T. Pluck ‘Glutton for Punishment’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 48: I wake up in bed with a goose egg on my eyebrow.
at goose egg, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Van Candy’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 288: ‘You fugger! You gonna die!’.
at fucker, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Glutton for Punishment’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 36: ‘Sixteen pounds, Terry. You know what else weighs sixteen pounds? A sledgehammer. Don’t be a hardhead’.
at hardhead, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Freedom Bird’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 3: You just needed to ride him a bit hard.
at ride, v.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Freedom Bird’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 2: ‘You think he’s gonna let you drive it, the way he shits all over you?’.
at shit on (v.) under shit, v.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Van Candy’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 288: [W]e drop the shitkicker’s bike and run like pit bulls with tasers up their ass.
at shitkicker, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Legacy of Brutality’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 61: ‘That boy dumb as dirt and twice as ugly.’ ‘Look like someone try knock his brains out with the ugly stick’.
at beat with an ugly stick (v.) under ugly stick, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Tiger Mother’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 153: ‘I’m not about to lose my Lewis like his no-account father’.
at no-account, adj.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 182: ‘Hush, lard ass’.
at lard-ass, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 163: ‘They’ve made the mountain dew since I was your age’.
at mountain dew, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 160: She left her flops on the path [...] then stood chewing her cud and waited for you to step in one.
at flop, n.6
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 167: ‘They sent him on a snipe hunt all over the state, and by the time Joe realized he’d been fooled [etc]’.
at snipe hunt, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 160: [S]lumped in his crooked chair with an uncorked jug of lightning dangling from one finger.
at lightning, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 161: ‘The one who went plumb bereft and clawed out his own peepers when his woman died’.
at peeper, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 160: Red’s Paw liked nothing better than to set on the porch with a jug of shine.
at shine, n.4
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 160: Mr Collins laughed and slugged back a wallop of shine.
at slug, v.1
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 167: ‘A which who likes watchiing him whup the tar out of me’.
at kick the tar out of (v.) under tar, n.3
[US] T. Pluck ‘Summer of Blind Joe Death’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 160: Mr Collins laughed and slugged back a wallop of shine.
at wallop, n.2
[US] T. Pluck ‘Junkyard Dog’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 204: ‘Jello give you five hundred for that dog, Cee,’ the fat footballer says. ‘You got five yards, old man?’.
at yard, n.3
[US] T. Pluck ‘Six Feet Under God’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 187: [I]f I was a quitter, I’d have done the Dutch years ago.
at Dutch act, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Six Feet Under God’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 190: ‘Amscray, shamus’.
at amscray, v.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Six Feet Under God’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 187: [I]t was time to stop bellyaching.
at bellyache, v.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Six Feet Under God’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 187: I took a slug of bottom-shelf rotgut for breakfast.
at bottom-shelf, adj.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Story of O Street’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 56: The suit was tight in the crotch, and Frank adjusted the boys.
at boys, the, n.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Junkyard Dog’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 203: The anvil fetches a good price. We divvy up.
at divvy, v.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Junkyard Dog’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 204: ‘You know how much these dubs cost?’ ‘They ain’t dubs, Cee [...] They eighteens’.
at dubs, n.3
[US] T. Pluck ‘Story of O Street’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 56: The poster of Farrah Fawcett he had flogged himself silly to.
at flog, v.
[US] T. Pluck ‘Six Feet Under God’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 192: ‘I got tired of mean people like you harshing my mellow’.
at harsh, v.
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