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[US] R. Price Breaks 295: I had to gawk at every whack-a-doo sitting on a stoop.
at whack-a-doo, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 328: Break a leg, kiddo . . . break two.
at break a leg!, excl.
[US] R. Price Breaks 33: No matter how many sociology [...] courses I might have aced [etc.].
at ace, v.
[US] R. Price Breaks 240: You’re fuckin’ aces, kid!
at aces, adj.
[US] R. Price Breaks 323: I was pulling an all-nighter, getting on intimate terms with the streets.
at pull an all-nighter (v.) under all-nighter, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 11: Instead of goin’ to some ambulance-chaser factory on short notice, he’s gonna move back in with us.
at ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 136: ‘We’ve been separated before but . . .’ [...] ‘She couldn’t take your doggin’ around?’.
at dog around, v.
[US] R. Price Breaks 196: I started getting incensed, hard-assed, filled with [...] outrage.
at hard-ass, adj.
[US] R. Price Breaks 156: He was the king of irreverence, a bright, quick get-down wise-ass.
at wise-ass, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 77: I tell you, babycakes, you don’t know what work is.
at babycakes (n.) under baby, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 142: Yes, I was definitely hired, no backsies.
at backsy (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] R. Price Breaks 156: Tell them to get it the hell out of room 220 so I can move in the way I was supposed to, and this bad boy’s yours.
at bad boy, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 55: Madison countered with a balls-up move [...] No sale.
at balls-up, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 166: He had the absolute balls to show up for this rap session in a black T-shirt, dungarees [...] and a gold Cartier wristwatch.
at balls, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 193: It was exciting to me that she had been a ballsy student.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 405: ‘Pete’s mom was almost as big as me . . .’ Jack swallowed a belch [...] ‘Yeah, she was a real barge.’.
at barge, n.1
[US] R. Price Breaks 147: The beard was an ex-jailbird majoring in hypnotism.
at beard, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 90: I could tell; they were ex-greasers from the tightness of their bells.
at bells, n.1
[US] R. Price Breaks 423: You’ll just have to bite the bullet.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[US] R. Price Breaks 32: Maybe I should have bitten the bullet and gone to St. John’s.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[US] R. Price Breaks 101: He had been busted for selling blotter acid.
at blotter, n.1
[US] R. Price Breaks 235: Coming on like the blue-eyed brother and letting Whoosh get me drunk.
at blue-eyed soul brother (n.) under blue-eyed, adj.3
[US] R. Price Breaks 41: I was a real turkey and a boing-boing tourist around that stuff. [Ibid.] 295: A passing boing-boing with a camera around his neck.
at boing-boing, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 171: I had a hard time imagining myself letting go, putting on a rubber face in front of people and [...] bouncing around like a shameless boing-boing.
at boing-boing, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 263: Oh man, we’ll bomb around all weekend.
at bomb, v.1
[US] R. Price Breaks 75: I’ll be bookin’ all day. I’ll show you the law school.
at book, v.1
[US] R. Price Breaks 125: The long wall held a cartoon mural of the 1940 Simon Straight Arrows, the only team to make it to the Rose Bowl. [...] five years earlier it had filled me with boola-boola reverence.
at boola-boola, n.
[US] R. Price Breaks 156: His act, an urban ditty-bop routine, was too much like my own adopted persona.
at diddy-bop, adj.
[US] R. Price Breaks 192: Her balances ranged from forty-three dollars to six hundred, including a few bouncers here and there.
at bouncer, n.2
[US] R. Price Breaks 157: I came on strong with a streety Bowery-Boys identity [...] playing down the boojy trappings of our apartment.
at bourgie, adj.
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