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[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 170: Have a cigarette. Die of cancer. I almost give a cow’s crap.
at give a shit, v.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 171: ‘You don’t have to park your ugly fat ass on the stool next to mine.’ ‘Fucking-ay-John Ditty-Bag-well-told I don’t.’.
at fucking-A, adj.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 12: ‘Eighter from Decatur.’ He tosses the dice again and loses, a four and a three.
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 159: ‘Hell, Boston is full of sailors.’ ‘Yeah, but how many of them are salt and pepper, toting two .45’s in an AWOL bag?’.
at salt and pepper, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 98: ‘What’s up her ass?’ ‘Damned if I know,’ says Mule.
at up someone’s arse/ass under arse, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 22: I wish I was going to Portsmouth instead of being stuck in this pig’s ass of a place.
at pig’s arse, n.1
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 121: Is this the original Bad-Ass or is this some candy-ass seaman playing Scrabble at the goddam nurses’ home?
at candy-ass, adj.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 142: Do you think we’re gonna stand here and be hard-assed because some dude in Norfolk forgot to endorse our orders?
at hard-ass, v.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 2: Bad-Ass, wake up, it’s way the hell past reveille.
at bad-ass, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 118: Hell, it don’t make a rat’s ass to me neither.
at not mean a rat’s ass (v.) under rat’s ass, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 74: But, lad, you’re talking to the original Billy Bad-Ass. [Ibid.] 7: Billy’s name, of course, is not Bad-Ass [...] Buddusky became Bad-Ass, which in navy parlance means a very tough customer.
at Billy Bad-Ass, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 66: ‘Both I guess,’ says Meadows. ‘Both your sweet aunt’s ass.’.
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 82: I was in a drug bag.
at bag, n.1
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 98: Charlotte comes back with a Baggie in one hand and some strawberry paper in the other. ‘Grass, anybody?’.
at baggie, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 3: C’mon, man, don’t break my balls, I’m just trying to get along.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 182: That kid Meadows and his eight years for a lousy forty fucking bananas.
at banana, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 33: They sure are the benies if you don’t have an education.
at benies, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 3: It’s something really big-deal I think.
at big deal, adj.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 51: ‘The Big Honcho,’ says Mule. ‘If he tells you to shit, you ask, “How much and what color, sir?”’.
at big man (n.) under big, adj.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 75: When I was a kid I knew guys who were real Bohemians, I mean in the Blood — Bohunks.
at bohunk, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 74: You two bastards are trying to drive me bug-fug in the head, right?
at bug fug (adj.) under bug, n.4
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 26: Don’t try any funny stuff.
at funny business, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 71: ‘So how’s by you in the navy?’ ‘Same old crud.’.
at how’s by you?, phr.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 28: Why you figure they put the cock to you? [...] Did you have a record before this?
at put the cock to (v.) under cock, n.3
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 41: It’s colder than a witch’s tit out.
at ...a witch’s tit under colder than..., adj.
[US] D. Ponicsan The Last Detail 77: Hell, I haven’t been in a brawl in a coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 52: ‘Well, I be goddam,’ says Mule.
at I’ll be goddamned! (excl.) under god-damn, v.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 104: The movie is a dog.
at dog, n.2
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 100: You’re a good old egg.
at good egg, n.
[US] D. Ponicsan Last Detail 91: We got no place to flop tonight. Could you give us a floor?
at flop, v.
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