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[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 137: [T]here are some who join the military because they’re hard-ass individuals and just like to lord it over other people.
at hard-ass, adj.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 277: It’s the strangest thing now with cancer: there are days when I’m just a basket case before we tape.
at basket case (n.) under basket, n.1
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 67: [O]n the air he was the perfect announcer, rock solid. So we delighted in trying to break him up.
at break up, v.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 47: It [i.e. a tape recorder] was a huge machine—not your five-dollar cheapo.
at cheapo, n.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 267: When I started doing crossword puzzles, I couldn’t do them for diddly.
at diddly, n.1
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 39: ‘Fasten that other button,’ they said. It put a bulge in the jacket and made me look dorky.
at dorky, adj.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 25: I had my own little Philco radio. [...] I’d listen to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and Fibber McGee and Molly [...] I was in hog heaven.
at hog heaven (n.) under hog, n.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 69: ‘Holy shit!’ I said. I jumped out of bed. ‘That’s it! I’m going to lose the bet!’.
at holy shit! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 67: He switched off his mic.
at mic, n.1
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 267: When I started doing crossword puzzles, I couldn’t do them for diddly. And now I’m ticked if I don’t finish them.
at ticked (off), adj.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 261: [T]here are certainly moments in my life [as a cancer sufferer]—when that will to survive disappears and I’m ready to pack it in.
at pack in (v.) under pack, v.1
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 266: But if I get a leak I can drag that sucker [i.e. a propane burner] onto the roof and do my thing.
at sucker, n.3
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 67: Once, I was doing a television newscast and a guy mooned me on the other side of the glass. I just barely kept it together.
at keep it together (v.) under together, adj.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 42: [M]y dad had managed to consume a bottle of rye and greeted me at the train station a little under the weather.
at under the weather (adj.) under weather, n.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 29: Maurice was incapable of constructing even one sentence without using the f-word as a noun, a verb, an adjective, or an exclamation point.
at -word, sfx
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 257: I’m a goddamn wuss. I start to cry for no reason at all.
at wuss, n.
[US] A. Trebek The Answer Is 40: [T]hese yo-yos who are just throwing their weight around for whatever reason.
at yoyo, n.1
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