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[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 192: It’s okay when you want to be sociable, when you want stuff happening. But when you want to lay back—.
at lay back, v.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 224: [Y]ou could get traded. [...] And then they’d want to beat your ass, the next day!
at break someone’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 150: [L]ike Tom Veryzer and I, we’re comin’ to the ballpark, right? And Tommy’s goin’—grabbin’ his throat and goin’, like, Choke.
at choke, v.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 80: Bob would say to me, How can you drink a six-pack every night? [. . . .] And I’d say, Bob, I’m just bored, y’know? I’m bored, man. If I had a chick I wouldn’t be—y’know, getting half as cocked as I am.
at cocked, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 33: ‘I’m hopin’ that they don’t screw up. And if they do, all right. I’m just sayin’, Hey, that’s cool. Don't worry about it!’.
at that’s cool under cool, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 112: [H]e wasn’t heads up. Y’know, he just got caught dazin’.
at daze, v.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 243: [T]hat ain’t Joni Mitchell [...] Someone pulled a deke right over my eyes.
at deke, n.2
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 33: Yeah, I’m just ready to do up my wife, and all of a sudden the phone rings!
at do up, v.1
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 33: ‘[T]hey flubbed up. They gave me a draft card sayin’ I was good. Then a month later they gave me another draft card sayin' I was no good’.
at flub, v.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 110: He literally told me, right from the first go. He said, Your knuckleball ain’t gonna do it.
at go-off, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 140: [V]oom—there’s a fast guy on third, and it was gone. It was good night.
at goodnight, phr.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 217: He said, Hey, you talk your baseball, I don’t give a hang.
at hang, n.1
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 112: [H]e wasn’t heads up. Y’know, he just got caught dazin’.
at heads-up, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 93: I said, Oh, this is it, baseball’s over now. Five and ten record, ten complete games I’m doin’ horseshit! [ibid.] 107: I stepped on the mound, and like, I threw horseshit.
at horseshit, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 15: Much of the talk is doubtless as it always has been—gravel-voiced baseball lifers benignly exchanging news and comparing notes over bourbon and cigars.
at lifer, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 81: He’s got it in first, he’s lettin’ the clutch in and out like a mother, just tryin’ to brake it.
at like a motherfucker (adv.) under motherfucker, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 193: I’m rappin’ to a nice chick, and all of a sudden this mullion chick comes up and says, I want a date.
at mullion, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 33: ‘T. So that's just natural, people move on. M. Yeah, you scatter’.
at scatter, v.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 33: ‘I really wasn’t into baseball. [...] I played it—yeah, Little League, pickup scrub teams, y’know’.
at scrub, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 121: And then you get a night where—you got a snizz with you now, a lady, right?
at snizz, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 117: T. You started striking out less guys, but you also stopped giving up so many walks. [...] M. Well, see, now you’re gettin’ down to stats.
at stat, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 20: [note] ‘My agent went through it [i.e. a manusript] and said there were too many swears’.
at swear, n.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 146: I’m gonna be so happy walkin’ outa that park. [...] I’m gonna be so happy that it’s gonna be ungodly.
at ungodly, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 15: ‘So-and-so said, I’ll give you four warm bodies for your third baseman’.
at warm body (n.) under warm, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 192: I mean, this is how weak the bartender was at the place. He goes, I tell you what, I’ll give you a free beer if you give me an autograph.
at weak, adj.
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 33: ‘[E]veryone started punchin’. . . I mean everyone was just whalin’ on each other’.
at whale, v.1
[US] Fidrych & Clark No Big Deal 146: [W]hen I won 6-3, I was so happy I walked back to my town. I said, Whoa [ibid.] 228: And here my dad was tellin’ me I’m gettin’ too drunk? When they’re staggerin’? I’m sitting there, Whoa!
at whoa!, excl.
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