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[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 20: If we got caught, the State Board would shit a brick.
at shit a brick, v.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 111: Those caps of acid he swallowed.
at acid, n.1
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 7: The drink was grapefruit juice blended half and half with lab alky.
at alky, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 69: Make me go all to pieces.
at all to pieces, adj.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 95: I got so tired of all those fays and gays jammin’ each other [...] Too much back-door integration for me.
at back-door, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 155: It’s pea-brains like you that make some bone-heap the favorite!
at bag of bones, n.1
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 53: She remained after class [...] shyly apologizing for her presence in what she forthrightly called ‘dumbbell English’.
at dumb-bell, adj.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 61: The whole bit. Suburbia. The picture-window view of the neighbors’ adultery.
at whole bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 128: Nothing to do but hope for the best right now and get busy putting the bite on some other modeling school.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 39: In Ward A, man. That’s for the boss nuts, the real experts.
at boss, adj.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 83: He looked the type. A dick, all right.
at dick, n.1
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 70: Until you said that, I thought you’d been screwing the dog on this project.
at fuck the dog (and sell the pups) (v.) under dog, n.2
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 3: You want to fix up this afternoon?
at fix up, v.2
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 42: An increased opportunity to flunk this troublemaker.
at flunk, v.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 125: It occurred to me you might think you were playing me for a sucker, and I don’t buy that.
at play for a sucker (v.) under play for, v.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 84: Pete and I were old undergrad frat brothers.
at frat, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 77: Poor old gasbag.
at gasbag, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 11: You think it’s God, but it’s just a hard-on.
at hard-on, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 93: You gonna holler this next set?
at holler, v.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 144: You’re flipping, and I should have had the guts to lay it on you straight when it first started.
at lay it on, v.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 3: You make it on pot, don’t you?
at make it, v.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 143: The Messiah bit is wearing thin [...] All you had was an acid jag!
at jag, n.1
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 95: I got so tired of all those fays and gays jammin’ each other.
at jam, v.4
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 155: Just like you cheer for this big jig shovin’ a ball through a hoop!
at jig, n.4
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 88: ‘Want a lame?’ asked Jake. ‘No thanks. I don’t smoke.’.
at lame, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 42: Harry’s task was to keep them liquored up whenever possible.
at liquored (up), adj.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 87: Drinking was no escape for him; he didn’t dig lushing.
at lushing, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 11: One of the med students was over him, listening with a stethoscope.
at med, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 95: I got so tired of all those fays and gays jammin’ each other.
at ofay, n.
[US] K. Kolb Getting Straight 127: You pea-brained numbskull.
at peabrained (adj.) under peabrain, n.
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