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The Franchise Babe choose

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[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 108: ‘You sure you ain’t been there with the mama?’ he said. ‘Not even close’.
at been there, phr.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 33: He was a marine in the Big Deuce. He hit the beach at Okinawa.
at big deuce (n.) under big, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 63: What do you make, big-time golf writer? One seventy-five? Two bills?
at bill, n.3
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 22: I had no intention of getting boxed that evening.
at boxed, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 108: Hoyt said it had been his experience as he traveled the road of life that friendship tended to get in the way of cooze.
at cooze, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 19: Milk Duds, sour balls, and chewing gum weren’t doing it for me.
at do it, v.1
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 129: Debbie was a gamer, you had to admit. Bruises and all.
at gamer, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 107: [A] jam-up mother-daughter combo, the kind that would entice a man to buy them automobiles in assorted colors.
at jam-up, adj.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 199: Ginger played jam-up, threw down a 71.
at jam-up, adv.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 108: [F]riendship tended to get in the way of cooze. ‘Cooze,’ I said [...] ‘You got a word you like better? Some folks prefer juicy.’ .
at juicy, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 148: ‘Jack, you of all people should know that golf tournaments today are named whatever the money wants them named’ .
at money, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 106: ‘My mortal lock was Nebraska over Alabama in the Orange Bowl’.
at mortal lock (n.) under mortal, adj.1
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 116: She said, ‘Dang, I’m quittin’ this stinkin’ job right now.’ And she was outta there.
at out of there, phr.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 5: She’d already been second twice this year and scooped $200,000.
at scoop, v.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 63: You can’t guarantee a cover, Howie [...] you don’t have enough stroke to get it done’.
at stroke, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 144: It [i.e. a ‘whiffed’ golf shot] was an embarrassing example of an athlete having a train wreck.
at train wreck, n.2
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 3: [S]he was also first-team upstairs in a formfitting, sleeveless, scoop-neck white top.
at upstairs, n.
[US] D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 117: Rusty Morrison, who’d had more than one vod, interrupted to say [etc].
at vodders, n.
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