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The Cruisers: Checkmate choose

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[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 94: ‘Jamie Pullman played the King’s Gambit against a master last week and cooked him’.
at cook, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 2: ‘They’re hiring me on the strength of my demo. I don’t even have to audition’.
at demo, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 26: ‘[I]f the rest of you guys are down with it, I’d sure like to try’.
at down with under down, adv.2
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 97: The games moved along slowly, with the geeks and geekettes [...] playing them on their own chessboards.
at geek, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 51: I didn’t like Mr. Weinstein [...] He was a gym teacher and kind of jocky.
at jocky (adj.) under jock, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 76: [He] was strong and did a lot of pushing but he couldn’t really sky.
at sky, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 76: I was wondering if Cody was going soft on Bobbi.
at soft, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 104: ‘[Y]ou’ve been sweating her for over a year now and just got up the nerve to make your move!’.
at sweat, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: Checkmate 58: That bathroom is where we found her body.’ It was, like—whoa!’.
at whoa!, excl.
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