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[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 6: What an a-hole.
at a-hole, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 20: They sent some Mexican ape from Security to [...] hustle me out of the building.
at ape, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 72: Some smart-ass kid brings in the video.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 285: It’s cold as a well-digger’s ass out here.
at ...a grave-digger’s arse under cold as..., adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 95: Get busy on your homework, wiseass.
at wise-ass, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 133: I had a god-awful nightmare.
at God-awful, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 104: Don’t lose your senses, boy. White pussy is bad medicine.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 235: I could inhale a whole box of those bad boys [i.e. doughnuts].
at bad boy, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 270: What colossal balls, marveled Honey.
at balls, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 68: Not all guys thought she was a basket case.
at basket case (n.) under basket, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 82: Logistically it would be [...] a bear. [...] I don’t do break-ins.
at bear, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 266: I tole you to beat it!
at beat it, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 104: What if the dead tourist had bigshot kin.
at big-shot, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 285: What are you goony birds talkin’ about?
at goony-bird, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 78: We’re poisoning the whole blessed planet.
at blessed, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 9: The pay blew, too: minimum wage, plus four bucks for every lead.
at blow, v.2
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 295: Boca raton supposedly had more telephone boiler rooms than calcutta.
at boiler-room (n.) under boiler, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 167: Her speech had bombed and now the whole plan seemed depressingly misguided.
at bomb, v.2
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 146: He was country to the bone.
at to the bone (adv.) under bone, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 155: Nice job, champ [...] You T-boned a garbage truck.
at T-bone, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 286: Don’t die on me, you big bonehead.
at bonehead, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 123: Meanwhile your bonehead husband and his fake-Fonda lady friend just carried their bags into a mobile home.
at boneheaded, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 7: The man squeezed my boob.
at boob, n.3
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 235: I wouldn’t last very long out here in the boonies.
at boonies, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 294: If you’re ever passing through Zolfo Springs [...] I’ll cut you a break on a pan gasket.
at give someone/something a break (v.) under break, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 86: Sammy Tigertail was depressed to think that this bubblehead would soon be a schoolteacher.
at bubblehead, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 26: ‘How much does she weigh?’ ‘A buck forty.’.
at buck, n.3
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 232: I’ve seen her in action, bucko.
at bucko, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 161: I owe you, bud.
at bud, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 159: The woman from the trailer park [...] stood spritzing her arms with bug juice.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
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