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The Outside Shot choose

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[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 78: His boss kicks his butt, his telephone bills kick his butt, everything kicks his butt.
at kick someone’s butt (v.) under butt, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 137: [A] lot of them would be trying to jive the professor [...] and he would call them down for it.
at call down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 78: Chances are he’s either not married or he’s got some dame that’s breaking his chops.
at bust someone’s chops (v.) under chops, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 158: We could make it up if things went right for us. If we all busted our chops.
at bust one’s chops (v.) under chops, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 145: Sometimes you play against a team of rinky-dinks and you play just enough to win.
at rinky dink, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 88: Teufel and Leeds wanted me to help them win games but not be too out front when I did it.
at up front, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 178: ‘You weren’t just being sick and talking out of your head, were you?’.
at out of one’s head (adj.) under head, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 76: I had hustled food from the supermarket when I was ten.
at hustle, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 171: [A]t the end of the game it had been Larson who had iced it for us.
at ice, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 165: ‘Every brother that’s out there playing gets jived around when one brother blows’.
at jive around (v.) under jive, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 50: I bet you got an old man?’ ‘No, I guess not’ .
at old man, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 95: ‘[I]f we lose, he wins because we didn’t beat the spread. That’s smart money, man’.
at smart money (n.) under money, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 95: ‘The Fat Man is smart money. Guys like that don’t lose’.
at smart money (n.) under money, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 124: ‘How she look?’ I asked. ‘She ain’t that bad,’ Go-Go said. ‘And I think her favorite pastime is parking’.
at parking, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 79: [of match-fixing in basketball by manipulating the points spread] He did okay [in the NBA] until he got in with some gamblers and started shaving points.
at shave, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 73: We could see him standing out front [...] like he didn’t know whether to spit or go blind.
at not know whether to shit or go blind (v.) under shit, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 45: ‘You can play guitar, Lonnie on skins, me on horn’.
at skin, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 6: A thin wisp of smoke was coming up [...] ‘Oh, sweat, I got a fire started’.
at oh, sweat! (excl.) under sweat, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 137: [A]fter a while I didn’t tighten up if he [i.e. a teacher] called on me.
at tighten (up), v.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 50: ‘Neither one of us has anybody heavy, so you know, maybe we can get together’.
at get together (v.) under together, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Outside Shot 135: ‘If Hauser has a big game [...] he might get a tumble from the pros’.
at tumble, n.
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