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[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 318: We’ll be for yo like a nigrah for a watermelon.
at like a..., phr.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 278: All dames are balls busters.
at ball-buster, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 273: I’ve been married twice, both times tossed out on first base.
at first base, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 296: That’s my girl, snippy and big-mouthed.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 11: He had been sleeping, curled up around his twine-tied bindle.
at bindle, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 342: You know damn well the biggest boddle[sic]-grabbers are my best people.
at boodle, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 369: Maybe I’d have been better off as a twenty year top sarge, drilling redneck kids and burrheads at Fort Ord.
at burrhead, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 3497: She’s all busted up, too.
at busted, adj.1
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 357: The Department of Justice identified him as capo de capo, boss of the bosses.
at capo, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 326: They are still wheelmen in the logging section, but now they drive cats.
at cat, n.6
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 226: Some tin-horn cheapy [...] got gunned down.
at cheapie, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 378: In a democratic organization we don’t ask if they [...] ever shook down a chow mein parlor.
at chow mein parlor, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 280: He’s been sent by the cookie pushers in the State Department.
at cookie-pusher, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 279: Spouting the same old corn about the workers.
at corn, n.2
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 272: ‘Cut the crackle,’ said Mike.
at crackle, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 270: Martin, meet Davey Wasserman, the greatest crapshooter the paratroopers ever put into the field.
at crap shooter (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 225: Those local firms are fancy dans ... they represent Ford and General Motors.
at fancy Dan, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 321: Ol’ Dick was at his best, told some grand darky stories.
at darkie, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 212: If they ever did get together, she’d tell Mike, ‘Drop out, we’re making a baby’.
at drop out, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 251: I’m not sitting on my duff.
at duff, n.2
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 374: All the damn snooty limeys with their duked up, posh guests.
at duked out, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 229: I know the fucking the average working joe gets from his fat cat union international.
at fucking, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 274: Be right down, you goldbrick. Order me a double Chivas Regal.
at goldbrick, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 271: ‘To all dead friends, good paratroopers all,’ said Mike, lifting his glass. Davey nodded. ‘Cocksmen, goofoffs, pals.’.
at goof-off, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 384: I saw we had to be as hardnutted as industry.
at hard nut, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 249: Your own boys don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell against professional muscle.
at not have a snowball’s chance (in hell) under hell, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 347: Terry referred to Julia as ‘that high-assed society cunt’.
at high-ass (adj.) under high, adj.1
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 211: The hopped-up car was a little difficult to handle.
at hopped (up), adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 317: You have done a bangup job of bringing back the balls and gisum to the DWU.
at jism, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 212: In his Joe College sports cap and white coveralls, driving this fancy junkpile.
at junker, n.
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