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[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 3: I know as sure as God made daisies that it spells ‘Larry and I’ or just plain ‘Larry’.
at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 9: ‘The ax,’ I said. ‘I gave him the ax, Dad. Finished.’ [Ibid.] 42: That’s the way the cookie crumbles, baby. You thought you were giving him the ax, but it turned out the other way around.
at axe, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: ‘Boy – she’s my type,’ said Wally. ‘A real B.B stacker.’ That irked me. It was so typical. Those surfing jocks just refuse to give me female status. When they see a talent like Abby their glands go berserk. It never occurs to them that I am a woman, charged with the same emotions and desires that would put a Monroe to shame. I’m just the Gidget.
at BB stacker, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: ‘You really want to try those shoots? Twenty feet high, I hear. You’ll be dying there, for God’s sake.’ ‘No beads,’ I told him. ‘I can take care of myself.’.
at no beads, phr.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 20: You look so – so – Betty Coed.
at betty coed, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 109: She acted so superior. So snooty. So big-shot.
at big-shot, adv.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: ‘And I’m going to Hawaii,’ said Wally. ‘Bitchen!’.
at bitchin!, excl.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: All I want is to get into that bitchen Makaha surf.
at bitching, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 50: What I had interpreted as a love light had merely been a gasser on the blink.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 109: Your daughter, Professor, has been around the block – not once – but many times.
at go around the block (v.) under block, n.8
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 96: I’m the world’s most giant blockhead.
at blockhead, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 50: Then the first real boomers came on and we turned our boards.
at boomer, n.4
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 43: She already gave me that bromide – and it didn’t fizzle.
at bromide, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 6: It was one of those Southern Cal days for which only one word seems adequate for [...] let’s just say it was all time.
at Cal, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 48: They looked real classic in the physical department.
at classic, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 3: ‘Cool me in, young lady,’ he said quite sarcastically. ‘Cool me in.’ I hate it when he uses the lingo.
at cool in (v.) under cool, v.2
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 15: He’s just about the craziest in folk songs [...] He’s real big time.
at crazy, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 55: He’s absolutely creamy.
at creamy, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 30: As we drove up to the main building, out stepped this manager doll.
at doll, n.1
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 18: It’s grim enough if you yourself feel like Endsville.
at Endsville, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 48: I [...] gorged myself on a king-size Hawaiian breakfast complete with papaya and gobs of Puma jam.
at gob, n.3
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 66: He made a goofy face.
at goofy, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 63: He was full of gook, that Pete.
at gook, n.4
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 90: That was one of those gooky misunderstandings.
at gooky, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 58: What’s eating you? [...] You’re grouchy.
at grouchy, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 2: It bugs me no end that he can’t understand what a real sterling group the Go-Heads of Malibu are.
at -head, sfx
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 4: What I do believe is that he’s got the hots for me.
at hots, the, n.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 48: He looked like the cleanest guy going and his physique was keeno.
at keeno, adj.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 25: I kid you not.
at I kid you not under kid, v.
[US] F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: I don’t give a you-know-what.
at you know what, n.
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