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[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 7: Friends told her: just eat a fucking cheeseburger already.
at already, adv.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 58: ‘[I]f Dixon’s cooperating, then he sure as Shinola ain’t cooperating for free’.
at sure as shinola under sure as..., phr.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 40: I had to go take care of something [...] [o]therwise the wife would be up my ass all day.”.
at be up someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 14: ‘I thought we’d kick back for a few days. What better way to make plans for the future than to relax’.
at kick back, v.2
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 23: ‘Let’s go get hammered,’ Hightower said. At this point [...] Jack was pretty sure Hightower was as baked as a potato.
at baked, adj.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 105: ‘Her maiden name is Poole. Jeanie Poole, no big whoop’.
at big whoop! (excl.) under big, adj.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 26: She’d file her papers through the school server, and boom, she’d be a sophomore.
at boom!, excl.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 43: [T]he staff is great. Especially Nancy, the anesthesiologist. We’re buds.
at bud, n.1
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 7: The Girl Detective assured her aunt she’d be fine; it was just freshman-year burnout.
at burnout, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 8: Shockingly, he bought it! [i.e. an idea for a paper].
at buy, v.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 260: Jack wasn’t looking forward to the hour drive out to Ventura County in this tin can.
at tin-can, n.2
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 149: ‘I’m impressed by that chick director you have on board’.
at chick, adj.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 42: Violet had come through for her — dropping stuff off at her aunt and uncle’s apartment.
at come through, v.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 14: I thought that’s where I’d be crashing until Matilda was back home.
at crash (out), v.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 33: [H]is car — a hardtop ’78 Plymouth ’Cuda.
at ’Cuda, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 55: Hightower seemed genuinely dickhurt. ‘After all I’ve done, you can’t even do me the courtesy of hearing me out?’.
at dick-hurt (adj.) under dick, n.1
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 177: ‘The secret to zip ties is the little locking mechanisms in the little buckle doohickey’.
at dohickey, n.1
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 177: ‘I feel less foolish about him getting the drop on me. Because he got the drop on you awfully quick too’.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 138: ‘I’m not okay. But I don’t want to dump on you’.
at dump on, v.1
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 57: ‘Some fancy-pants documentary chick just signed a deal to write and direct a streaming series about the California Bear’.
at fancy pants, adj.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 138: The pained expression on Aunt Reese’s face made the Girl Detective regret being so flip.
at flip, adj.1
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 279: He’d long assumed it was a kind of flophouse for coked-up executives to impress young ingenues.
at flophouse, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 57: ‘If we play this right, we could make a fuck ton of money’.
at fuck ton (n.) under fuck, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 143: One more flip [through a file], however, and the Bear muttered, ‘Fuck me’.
at fuck me!, excl.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 23: ‘Life will always find a way to fuck you’.
at fuck, v.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 347: ‘I was supposed to meet a friend, but he ghosted on me — a meeting ran late or something’.
at ghost, v.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 260: ‘I’m basically a glorified gopher until I find another job’.
at gofer, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 109: As long as she had Wi-Fi, she was Gouda (that is to say, good).
at gouda, n.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 23: Jack, you’ve just been sprung from the Gray Bar Hotel! When’s the last time you had a drink?
at graybar hotel (n.) under gray, adj.
[US] D. Swierczynski California Bear 343: ‘How are we doing, ladies?’ Jeanie asked her youngest guests. ‘I’m Gucci,’ Matilda said.
at gucci, adj.
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