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[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 149: To Jeff she said, ‘You ought to see my dad’s apartment. He can show movies and everything.’ ‘All right!’ Jeff said.
at all right!, excl.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 90: ‘Between you and I, the Big Guy’s wig has slipped [...] The Big Guy has got squirrels in his attic’.
at have squirrels in one’s attic (phr.) under attic, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 72: [of a TV show] ‘It’s your baby, Jack. You rock it,’ I said.
at baby, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 62: ‘Hell of a track record in News, Frank. I mean, the space shots, the hearings, the whole bag of tricks’ .
at whole bag of tricks, the, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 236: ‘I hope seeing Jeff was worth getting caught,’ I said. Cindy wrinkled her nose and said, ‘Yuk. Jeff. Blaaah’ .
at blah!, excl.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 275: Hank handled all of the surprises we were confronted with in his usual professional manner. ‘It’s just experience, old bloke,’ he said.
at bloke, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 59: ‘I seen him at the track today. He gimme inside speed, but it was outside closers. I got drowned’ .
at drowned (in the mercer’s book), adj.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 108: Cooper’s Binniss, the .32 snubnose Smith & Wesson, was half buried in Dutch’s navel.
at business, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 233: I tried to cool her out. Like give her the water pipe to get straight, but she starts cryin’, man.
at cool out, v.2
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 234: Cooper said, ‘I think if I was you, cousin, I’d get on down to Ft. Lauderdale quick as I could’.
at cousin, n.2
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 41: ‘Everybody wants to talk to me all the sudden. What’s the deal?’ .
at what’s the deal?, phr.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 119: But it’s come to where none of this stuff means a doodly shit.
at doodley-shit, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 33: ‘We’ll have to eat the time, but if that’s how the Big Guy wants to spend his money, there’s no skin off my butt’.
at eat, v.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 289: ‘It was a smasheroo, remember?’ .
at -eroo, sfx
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 148: ‘Surfing’s an art form. Surfing’s where you just get it together, man [...] You’re goin’ for it’.
at go for it, v.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 235: Cooper [. . . .] had an idea that he might call Marcie and say that he and I were looking for Cindy in different places. That way, he would take the heat .
at take the heat (v.) under heat, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 82: ‘In Act Three, the duet between the Count and Susanna, that lays me out, man’.
at lay out, v.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 149: I’m like mellowed out for the summer,’ said Jeff.
at mellow out (v.) under mellow, adj.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 157: ‘By the way, is this the move?’ I laughed and realized I was sitting very close to her. In fact, our arms were touching.
at move, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 149: ‘Like you can really trip out on a fifteen-footer [i.e. a wave]. It’s really radical’ .
at trip out, v.1
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 149: ‘Like you can really trip out on a fifteen-footer [i.e. a wave]. It’s really radical’ .
at radical, adj.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 153: He continued to read the room. ‘This fucking place is Homewreckers Anonymous’.
at read, v.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 61: [He] knocked his chair over and poured most of a Galliano rocks on his Gucci.
at rocks, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 25: [of a TV network] ‘[I]t’s no secret to you that I didn’t have a damn thing to do with bringing you over to our store’.
at sell, v.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 21: ‘You sure Gotham needs another shitkicker nightclub?’.
at shitkicker, adj.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 152: Stanley’s hand was outstretched. ‘Put it in the vise, slugger’.
at slugger, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 25: [of a TV network] ‘[I]t’s no secret to you that I didn’t have a damn thing to do with bringing you over to our store’.
at store, n.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 5: Cooper was my driver, my personal appointments secretary, and you could say my bodyguard [...] Mainly, he was my walk-around guy.
at walkaround guy (n.) under walk, v.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 138: ‘See the redhead over there in the two-ounce dress? I gave her a little tongue-o, wham-o a while back—on the back of the neck. [...] I think she got a wide-on.’ .
at wide-on (n.) under wide, adj.
[US] Jenkins & Shrake Limo 90: ‘Between you and I, the Big Guy’s wig has slipped [...] The Big Guy has got squirrels in his attic’.
at slip one’s wig (v.) under wig, n.2
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