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The Devil All the Time choose

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[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 73: ‘Maybe someone worth a shit will show up’.
at worth a shit under worth a..., phr.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 113: Fucking around on Carl was one thing [...] but working it for money was something else entirely.
at fuck about, v.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 186: [B]ut by then the smart-aleck bastard had shit his pants.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 206: [W]hat she really wanted [...] was to keep him dependent on her, tied to her apron strings, so he’d always have to kiss her ass.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 107: ‘The tight ass won’t hire no extra help’.
at tight-arse, n.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 141: ‘He’s been teasing Lenora, him and a couple of his candy-ass buddies’.
at candy-ass, adj.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 96: ‘I got enough people on my ass as it is’.
at on one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 185: She’d come home drunk the night before in one of her sad-ass moods.
at sad-ass, adj.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 58: [T]he conversation he’d had with the fat-ass landlord.
at fat-ass, adj.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 57: ‘Hell, man, what about kicking his ass? [...] Take a shovel to the bastard’s head’.
at kick someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 187: ‘Look, if you ain’t got the balls for it anymore, just say so’.
at balls, n.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 96: A couple of banged-up beaters sat in the parking lot.
at banged up, adj.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 96: A couple of banged-up beaters sat in the parking lot.
at beater, n.2
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 44: He’d grin at Willard [...] and blow off about how it [a weekly pay packet] barely covered the cost of a couple of nice cuts of meat for Sunday dinner,.
at blow, v.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 203: ‘[D]don’t you worry about that pus-gutted blowhard’.
at blowhard, n.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 292: That lawyer’s wife and her buck boyfriend went to prison.
at buck, adj.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 192: Carl looked around [...] ‘Shit, buddy, it’s just a dump’.
at buddy, n.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 46: ‘Shit, I’d bend that sweet little thing over, and I’d …’ ‘Ha! Bernie Hill said. ‘You ol’ dog, I bet you’ve already busted it open’.
at bust it open (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 101: [H]e had soon found out about the cook who had taken her cherry and the one-nighters with the pimple-faced punks.
at cherry, n.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 70: Hank reached [...] turned the radio off. The Reds were getting clobbered.
at clobber, v.2
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 96: ‘[D]on’t you let somebody walk in here and catch you looking at that damn cock book’.
at cock book (n.) under cock, adj.2
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 254: ‘I got no problem giving your old lady the cock, but let me get cleaned up first’.
at give someone the cock (v.) under cock, n.3
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 136: Matson liked to think of himself as the school cock-hound, was always bragging about the pussy he picked up.
at cock hound (n.) under cock, n.4
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 204: ‘[T]hat boy probably ain’t had nothing that good to eat in a coon’s age’.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 253: [H]e would have went home and knocked up some old cow.
at cow, n.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 101: [S]itting alone in that crummy apartment night after night.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 126: ‘I’d bet a dollar to a doughnut the goddamn chick will look just like you’.
at dollars to doughnuts under dollar, n.1
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 135: ‘Hell, you’re so damn ugly I’d have to put a sack over your head before I could get a hard-on’.
at double-bagger (n.) under double, adj.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 16: [A] Louisiana boy who wore a swamp rat’s foot around his neck to ward off slant-eyed bullets.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[US] D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 8: [S]he’d spread her legs and let them play stink finger with her snatch.
at play (at) stink-finger (v.) under stink-finger, n.
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