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[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 142: ‘[Y]ou tell that goddamn, lousy, rotten piece of shit that it never was worth a fuck of anything’.
at not worth a fuck, phr.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 158: ‘Grover, these guys are only trying to jack you around. Don't ever listen to Donny unless he's telling you how to fuck the girl behind the Hertz counter’.
at jack around, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 55: ‘Okra’'s good for two vomits almost any day or night. The only thing I know of that can put okra away is tripe’.
at put away, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 146: [T]hey call [shots of attractive females] ‘hooking a barracuda,’ or ‘a honey shot,’ or, as a matter of fact, a ‘hold it’.
at barracuda, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 119: ‘I’m going to get a tit job and buy some clinging outfits, and go on all the talk shows and become the darling of the medical and literary world’.
at boob job (n.) under boob, n.3
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 45: Sports Illustrated would probably pay a lot of money for a story about how somebody on the golf tour used to be a hustler who went in the can and intentionally lost a lot of amateur tournaments.
at go in the can (v.) under can, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 156: ‘[T]hey’re always tryin’ to figure out a way to rob the dumb guys, who’ve already got their hands on the cheese?’.
at cheese, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 89: Donny claimed he handled the case coming back from the Hawaiian Open on the red-eye from Honolulu to Los Angeles.
at red-eye, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 29: ‘Ever-body [sic] wake up in here! Let's get with it!’.
at get with it! (excl.) under get with, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 165: He went dead solid goofy over Joy Needham.
at goofy, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 136: ‘[I]t’s just gonna be him . . . and . . . me. Heads up. [...] And I've been to all the big rodeos in that connection’.
at heads-up, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 28: A Hold It is some kind of a strong lady strolling around with an impressive body and a look of merriment in her eyes. When you see a Hold It on the tour [. . .] you tend to turn quietly to the guy you're paired with and say: ‘Uh, hold it. Hard left. Behind the front bunker’.
at hold it!, excl.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 146: [T]hey call [shots of attractive females] ‘hooking a barracuda,’ or ‘a honey shot,’ or, as a matter of fact, a ‘hold it’.
at honey-shot (n.) under honey, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 161: The least I figured he might do would be to wire up Pete Fernandez’s car, steal it [etc].
at hot-wire, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 88: Donny has a simple explanation for why there are all these indoor athletes around [...] ‘[W]hat else are they gonna do besides play Slip Off and Trick Fuck?’ .
at indoor athlete (n.) under indoor, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 30: Janie Ruth Rimmer was somebody I wouldn't mind having around for a while. [. . . .] So I put it right on her. I said why didn’t she venture out on the tour?
at put it on (someone), v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 190: A few years ago he went out to Vegas and hit a bunch of licks, mostly in those poker games.
at hit a lick (v.) under lick, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 169: I hope I find her still taking on Fort Worth, playing the game by Fort Worth’s rules, but kicking the piss out of it.
at kick the piss out of (v.) under piss, the, phr.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 209: I told her there was plenty of money in the checking account, and of course she had a whole purse full of plastic.
at plastic, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 158: ‘It wasn’t Tommy’s fault. I tempted him. [...] We started playin’ around and one thing led to another’.
at play around (v.) under play, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 162: She developed a reputation as a ‘party girl’ or a ‘swinger,’ or whatever you want to call it. She [. . .] had the knack for being able to play several guys at once .
at play, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 22: He thought he could play golf some, but he couldn't play so good that he needed to carry around as much money as he always did. I'd been in his pocket.
at in someone’s pocket under pocket, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 136: ‘[I]t’s just gonna be him . . . and . . . me. Heads up. [...] And I've been to all the big rodeos in that connection’.
at first rodeo (n.) under rodeo, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 146: [T]he cameraman covering the 15th hole was scanning around playfully trying to pick up Hold Its in the gallery so the fellows in the unit could enjoy the scenery.
at scenery, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 56: If you couldn't shoot the lights out at Goat Hills, then you needed Pretty Boy Floyd or John Dillinger for a partner.
at shoot the lights out (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 153: ‘Who could have any reason to tell you that me and Donny had been slippin' around?’ she asked.
at slip around (v.) under slip, v.2
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 146: And he's dead solid getting it on with a girl who's got her back turned to the camera.
at solid, adv.1
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 165: [T]hat trend among Fort Worth housewives toward neighborhood sport-fuckin’.
at sportfuck (v.) under sport, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 28: ‘Uh, hold it. Hard left. [...] White pants. Red blouse. Hmmmm. Stone Ache City’.
at stone-ache (n.) under stone, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Dead Solid Perfect 45: I know good and well that you throwed off the City Championship once because you were 6-up [...] with only ten holes to play, and you lost.
at throw, v.
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