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[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 10: [T]he beautiful woman who also happened to be an ace at crosswords.
at ace, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 9: They [i.e. a ‘built in cubbie’] are just the perfect thing for all kinds of bits and bobs.
at bits and bobs, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 151: ‘I just picture you as this badass mom [...] [d]oing your job with a baby strapped to your chest’.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 81: [H]is father, a big shot in private equity, [...] got him into Dartmouth .
at big shot, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 204: [W]hen they drank Georgina slipped quickly from buzzed to blackout.
at blackout, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 120: Brady playfully bopped Georgiana on her bum with his racket.
at bop, v.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 155: ‘Vara, when I have a reason to discuss the sartorial choices of breeders I will do so. Now stop it’ .
at breeder, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 64: They talked about Brady’s travel bug; about the year he spent in the Peace Corps, stationed in Uganda.
at bug, n.4
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 256: She would have carried her cooler of breast milk past the bullpen of associates mooing like cows.
at bullpen, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 204: [W]hen they drank Georgina slipped quickly from buzzed to blackout.
at buzzed, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 256: He had somehow managed to play both sides, never calling out his sisters, never truly promising to pick Sasha and put his wife first.
at call (out) (v.) under call, v.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 1340: ‘Christ on a cracker.’ She showed Darley the screen, her father and brother holding the small brown bat in a net, victorious.
at Christ on a crutch! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 231: ‘Jesus, keep your clothes on, George.’ Cord tried to reel his sister in.
at keep your clothes on! (excl.) under clothes, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 73: ‘My apartment is just down the street, want to come over for a beer or a drink?’ ‘Oh, sure, that would be cool’.
at cool, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 20: Georgiana had [. . .] an enormous, goofy, childlike, and mortifying crush. His name was Brady .
at crush, n.2
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 65: ‘[W]e boned a lot.’ Cord nodded seriously. ‘Mostly doggy style’.
at doggy style, adv.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 21: [S]he was lowly support staff, fangirling the organization’s successes in the field and writing it up in the newsletter .
at fangirl, v.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 31: Georgiana solicited information from project managers in the field about what they were doing and then Frankensteined their slapdash responses into articles.
at frankenstein, v.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 161: ‘I’m so sorry, Georgiana. He’s a fuckboy’ .
at fuck boy (n.) under fuck, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 20: Georgiana had [. . .] an enormous, goofy, childlike, and mortifying crush. His name was Brady .
at goofy, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 66: Cord [...] grabbed one of the big, gross calamari pieces with all the frilly legs.
at gross, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 240: ‘I’ve had my head up my ass. I’ve been a terrible daughter. I hope my mom will forgive me,’ she confessed quietly.
at have one’s head up one’s arse (v.) under head, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 186: Archie used to give his fiancée’s sister hickeys out by the gazebo .
at hickey, n.2
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 5: Sasha discovered [...] a one-hitter with an old yellow lighter hidden in the back of a drawer.
at one-hitter (n.) under hit, n.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 201: ‘Did you sleep at a dude’s?’ Cord asked. ‘Did you hook up with someone?’.
at hook up (with), v.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 66: C]ouples massages are just weird. I think they’re designed so that people who hate each other can do something romantic and not talk.’ ‘Hot take, okay’.
at hot take (n.) under hot, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 87: ‘If I were so smart, I wouldn’t have missed Poppy and Hatcher’s childhood to make money for a bank that kicked me to the curb’.
at kick to the curb (v.) under kick, v.1
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 109: [T]he Clintons and Obamas had spent summers in houses on their property. He was next-level rich.
at next-level, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 105: The family was lousy with property.
at lousy with (adj.) under lousy, adj.
[US] J. Jackson Pineapple Street 105: [A] place that felt like an expensive mash-up of Antiques Roadshow and Hoarders.
at mash-up, n.
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