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[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 52: A bare-chested young man wearing an Aussie hat strolled by.
at Aussie, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 101: I started [...] counseling, handling the telephones, trying to get to kids in trouble, especially the bad trippers.
at bad trip (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 138: The average Kansan is not a dumbbell.
at dumb-bell, n.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 177: Man came along, the arrogant boob, and invented the idea of his importance in God’s eye.
at boob, n.2
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 374: He was a fast little booger.
at booger, n.3
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 176: I had to bootleg it. That’s a sad commentary on bureaucracy.
at bootleg, v.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 103: We’re flat broke.
at flat broke, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 172: The very strapped – people on welfare.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 230: I felt singled out for my Chineseness, and I would get that Ching-Chong-Chinese thing.
at ching-chong, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 203: Give one of those kids a swat on the chops.
at chops, n.1
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 116: Jail ain’t cool.
at cool, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 150: Weeds are taking over. It’s a damn shame.
at damn, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 26: ‘Hot dang,’ someone says.
at hot damn!, excl.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 270: Bott was a grabber, a wheeler and dealer.
at wheeler-dealer, n.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 338: Since he was defeated four years ago Faubus has been head of Dogpatch, U.S.A., a kind of Ozark Disneyland, which has been a commercial success. [...] if he wins, they believe, one day the whole world will be Dogpatch and they will be free.
at dogpatch (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 101: I was a real acid head, dropping acid every day.
at drop, v.6
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 107: Rebels, freaks, drug heads, runaways.
at drughead (n.) under drug, n.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 144: Is that Chet Huntley barking instructions to a construction gang putting up a dude ranch?
at dude, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 220: This led some of the protesters to conclude that I was a member of the comission and an equally abominable establishment fink.
at fink, n.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 131: A frazzled young man with glazed eyes stumbled past me.
at frazzled, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 142: A highly decorated fellow who didn’t have any more room for fruit salad on his chest.
at fruit salad, n.1
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 178: Gee whiz, this is something you’ve just got to save.
at gee whiz!, excl.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 93: People who talk about brotherhood from their high-rise apartments expect this guy living in the nitty-gritty deteriorating neighborhood to take the rap for them.
at nitty-gritty, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 92: Wallace appealed to people because he spoke of gut issues.
at gut, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 203: An old shipbuilder or a plumber or a lumberjack – you’d call them a hardhat back in New York – will want to give one of those kids a swat on the chops.
at hard hat (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 370: She’d wait until I [...] was ready for bed and she would let me have it.
at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 116: So sisters and brothers get your guns, your friends, your fake id’s, your hideouts, your alternatives and your heads together.
at get one’s head together (v.) under head, n.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 279: Holy-cow-in-the-manger, you’da thought Earl Warren himself had thrown the book at ’em.
at holy cow! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 26: ‘Hot dang,’ someone says, ‘I’m still on the payroll.’.
at hot, adj.
[US] B. Moyers Listening to America 238: I’m really playing it straight.
at play it..., v.
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