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[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Up, Simba’ in Consider the Lobster 183: [G]oing up to her assigned room [...] and finding it already occupied by a nude male—’Naked as a jaybob. In his altogether. Starkers’—with only a washcloth over his privates.
at altogether, the, n.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart’ in Consider the Lobster 144: She was about four feet six and eighty-five pounds. She hit the hell out of the ball and never missed and never choked and had braces and pigtails that swung wildly around as she handed pros their asses.
at hand someone their ass (v.) under ass, n.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Up, Simba’ in Consider the Lobster 207: [T]he rest of the press corps has to stand in the back of the hall and try to help the slightly mad Economist guy cabbage breadsticks when nobody’s looking.
at cabbage, v.1
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Host’ in Consider the Lobster 289: [T]he president’s ridiculed for reading his Bible; priests are diddling kids left and right.
at diddle, v.1
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Host’ in Consider the Lobster 306: [D]iary surveys are notoriously iffy, since a lot of subjects neglect to fill out their diaries in real time [. . .] tending instead [...] to do them from memory.
at iffy, adj.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Up, Simba’ in Consider the Lobster 183: [G]oing up to her assigned room [...] and finding it already occupied by a nude male—’Naked as a jaybob. In his altogether. Starkers’—with only a washcloth over his privates.
at naked as a jaybird (adj.) under jaybird, n.1
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Up, Simba’ in Consider the Lobster 171: The Straight Talk Express’s driver is a leadfoot and the other drivers hate him.
at leadfoot, n.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Big Red Son’ in Consider the Lobster 14: [note] [A]t one point Trey orders Farrel, as Trey, to perform [. . .] and Farrel does, did, puts down the notebook and phone and dis, like, robes and dives right in.
at like, adv.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Host’ in Consider the Lobster 341: [C]ertain things it’s all but sure he’ll say on-air tonight, such as . . . that the original [O.J. Simpson] trial jury was ‘a collection of absolute nimrods’.
at nimrod, n.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Up, Simba’ in Consider the Lobster 159: [note] [Mike Murphy]’d be the one McCain staffer you’d just about give a nut to get three or four drinks into and then start probing.
at give a/one’s nut (v.) under nuts, n.2
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Authority and American Usage’ in Consider the Lobster 101: The cases of split infinitives and Hopefully are in fact often trotted out by dogmatic Descriptivists as evidence that all SWE usage rules are arbitrary and dumb.
at trot out (v.) under trot (out), v.
[US] D.F. Wallace ‘Host’ in Consider the Lobster 305: [T]his year they spend at least an hour a day attacking various government officials and their ‘spokesholes’ for failing to enforce immigration laws.
at spokeshole, n.
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