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[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 269: ‘No sweat,’ she said. ‘I’m all over it [i.e. some information].’ .
at all over, adj.2
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 210: ‘Man, we’re snowed under. [...] We’ve had drive-bys out the ass, all over town. Seven dead, sixteen wounded’.
at out the ass under ass, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 25: ‘But that’s where he lays up with his honeys?’ [...] ‘Two blocks from his own house? Two blocks from his wife?’.
at lay back, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 33: ‘This hard-on showed up, Claude. It was a big-time bulb, a fucking blue veiner, man’.
at blue vein, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 170: ‘I don’t think I’d bet my stack on how different Tracy is.’ ‘You’ll see. You can book it’.
at book, v.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 36: [S]he’d spent a pleasureable two hours on her back, with her legs spread for Tommy Earl’s face, occasionally murmuring, ‘Oh, yeah, baby, do it . . . go there . . . bring it’.
at bring it on! (excl.) under bring, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 33: ‘This hard-on showed up, Claude. It was a big-time bulb, a fucking blue veiner, man’.
at bulb, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 57: ‘[T]he bureaucrats. All those gubmint buttwipes you can’t kill but have to get along with’.
at butt wipe (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 387: ‘If you can’t chuck the receiver inside the five-yard rule, chuck the sumbitch after that!’ .
at chuck, v.2
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 159: The agent promised to do everything in her power to see that Shake’s book stayed on the [best-seller] list for as long as possible, but in the meantime they ought to ‘cook.’ .
at cook, v.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 70: ‘Somewhere in the middle of all this, I’ll find myself smiling at a dicknose in the health department’.
at dicknose (n.) under dick, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 295: ‘When the going gets tough, always remember how the little pissant David was a forty-point dog when he went up against Goliath’.
at dog, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 387: ‘I don’t need to tell you we’re in this dogfight. We got us a chance to write sports history’.
at dog-fight (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 171: ‘You got dusted.’ ‘Probably, but it’s okay. She was a little bony for my taste’ .
at dust (off) (v.) under dust, v.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 258: ‘What year did the dykes land in Provincetown?’ ‘The Ellens were there?’ ‘Ellens I could handle’.
at Ellen, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 6: ‘I suppose shirt-lifter is better than fag,’ I said casually. ‘Sounds almost jovial.’ ‘Shirt-lifters . . . greyhounds . . . Fifis . . .’ .
at fifi, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 49: ‘We’ve got some fruits and nuts on our faculty who’d have to put cold rags on their foreheads if they heard you call ‘em Japs instead of Jap-oh-nese’.
at fruit and nut (n.) under fruit, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 369: ‘He said his assignment in the beginning was to distract me from you in case there was some heat between us’.
at heat, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 48: ‘One of the great myths is that the Japs are smart. [...] They’ve been ironed out in California real estate’.
at iron out (v.) under iron, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 164: I’ve always known my limitations. It’s time to hang up my jock’.
at hang up one’s jock (v.) under jock, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 298: We asked Nita and Jennelle for ice and water and soda setups for the bottles of Junior and Count Smirn.
at junior, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 84: ‘Is something testy going on here? Are we testo, kiddies?’ .
at kiddy, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 75: There were a couple of hours to kill before I went to meet the coach.
at kill, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 21: ‘I mean, shit, half the time, you can’t get kids to do what you tell ‘em to do. Not today. No livin’ way’ .
at living, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 296: I showed her the stadium going up—guys working through the holidays, money-whipped by her daddy.
at money-whip (v.) under money, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 268: ‘Want a sip?’ ‘What is it?’ ‘Purple Jesus. Vodka and grape juice’.
at purple Jesus (n.) under purple, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 336: I was about to run out of names, I did have Cornel Wilde and Gene Tierney rat-holed.
at rathole, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 298: We asked Nita and Jennelle for ice and water and soda setups for the bottles of Junior and Count Smirn.
at set-up, n.1
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 37: ‘Sugar, you shouldn’t make sport of them people. That’s the backbone of America you’re talking about.’ ‘You could fool me,’ Tracy said. A lot of shithooks is all I ever saw’ .
at shithook (n.) under shit, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Rude Behavior 403: ‘[T]he important thing is just to be here, isn’t it?’ ‘Like shit.’ .
at like shit! (excl.) under shit, n.
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