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[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 80: ‘[I]f you want to get drunk in a hurry, we’ll get drunk in a hurry. We can chug-a-lug’.
at chug-a-lug, v.
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 83: ‘Let’s all have a toast to my wife’s new abil . . . abil . . . ability as a boozer’.
at boozer, n.
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 89: ‘He showed me his bankbook once [...] That guy’s well fixed’.
at fixed, adj.1
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 89: ‘Them Fish People, what a pair they are!’ Bat nodded. ‘They’re honeys all right’.
at honey, n.1
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 90: ‘Fidler, I think you’ve got the hots for that freak’.
at hots, the, n.
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 65: Emmy was a carnival dancer and had never claimed to be anything else [...] But the disturbing factor was that he had not been thinking of her as a carney girl or a kootch broad.
at kootch broad (n.) under kootch, n.
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 79: [of a carnival wrestler] ‘I don’t think you’re funny.’ ‘You’re a musclehead. You can’t think’.
at musclehead (n.) under muscle, n.
[US] J. Sanders Freak Show 88: “One of the roughies in our trailer took off [...] two nights ago.
at roughie, n.1
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