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Slam the Big Door choose

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[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 85: That’s the way we want to be, It’s the only way to ball it, cutie, the only way to keep the moss off the rock.
at ball it, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 6: Eat well [...] Be my guest.
at be my guest, phr.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 171: Let every man belly up to the bar and order his own poison.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 57: Should Twin Keys fall through, the results of the four careful years of practice would be bitched.
at bitched (up) (adj.) under bitch, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 188: She had a marriage which went blah.
at go blah (v.) under blah, adj.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 163: The whole key is buzzing. People are saying Troy put the slug on her.
at buzz, v.1
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 172: Chinch bugs, red bugs.
at chinch, n.1
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 56: Rob Raines felt his face grow hot. A thing like that [...] could cook you for good.
at cook, v.1
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 56: He’d cut himself in on a lot of pieces of somethin’ else.
at cut in, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 159: Then you’re dead for sleep. What good are you?
at dead for (adj.) under dead, adj.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 52: You too dog-lazy to han’ me that bottle, J.C.?
at dog, adv.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 85: Those old poops [...] must’ve got a real earful.
at get an earful (v.) under earful, n.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 187: We have been having big fat arguments about what the surprise is.
at fat, adj.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 123: I’m not flipping you a four-bit-piece to stop singing.
at flip, v.2
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 97: Her face was puffy with sleep. [...] She yawned widely and said, ‘Wow! I folded.’.
at fold, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 122: I’m fresh out of alternatives.
at fresh out (of), phr.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 82: ‘What makes?’ he asked.
at what gives? under give, v.3
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 85: I’d sent Birdy the hell away.
at hell, the, phr.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 103: Most people come here act a little trembly, like I’d bite hell out of them. [Ibid.] 182: I wanted to pick him up [...] and beat the living hell out of him.
at beat (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 62: All of a sudden you’re type-cast [...] Young woman getting unhitched.
at hitched, adj.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 64: Troy has the idea a few more hundred thousand dollars will get it over the hump.
at over the hump under hump, n.1
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 85: ‘You know what you can buy now? Safety belts for bar stools. Isn’t that a jazz?’ ‘Hilarious.’.
at jazz, n.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 95: They make out like they’re just old cracker boys, but they’re made of money.
at make out (like), v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 172: Come to this retirement paradise, all you senior citizens. (This seems more palatable than ‘oldsters’).
at oldster, n.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 85: Those old poops that live there must’ve got a real earful that night.
at poop, n.3
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 178: Okay, you wrecker guys! Hook up and roll ’em!
at roll, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 111: I got him hosed off and sacked out.
at sacked out (adj.) under sack, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 182: You’re pretty damn smart. You sold her the whole story [...] You destroyed her love for me.
at sell, v.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 63: You were all sewed up so completely you wouldn’t have been aware of a pass.
at sewed up, adj.
[US] J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 131: ‘You need that shrinker.’ ‘Anybody that doesn’t agree with you is sick?’.
at shrink, n.1
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