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The Hollywood Girl choose

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[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 234: His first name is Teddy [...] Nice, ain’t it? Sounds a little bit of all right.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 31: The cute little baggage in ‘Get Your Girl’ and before that, in vode tab out in the alfalfa zone long enough to get herself kidnapped for a hat full of headlines.
at alfalfa, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 158: Come back to New York and marry me and we can be as happy as a couple of bugs in a rug.
at ...a bug in a rug under happy as..., adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 144: This is a real party. Everyone in their B.V.D.’s.
at B.V.D.s, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 202: The company was in the bag already for half a million dollars.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 100: This little bimbo had just been given fifty grand and a piece of blue ice that must have been eight karats.
at bimbo, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 19: Don’t those boogie femmes have funny shaped fannies?
at boogie, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 59: Did he burn when I showed him the contract! Said I would go to hell sure in Hollywood.
at burn, v.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 202: Goom bi, slaves – see you in the factory tomorrow.
at goom-bye, phr.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 171: I mean finis. Capoot.
at caput, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 235: Teddy’s got an international reputation as a chaser.
at chaser, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 223: I busted all my combies laughing.
at combie, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 18: The Fuzzy-Wuzzy... a creep joint in Harlem.
at creep joint, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 187: paul: Where d’you want the apples, Mr. Nebbick? director: Well for cripes – on the tree, sapadillo.
at for cripes’ sake!, excl.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 138: Seen Jimmy? Double damn!
at double-damn! (excl.) under double, adv.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 54: Do you think my heart is a revolving door [...] go lay an egg.
at go lay an egg! (excl.) under egg, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 106: Mike the Rat and Gyp the Gat.
at gat, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 21: We call it the Pan American because we’re always putting somebody in the grease.
at in the grease under grease, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 200: It will be some out of the way place where they specialize in horse opera.
at horse opera (n.) under horse, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 36: A sensational secret diary [...] all perfume and hot pants.
at hot pants, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 111: Gee, that’s hotsy.
at hotsy-totsy, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 15: I told him I was off the legit for a while.
at legit, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 15: I told him I was off the legit for a while and had a big letch for the movies.
at letch, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 57: I have a movie contract. Tomorrow I start making faces at the camera. I will be what they call a lens louse.
at lens louse (n.) under -louse, sfx
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 42: Of course he’s on the make and what of it, all men are.
at on the make under make, n.2
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 37: I am [...] what is technically known as a virgin although I have been most thoroughly and thrillingly mauled on many occasions.
at maul, v.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 83: My God do I have to be mauled and muzzled over by every man I go out with.
at muzzle, v.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 120: I can hear that guide on the rubberneck now. To your right, the palatial home of Dixie Dugan!
at rubberneck wagon (n.) under rubberneck, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 187: paul: Where d’you want the apples, Mr. Nebbick? director: Well for cripes – on the tree, sapadillo.
at sap, n.2
[US] J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 227: Give my love to all the rush hour sardines.
at sardine, n.
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