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[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 14: ‘Are there whorehouses in Japan?’ [...] ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 324: You fuckin’-A whoopee John!
at fucking-A, adj.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 179: ‘You fucking A,’ Poke agreed solemnly.
at fucking-A, adj.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 17: I don’t give two farts in hell for no what’s-his-name Charley Escobar.
at not care a fart, v.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 169: I don’t give a large rat’s ass.
at not give a rat’s ass, v.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 333: Take a psycho [...] Play nuts and you’ll ace out of it.
at ace, v.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 23: ‘Don’t let your alligator mouth overload your canary ass,’ he said tight-lipped.
at alligator mouth (n.) under alligator, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 439: Well, at least [...] you ain’t nickel-and-diming me to death for a change.
at nickel-and-dime, v.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 414: I’m women’s answer to the butter-and-egg man.
at butter-and-egg man, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 138: ‘Your ass!’ Pappy howled.
at your arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 42: Well I’ll be a kiss my ass, [...] I thought sure as hell you be buried in a poncho by now.
at I’ll be a kiss my ass! (excl.) under kiss my arse!, excl.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 248: My right guide’s a satchel ass bastard.
at satchel-arsed, adj.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 169: Goddam but it’s dark. Black as a cat’s ass at midnight.
at black as..., adj.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 321: ‘The Red Cross,’ he snorted disgustedly. ‘Wouldn’t wipe my ass on ’em.’.
at ass-wipe, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 303: You’re a real bad ass.
at bad-ass, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 268: That rank-happy bastard could ass-kiss all he wanted to.
at ass-kiss, v.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 320: Broke. Fat ass broke!
at fat-ass, adv.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 56: Anything’s better than that ass-hole of the world.
at asshole, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 45: ‘Sounds like you don’t like him,’ Giff grinned. Poke snorted. ‘The baby raper cost me two months at the brig.’.
at baby-raper, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 459: I’ve known for quite some time that he’s been, shall we say, dropping the ball?
at drop the ball (v.) under ball, n.1
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 322: Was he going bamboo? No, he wasn‘t going bamboo. He knew what he had to do.
at bamboo, adj.
[US] (con. 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 249: Brass bandits [...] clamored on the heels of the marines, scooping up the expended cartridges as fast as they were fired.
at -bandit, sfx
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 271: What’re you lookin’ at, banjo eyes?
at banjo eyes, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 118: What was that about have you ever seen a grinning bear? [Ibid.] 178: I woke up with my nose down there one night and woulda sworn to God I was staring that old grinnin’ bear right in the face.
at grinning bear, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 178: I woke up with my nose down there one night and woulda sworn to God I was staring that old grinnin’ bear right in the face.
at bear, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 299: No one yelled ‘Mine!’ and chortling happily belly-flopped on it.
at bellyflop, v.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 60: Here were the offspring of those other mercenaries who had fought in Big Two who were the offspring of the mercenaries who fought in Big One.
at big one, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 55: He was a prisoner of war during Big Two. [Ibid.] 60: Here were the offspring of those other mercenaries who had fought in Big Two who were the offspring of the mercenaries who fought in Big One.
at Big Two, the, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 179: This peacetime is for goonie birds. I’ll take Ko-rea any day.
at goony-bird, n.
[US] (con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 229: He sat in his immaculate starched dungarees and spit-shined boondockers.
at boondockers, n.
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