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The Blackboard Jungle choose

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[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 105: ‘You got a keen analytical mind.’ ‘Thank you,’ Rick said. ‘Don’t mensh it.’.
at mensh, v.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 175: He say, ‘You go to school, Pete?’ an’ I say you fuckin’ a right.
at fucking-A, adv.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 197: Or do you go for crime jargon, West? Is that your speed? You a heel and toe boy?
at heel-and-toe boy (n.) under heel-and-toe, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 297: Draggin’ yo’ ass in after the late bell, Chief. You settin’ a bad ’zample for the pupils here. [...] Wunt you draggin’ ass, man?
at drag ass, v.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 251: Is that how they fired people? Just a few visits from the Department Chairman and then blooie?
at blooey!, excl.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 197: You’re not a paper hanger, and you’re not a small fry pusher, and you’re not even a booster.
at booster, n.2
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 331: Oh, he’s a big bull artist, you know. He’s always talkin’ about his big deals, but he ain’t really got no big deals.
at bull artist (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 46: The boys filed in [...] still wondering what sort of a duck this new bird with the Butch haircut was.
at butch, n.1
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 260: And here’s to eagle-eye Stanley, whose observations were right on the button.
at on the button under button, n.1
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 176: It was okay for Miller to ride the teacher ’cause he was a card that way.
at card, n.2
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 223: Angry because he was behaving like a godamned adolescent ogling a cheesecake magazine.
at cheesecake, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 196: Or are you just all talk and no cojones?
at cojones, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 372: Are you still crapping about that show, Katz? [...] The term’ll be over in a few days, and he’s still talking about Christmas.
at crap, v.2
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 219: ‘You’re joking, but don’t you really like the name?’ ‘It’s a dandy,’ Rick said.
at dandy, n.2
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 236: Do you think O’Brien or Erin like being called micks or donkeys?
at donkey, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 59: Okay for us to drift now, chief?
at drift, v.1
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 197: You know what a dry run is, huh, boy?
at dry run (n.) under dry, adj.1
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 97: All because the poor bastard tried to cop a feel.
at cop a feel (v.) under feel, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 309: Lois Hammond was not of a mind to play footsie.
at play footsie(s) (v.) under footsie-footsie, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 175: So wat the fuck you think?
at what the fuck...?, phr.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 203: Boy, what a ball! Man, it gassed us, the happiest time, the most.
at gas, v.3
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 201: They looked at Edwards sitting at his desk [...] looked at his goddam goggles perched on his nose.
at goggles, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 93: For he was, in actuality, the renowned gunslick entering a strange town.
at gunslick (n.) under gun, n.1
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 98: Well, we’ll see about our good friend Daddy-oh, the tough guy.
at tough guy, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 197: Just keep your smart-guy language to yourself. [Ibid.] 225: You’ve got a nerve to ask that! [...] After your goddamn wise-guy remarks, and after the way you fouled up that lesson.
at wise-guy, adj.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 150: He tried it. A little at a time at first, a few hammy gestures.
at hammy, adj.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 180: If a girl uses that word, she knows damn well what she’s saying, and you can chalk up another roll in the hay.
at roll in the hay, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 196: You dig a high on smoke, boy?
at high, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 21: Solly Klein had been to Organizational Meetings before [...] And in his own words, they were all just so much horse manure.
at horse manure (n.) under horse, n.
[US] E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 295: He can’t read so hot, Mr Dadier.
at hot, adv.
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