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[US] S. King Christine 120: Would I trade it? Man, does a bear shit in the woods?
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] S. King Christine 356: Make like a tree and leave, Jimmy, okay?
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] S. King Christine 332: Who gives a tin shit?
at not give a shit, v.
[US] S. King Christine 37: ‘Oh yeah, I got some neighbours straight out of the old AB.’ ‘What’s that?’ I asked him. ‘The Asshole Brigade, son.’.
at A.B., n.
[US] S. King Christine 73: I went through the same song and dance.
at song and dance, n.1
[US] S. King Christine 353: It meant he would have to put Jimmy Sykes in charge [...] and Jimmy didn’t know his ass from ice cream.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[US] S. King Christine 151: I never seen anyone go at fixing a car up the crazy-ass way he is. Is it a joke? A game?
at crazy-ass, adj.
[US] S. King Christine 39: No kilometres in little red numbers underneath; when this babe had rolled off the assembly line.
at babe, n.
[US] S. King Christine 482: A pair of crutches with wet snow on them can turn into ice-skates. ‘You really operate those babies,’ Arnie said.
at baby, n.
[US] S. King Christine 490: They caught me dead-bang. Bad shit.
at bad shit, n.2
[US] S. King Christine 490: They caught me dead-bang.
at dead-bang, adv.
[US] S. King Christine 484: If she thinks I’m going to go off to Pitt or Horlicks or Rutgers and put on a freshman beanie and go boola-boola at the home football games, she’s out of her mind.
at beanie, n.1
[US] S. King Christine 88: Gilman just beat the living shit out of Arnie.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] S. King Christine 97: When she was hardly more than a baby – three, maybe – I scared the bejesus out of her with a Jack-in-the-box.
at scare the bejazus out of (v.) under bejazus, n.
[US] S. King Christine 133: ‘Get bent,’ he said, and hung up.
at get bent! (excl.) under bent, adj.
[US] S. King Christine 46: His middle finger went up as he flipped the kid the bird.
at flip a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[US] S. King Christine 93: That place bites the root anyway.
at bite the root (v.) under bite, v.
[US] S. King Christine 172: Making you feel like you’re going to simultaneously blow lunch and shit your pants!
at blow lunch (v.) under blow, v.1
[US] S. King Christine 148: Take your bad jokes and get lost, kid. Blow.
at blow!, excl.2
[US] S. King Christine 358: The Fury’s bod, which had an advanced state case of cancer when the kid brought it in, now looks cherry.
at bod, n.
[US] S. King Christine 10: It’s got a Hurst gearbox, a supercharger, and it can boil the road in first gear.
at boil, v.
[US] S. King Christine 528: ‘You’re such a boogersnot,’ she said.
at boogersnot (n.) under booger, n.1
[US] S. King Christine 246: They had come to do a little dirty boogie on Arnie Cunningham’s Plymouth.
at boogie, n.4
[US] S. King Christine 284: It was hard work, hitching rides, once you got out in the boonies.
at boonies, n.
[US] S. King Christine 344: If he could have been sorry for anyone, it would have been for the little shit-for-brains freshman.
at shit-for-brains, adj.
[US] S. King Christine 167: ‘Did you bring your lunch?’ ‘Yeah, brown-bagging it.’.
at brownbag, v.
[US] S. King Christine 67: ‘Bug out, Denis,’ Arnie said.
at bug out, v.1
[US] S. King Christine 403: Big bull queers in the prison yard looking for fresh meat.
at bull, n.1
[US] S. King Christine 20: They were ready to take part in an all-night bull-session on the space programme.
at bull session, n.
[US] S. King Christine 2: A pretty ‘out’ group themselves in a burg like Libertyville.
at burg, n.1
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