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[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 182: I’m no apple Indian — red outside and white underneath.
at apple, n.1
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 286: Angus lost his ass in a taco franchise.
at lose one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 154: Loud and cocky, he cried out, ‘Attabaybee!’.
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 102: Bandits wouldn’t tum a dime if they didn’t rattle and roll [HDAS].
at bandit, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 205: Why do you think she’s called Tiffany? Pure class. Twenty-four carat.
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 115: A parking lot full of pickups, Cadillacs, and El Caminos (‘cowboy cadillacs’).
at cowboy cadillac (n.) under cowboy, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 205: You think I like crapping around with tweeties?
at crap around (v.) under crap, v.2
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 107: Even grumpy fuddy-dud like it.
at fuddy-duddy, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 212: Oregonians, also known as ‘Webfeet.’.
at web-foot, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 287: He fried out on acid. Then he found Jesus.
at fry, v.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 71: The engine turned hard, then started, and I goosed it pretty good.
at goose, v.3
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 329: I ate a grinder — elsewhere called a hero, hoagie, poorboy, submarine, sub, torpedo, Italian.
at grinder, n.1
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 99: We gotta show the brothers they can do more than hang cool like meat in a locker.
at hang (out) cool (v.) under hang out, v.1
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 96: ‘Would anybody stop a black man if he wanted a drink in here?’ ‘I’ll be go to hell.’.
at I’ll be go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 235: That first jump off Pitt must have been hellacious.
at hellacious, adj.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 142: Texans call them ‘diggers’. [...] poor whites ate them with greens and cornbread during the Depression and called them ‘hoover hogs’ or ‘Texas turkeys’ [...] even now, poor blacks, calling them just ‘dillas,’ barbeque the soft meat.
at hoover hog (n.) under hoover, adj.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 101: Whiteys [...] don’t mind a little black poontang now and then. That’s their contribution to equality — hump a nigger.
at hump, v.1
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 390: Don’t tell an Islander that, or he’ll knock you into a cocked hat.
at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 365: You Limeys just kill me.
at limey, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 101: Whiteys [...] don’t mind a little black poontang now and then.
at poontang, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 122: They don’t live in a rat-ass ghetto.
at rat-assed (adj.) under rat, n.1
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 314: The Jehovah’s Witnesses knock on the door and want to heal me. I tell them, ‘shit on this healing!’.
at shit on…! (excl.) under shit, v.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 191: I heard girls at the Big Four are getting twenty-five simoleons for a straight.
at simoleon, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 27: I’d love to do that, but I’d be scared spitless.
at scared spitless (adj.) under spitless, adj.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 191: I heard girls at the Big Four are getting twenty-five simoleons for a straight.
at straight, n.2
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 142: Texans call them ‘diggers’. [...] poor whites ate them with greens and cornbread during the Depression and called them ‘hoover hogs’ or ‘Texas turkeys’ [...] even now, poor blacks, calling them just ‘dillas,’ barbeque the soft meat.
at Texas turkey (n.) under Texas, adj.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 293: ‘Who’s the creep in my room?’ ‘The jigaboo?’ ‘No, Tonto.’.
at Tonto, n.
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 329: I ate a grinder — elsewhere called a hero, hoagie, poorboy, submarine, sub, torpedo, Italian.
at torpedo, n.2
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 50: This boy wouldn’t sleep up here amongst the whangdoodles withouten his peace of mind.
at whangdoodle, n.1
[US] ‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 111: Tie on with these and you’ll get zanged out of the window like in a slingshot.
at zing, v.
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