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[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 25 Sept. 14: Whether you have all your buttons [W&F].
at have all one’s buttons (on) (v.) under button, n.1
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 13 Mar. 22/4: His brother Billy was thrown by an outlaw bronco [DA].
at outlaw, adj.
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 3 Sept. X3: ‘Green Pastures’ copped the Pulitzer Prize [W&F].
at cop, v.
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 10 Aug. 8: [‘The book will have] a record-breaking sale.’ ‘Yes, unless the book turns out to be a dog’ [W&F].
at dog, n.2
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 31 Dec. 18: Dodeca, however, is fated to dramatize her author’s sado-maso scene.
at sado-maso, adj.
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 7 Dec. 56: He’s not a writer, he’s a nudge. On the phone twice a day asking how’s it going!
at nudge, n.1
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 16 July 30: 300-pound Leland, an intermittently brilliant schiz, is going berserk in the basement.
at schiz, n.
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 23 July 17: [He] is warned of a smackhead migration to his state.
at smack-head (n.) under smack, n.2
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 22 Sept. 18/1: Colorful white Southerners that Paul Hemphill eulogizes as the Good Old Boys are likely to be nobody but the same old all too familiar hateful-eyed, razor-backed, lynch-mob-prone, willfully backward, hysterically insecure but undeniably gritty peckerwoods [...] crackers [...] hoojers and swamp folks once thought to be the primary antagonists of Civil Rights [DARE].
at hoojah, n.
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. 16 Mar. 31: She has had a bad back, a bad psychoanalytic trip and miscellaneous medical tsouris.
at tsuris, n.
[US] N.Y. Times Book Rev. cited in Cong. Wkly Reports 1323: [This] is a ferociously reported book, a tribute to old-fashioned digging in an age when lots of reporters are content to blow steam on television talk shows.
at blow steam (v.) under steam, n.
[US] N.Y. Rev. July 16: The taxpayer can use his rebate to fill his gas-guzzler if he likes.
at gas-guzzler (n.) under gas, n.1
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