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Mine Enemy Grows Older choose

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[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 28: I run myself bare-assed keeping those hounds in trim.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 72: She had [...] become a complete mother. A mother from ’way back.
at way back, phr.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 26: On my left, there lived an altogether ball-less wonder [...] He was pop-eyed and froggy-faced.
at ball-less (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 80: I suppose Irving had blabbed to them about my job.
at blab, v.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 71: A smiling nurse, who had probably seen innumerable movies of such buckeye situations, held up a small bundle for my inspection.
at buckeye, adj.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 57: We decided to try our luck in the nearby metropolis of Syracuse [...] Julian and I were going alone, at first, to case the joint.
at case the joint (v.) under case, v.1
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 21: I had run myself sick and breathless trying to chisel the thirty dollars that I needed for his fee.
at chisel, v.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 141: A friend of mine told me about the Moreno Clinic. [...] This place wasn’t a drug-cleaning joint at all. It handled only genuine cuckoos.
at clean up, v.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 32: I’ll just have to make it cold.
at cold, adv.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 14: It comes to lisping Southern fairies who act like probationers from a booby hatch.
at fairy, n.1
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 88: Manny, down at the narcotics farm, would be enmeshed in his own private nightmares.
at farm, n.1
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 25: One flea bag in the West Forties, the Hotel Minnetonka, left a particularly lurid shadow in my memory.
at fleabag, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 20: He not only had one [a heart], but it was on the fritz.
at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 37: He turned out to be a Negro pansy [...] and his name was Gertrude.
at Gertie, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 75: He [...] shoved an eight-inch heater into his mouth.
at heater, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 98: Donald felt the evening was turning out a howling success.
at howling, adj.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 44: There’s no such thing as just joy-popping.
at joy-popping, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 47: I am instinctively leery of joining anything.
at leery, adj.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 99: Most of them were professional booze lice who crawled from one vernissage to the other.
at -louse, sfx
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 200: But Mirko didn’t seem to care too much for the ‘nutcrackers’ around the place.
at nutcracker, n.2
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 45: He’s an old hophead [...] He used to hit the pipe.
at hit the pipe (v.) under pipe, n.1
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 44: We used to mix schmeck for Mike Malasino.
at schmeck, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 77: What do you mean Jews? [...] Am I going to put big schnozzles on them and earlocks, or what?
at schnozzle, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 22: My new-found friend knew another croaker who wrote scrip for junkies.
at scrip, n.2
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 77: I’m worried stiff.
at stiff, adv.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 74: I thought I had better douse this stink bomb before he loused up my act.
at stink bomb (n.) under stink, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 142: He was a cool stud and really had something on the ball.
at stud, n.
[US] A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 26: On my left, there lived an altogether ball-less wonder [...] He was called Wimpy.
at wimpy, adj.
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