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All These Condemned choose

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[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 140: I might have been able to wriggle things around so as to save my own bacon.
at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 168: I nearly made a terrible booboo.
at boo-boo, n.4
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 133: I got up and clowned it, doing my Kid Jonah, the Boston Butcher Boy.
at clown (around) (v.) under clown, v.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 33: She put too many cookies in this layout. She’s living too high.
at cookie, n.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 118: She would make traditional bleating sounds for you, but with that same trace of corn in her voice.
at corn, n.2
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 138: And, damn her eyes, she’s picked that one thing to work on.
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 148: If I keep goofing off [...] I’m going to flub stuff, the way I messed up the timing yesterday meeting that train.
at goof off, v.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 130: Snicker and smirk. Now you take that Judy Jonah. Man, oh, man. Hot pants.
at hot pants, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 61: It was one very hot item indeed. The girl had all the dope.
at item, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 129: I phoned the garage and had them bring the white Jag around.
at Jag, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 141: The house full of lintheads who would talk too much.
at linthead, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 134: The big lunk just stared at me.
at lunk, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 169: He had to start leering at me in that way he has. I told him not to get messy. Honestly, he wants to get messy at the darnedest times. There’s never any buildup. He just looks at you and boom.
at get messy (v.) under messy, adj.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 182: You’ll find a nice clean counter and get behind it and put on a monkey hat and start making with the cheese on rye.
at monkey hat (n.) under monkey, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 29: Mavis came out of the bathroom [...] and took a fast knock at the Martini. ‘Go easy on that nitro, honey,’ I told her. ‘Last time you lost your sawdust.’.
at nitro, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 29: Mavis came out of the bathroom [...] and took a fast knock at the Martini. ‘Go easy on that nitro, honey,’ I told her. ‘Last time you lost your sawdust.’.
at lose one’s sawdust (v.) under sawdust, n.2
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 61: It was an article on Wilma [...] It was one of those snide jobs [...] Nothing libelous, but very, very tongue in cheek.
at snide, adj.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 13: I saw her foot [...] projecting from under the edge of a greasy tarp.
at tarp, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 135: Hit the tea and steal liquor.
at tea, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 135: There was one particularly nasty little scene when Wilma whonked Randy with a mallet.
at whonk, v.
[US] J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 60: Wilma gave me some yak on the phone [...] Something about saving money.
at yack, n.2
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