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[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 40: I’ll be right back in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 37: DeDe will shit a brick!
at shit a brick, v.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 136: Mrs Madrigal had come to her table with a basket of Alice B. Toklas brownies.
at Alice B. Toklas (brownie), n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 127: The last thing we need is one of those tight-assed dinosaurs stumbling in here ripped to the tits.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 102: I’m as queer as a three-dollar bill.
at ...a three-dollar bill under queer as..., adj.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 37: I hauled ass to get here.
at haul ass, v.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 187: What the hell does she need with some half-assed lover who’s got the hots for tile bathrooms.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 197: ‘Attaboy!’ said Herbert Tolliver.
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 124: We get up at some godawful hour of the morning.
at God-awful, adj.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 56: All the old mossbacks would [...] say how nice it was to know that there were still some decent, upstanding young men left.
at moss-back, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 89: His son-in-law put the badmouth on me, and the old man tossed me out on my can.
at put the bad mouth on (v.) under badmouth, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 31: I don’t get a big bang out of this, you know. It doesn’t thrill me.
at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 35: Edgar, you old bastard, why aren’t you home pruning the rosebuds?
at old bastard (n.) under bastard, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 41: The acid, the music, the sex, the Avalon, the Family Dog, the Human Be-in.
at be-in, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 26: Garbage [...] is very revealing. It beats the shit out of tarot cards.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 32: A collage of Playgirl beefcake photos.
at beefcake (n.) under beef, n.1
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 152: The Afro-aphrodisia of the Reverend Willy Sessums, bojangling the bejeezus out of Third World Socialism.
at bejazus, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 100: A lot of guys who come here are gay . . . or at least bi.
at bi, adj.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 108: This couple waltzed in and took a seat in the middle of a heavy biker contingent.
at biker, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 249: Did he flip her the bird again?
at flip a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 202: Off to the body shops!
at body shop, n.1
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 193: We’ll just boogie on down to The Palms, sip Blue Moons in a window seat.
at boogie, v.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 124: We get up at some godawful hour of the morning to jog through the boonies.
at boonies, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 63: A girl like that was gettin’ down . . . boogying and boozing.
at boozing, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 65: I’m leaving. Don’t get your bowels in an uproar.
at don’t get your bowels in an uproar under bowels, n.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 182: Boy! [...] Brian showed me what the landlady grows in the garden.
at boy!, excl.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 13: I feel like a little heavy bumping. Wanna hit the disco?
at bump, v.1
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 12: If you can’t deal, with your own sexuality, hon, you’re gonna get screwed but good in this town.
at but good, phr.
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 29: Tell Beauchamp to hustle his butt up here on the double.
at butt, n.1
[US] A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 120: I keep forgetting you’re an old buzzard.
at buzzard, n.
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