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Lucky You choose

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[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 351: Nor did he give two shits whether they carried him back to Miami or straight to Raiford prison.
at not give a shit, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 159: Nice work, ace.
at ace, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 20: It don’t add up.
at add up, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 314: ‘I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.’ ‘And then some,’ Mary Andrea said, under her breath.
at and then some!, excl.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 28: Millionaires, they don’t do b-and-e’s!
at b and e, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 142: He asked Champ Powell what he would do if it was his wife fooling around with another man.
at fool around, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 202: [He] hoped the pesky con artist was watching.
at con-artist, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 51: This sorry-ass excuse for a life.
at sorry-ass, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 184: The chief judge had been on Arthur Battenkill’s ass about clearing the case backlog.
at on someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 149: Bode could be a hardass too, but he was more of a thinker.
at hard-ass, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 141: The Dolphins got their asses kicked.
at kick ass, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 259: But I haven’t got to fuck her yet. Not even a b.j.
at b.j., n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 194: Maybe Chub had bailed.
at bail, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 187: Steel balls. I give him that.
at brass balls, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 114: JoLayne figured nobody would be ballsy enough to go there three times in a row.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 160: Bode Gazzer was a basket case; any second he expected the blue flash of police lights.
at basket case (n.) under basket, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 228: It was a human bean [...] A nigger is what it looked like.
at bean, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 166: It’s fine and dandy for him to roust a couple beaners for eight lousy bucks.
at beaner, n.3
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 131: Beats the hell outta me.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 60: You’re lookin’ good, big guy.
at big guy (n.) under big, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 95: Ever since he’d started the workout binge, he’d become moody and rough.
at binge, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 100: ‘And last but not least—’ ‘I’m awfully white,’ Krome said. ‘Bingo.’.
at bingo!, excl.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 305: He’d had to play hardball with those blockhead wholesalers back in Wisconsin.
at blockhead, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 134: He didn’t want to blow a shot at free press coverage.
at blow, v.2
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 74: He became known throughout the county as a reliable supplier of bootleg wheelchair emblems.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 120: The girl chatted up all her customers. ‘Bull,’ Chubb said. ‘See how she looks at me?’.
at bull!, excl.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 280: Maybe I will bum along.
at bum, v.3
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 214: I’ll bet that cute little waitress is freezing her buns in those shorts.
at buns, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 19: He got up to turn on the TV. Nothing happened. ‘This busted or what?’.
at busted, adj.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Lucky You 77: Bode complained that his beer buzz was wearing off, so Chub opened a bottle of cheap vodka.
at buzz, n.
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