2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 7: Friends told her: just eat a fucking cheeseburger already.at already, adv.
2024 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.
2024 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.
2024 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
2024 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.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 105: ‘Her maiden name is Poole. Jeanie Poole, no big whoop’.at big whoop! (excl.) under big, adj.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 26: She’d file her papers through the school server, and boom, she’d be a sophomore.at boom!, excl.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 43: [T]he staff is great. Especially Nancy, the anesthesiologist. We’re buds.at bud, n.1
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 7: The Girl Detective assured her aunt she’d be fine; it was just freshman-year burnout.at burnout, n.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 8: Shockingly, he bought it! [i.e. an idea for a paper].at buy, v.
2024 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
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 149: ‘I’m impressed by that chick director you have on board’.at chick, adj.
2024 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.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 14: I thought that’s where I’d be crashing until Matilda was back home.at crash (out), v.
2024 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
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 177: ‘The secret to zip ties is the little locking mechanisms in the little buckle doohickey’.at dohickey, n.1
2024 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
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 138: ‘I’m not okay. But I don’t want to dump on you’.at dump on, v.1
2024 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.
2024 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
2024 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.
2024 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.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 143: One more flip [through a file], however, and the Bear muttered, ‘Fuck me’.at fuck me!, excl.
2024 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.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 260: ‘I’m basically a glorified gopher until I find another job’.at gofer, n.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 109: As long as she had Wi-Fi, she was Gouda (that is to say, good).at gouda, n.
2024 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.
2024 D. Swierczynski California Bear 343: ‘How are we doing, ladies?’ Jeanie asked her youngest guests. ‘I’m Gucci,’ Matilda said.at gucci, adj.