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[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 30: We drove through an endless sea of new condominiums put up by fast-buck artists.
at fast-buck artist (n.) under fast-buck, adj.
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 181: That’s the biggest crock I’ve ever heard.
at crock, n.1
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 173: What’s doing?
at what’s doing?, phr.
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 175: A group of kooks I never heard of.
at kook, n.
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 159: Sometimes she was [...] the mother and hausfrau, at other times the sex bomb.
at sex-bomb (n.) under sex, n.
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 163: I don’t have suckers to squeeze at seventy-five dollars a throw for a head shrink.
at head-shrinker (n.) under shrink, n.1
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 145: Why don’t they quit their crummy jobs [...] and get sane so they won’t need their heads shrunk?
at shrink someone’s head (v.) under shrink, n.1
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 156: I hoped she was off the shrink kick. [Ibid.] 157: I can’t take any more shrinking tonight.
at shrink, n.1
[US] J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 209: If the administration thinks about zapping you, they’ll have to worry about how it will look on paper.
at zap, v.
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