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[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 137: Tell me now, is the lady spook as good a bang as she looks?
at bang, n.1
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 136: You think you people are [...] the Swedes? You think they built a country like this one by being dumb boxheads?
at boxhead (n.) under box, n.1
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 4: In common with everyone in the first generation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the station chief invariably alluded to the agency as ‘the company’.
at Company, the, n.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 165: ‘With the Pentagon people here it might’ve been wise to play it real cozy.’ ‘Lie doggo, so to speak?’.
at play it cozy (v.) under cozy, adv.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 184: ‘She’s going to be in the feathers some night with a young man who’s hung like a buffalo’.
at in the feathers under feather, n.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 20: The white man is finished in Gyppy. [...] Farouk will be in exile in a year.
at gippy, n.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 162: Do you know who armed both sides in the India-Pakistan war? [...] Arming two starving mobs of ragheads who haven’t enough wit to learn to farm in five thousand years.
at rag-head, n.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 182: That’s two guys who might someday come to be bad friends with you, and mouse.
at mouse, v.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 70: There must have been a dozen opportunities to wash him out before he left London. Why wasn’t it done?
at wash out, v.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 140: It scares the peawadding out of you to think about it [i.e. a parachute jump].
at scare the peawadding out of (v.) under peawadding, n.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 89: ‘[H]e’s a red-assed Commie who is right this minute hatching trouble’.
at red, adj.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 111: ‘You can’t stop me, and I don’t believe your spooky colleagues can stop me’.
at spooky (adj.) under spook, n.
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 145: ‘So it’s to be a spook operation after all?’.
at spook, adj.2
[US] R. Starnes Requiem in Utopia 162: ‘Love is the opium of the proletariat? [...] Steady tail is for the common people?’.
at tail, n.
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