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[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 348: The police were trotting now, yellow-fanged K-9 dogs at their heels.
at K-9, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 37: That man Klein wants me to cop a plea. Says he’s trying to save my life.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 144: He was our ace in the hole, our smoking gun.
at ace in the hole (n.) under ace, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 364: Florida’s nothing but an adman’s wet dream.
at ad, adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 237: García glanced at Bloodworth’s face in the window and mouthed three words: ‘Up your ass.’.
at up your arse!, excl.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 357: It’s black as a bear’s asshole and fulla bugs. Why the hell do you wanna go over there on a night like this?
at black as..., adj.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 119: It was bingo money that bankrolled Las Noches.
at bankroll, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 366: It’s not me, Barbie Doll, it’s progress. Your beef is with the Puerco Development.
at Barbie (Doll), n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 356: Keyes thought: This is going to be a beaut.
at beaut, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 325: If the bastard really had been alive, Keyes thought, he would have shown up. With bells on.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 29: He was [...] jolliest when Florida was crawling with snowbirds.
at snow bird, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 289: If you threw them all together you’d have the scariest nest of bizarros in the history of the planet Earth.
at bizarro, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 313: Fucker blasted me with a sawed-off.
at blast, v.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 324: A show about humorous TV bloopers came on.
at blooper, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 326: Hey, don’t look so blue.
at blue, adj.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 243: A headline that said: Tennis Buff Boffs Bomb Suspect.
at boff, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 259: Half the girls get boob jobs and butt tucks.
at boob job (n.) under boob, n.3
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 229: First we’re booted out the Bahamas – humiliating, but not calamitous.
at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 364: An object lesson for all those bootlicking shills and hustlers.
at bootlicking (adj.) under bootlick, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 124: Typically the letters would begin: ‘Dear Shit-for-Brains’.
at shit-for-brains, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 328: See, I had a nifty deal going here at the paper. The brass liked me.
at brass, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 12: Something broke while you were diddling around. News, they call it.
at break, v.2
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 164: Meaning you and your bucket-headed partner are on your way to Fox Hill Prison if you fuck with me.
at buckethead (n.) under bucket, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 236: Let me bum a cigarette.
at bum, v.3
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 316: High-school bands from Bumfuck, Iowa.
at Bumfuck, Egypt, n.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 201: He said I burned one of his sources [...] I didn’t know the guy was off-the-record.
at burn, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 315: A procession of grafters, con artists [...] bushwackers, rustlers.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 256: The heater’s busted.
at busted, adj.1
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 376: They actually wanted to say thanks for butting out.
at butt out, v.
[US] C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 375: He patted her on the butt.
at butt, n.1
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