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[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 171: ‘How is our movie progressing?’ said Big Earl. [...] I said, ‘There are a lot of things still up in the air’.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 11: ‘They’d jump through their butt if they saw this [i.e. sensor-operated lighting] in Cotulla’.
at jump through one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 311: Eight fucking years in Huntsville behind that wall for smoking a native weed that grows wild.
at behind the walls (adv.) under behind, prep.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 167: The cops used to pick up known characters on sight, stick them in jail on suspicion of whatever burglaries, thefts or armed robberies were current, kick them around a bit and parade them at line-ups.
at character, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 248: ‘That was a lot of cheap-shit stuff,’ I said, smiling back. ‘Be charming, Tex,’ he muttered.
at cheap, adj.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 209: ‘I’ve just stopped off from the Coast and I’m taking the red-eye to New York’.
at Coast, the, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 269: ‘What are you doing here [i.e. Dallas PD HQ]?’ said one. ‘You turned into a coppie?’.
at coppy, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 372: ‘Dorothy, tell them I was dead game to the end,’ I said.
at dead game (adj.) under dead, adj.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 176: [W]e did up about a spoon of coke in about three snorts.
at do up, v.1
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 208: We did off with the Torpedo and then sat staring at television for a few minutes.
at do, v.1
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 245: ‘The President is a stud doll,’ one of the girls said.
at doll, n.1
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 278: This one boy [...] thought he was so cool, but he just acted crazy. He tried to feel me’.
at feel, v.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 3: She laughed hoarsely and screamed, ‘What the fog are you doing, Francis?’.
at what the fuck, phr.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 48: ‘Girls fog for a lot of reasons [...] Sometimes a girl will fog for kicks or join in a threesome or a group.
at fuck, v.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 259: [of the Kennedys] She had the look of celebrity [...] a movie star’s smile that [...] said keep away I’m doing all right, his said we’ve got it going and I love it all.
at have it going (on) under going on, phr.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 186: Shit, they sell it for $200 a pound without no trouble, maybe $300 a pound if it’s good gold.
at gold, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 147: ‘Think you’re a stud badass, huh? You be there Thursday morning, hoss’.
at horse, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 157: [H]e became serious about photography as a potential hustle.
at hustle, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 166: The motorcycle jocks never went to the drive-in cafés many of us frequented.
at jock, n.2
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 335: [W]e went [...] for another drink before going home. I was fairly muddled by then.
at muddled, adj.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 241: ‘Man, those people out there don’t know what grass smells like. I could walk through the room puffing a number and they’d think I was smoking like tobacco from Turkey’.
at number, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 19: She brought one of them [i.e. ‘beatnik trash’] with her last summer. Some peach!
at peach, n.1
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 202: [A] drink we used to call Purple Jesus, which was one-third each of gin, grapefruit juice and grape juice.
at purple Jesus (n.) under purple, adj.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 38: Driving through this area conjured up faces of [. . .] street rats [...] Nearly all the kids I knew were thieves at ten or twelve.
at street rat (n.) under rat, n.1
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 183: ‘I might of made a run at her, but her old man was hanging around for a while’.
at make a run (v.) under run, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 344: ‘If you’re a gringo and got money, they’ll snap shit at the big hotels in Mexico City or Acapulco’.
at snap shit (v.) under shit, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 4: I starred as a genuine, authentic, pistol-shooting, shit-kicking cowboy.
at shitkicking, adj.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 150: The speed-freak actor, who had just been released from the hospital, jumped off the porch and broke his leg.
at speed freak (n.) under speed, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 57: Her thatch was like a sparrow’s nest.
at thatch, n.
[US] E. Shrake Strange Peaches 208: [T]he joints grew into Camels, chalk sticks, Thumbs, Torpedoes and even Corona Supremes.
at thumb, n.
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