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A Chosen Few choose

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[US] E.J. Edwards Chosen 124: Rube gave him a disapproving glance. ‘Crape hanger!’.
at crape-hanger, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 33: Just before they smothered me I heard Two-Ton copping a plea to give them as much of the loot as they wanted if they didn’t hurt or kill him.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 84: I don’t give a good goddamn whether you have fucked him or not.
at not give a good goddam, v.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 51: His first experience with raisin jack [...] was too long ago to remember what it tasted like. But this stuff was a little bit of all right.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 185: No, I didn’t, and frankly don’t give a good fuck.
at not give a fuck, v.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 155: He says you two don’t get along worth a good damn.
at worth a good damn under worth a..., phr.
[US] H. Rhodes A Chosen Few (1966) 47: This is my ace boy, Blood.
at ace boy (n.) under ace, adj.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 91: Another case of man’s almighty faculty for making bass ackwards decisions.
at bass-ackward(s), adj.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 171: They got that smart-alecky look about them.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 52: He hadn’t been in one of these knockdown, dragout hick joints in a long time and they were known to be rowdy.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 180: Jackson’s got him so snowed, he don’t even know his ass from a hole in th’ ground.
at not know one’s arse/ass from a hole in the ground (v.) under arse, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 192: This man is no more a messenger of God than your garbage man. He’s a con artist from Chicago.
at con-artist, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 81: So shit, I sure as hell wasn’t gonna go fallin’ over her.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 81: ‘Later she told Darly she was a fool to give it away to a poor spook with his ass in th’ wind.’ ‘Looks like her ass is in th’ wind now ... what’s Darly gonna do?’.
at have one’s ass in the wind under ass, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 184: To Blood’s way of thinking, women liked goodness and gentleness, but preferred a periodic asskicking raw man with that goodness and gentleness.
at ass-kicking, adv.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 44: No noise, no laughing, no grab-ass under penalty of the DI’s wrath.
at grab-ass, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 73: We don’t tolerate fuckoff’s here ... your ass will suck wind before this day is over.
at one’s ass sucks wind under ass, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 136: His narrow-ass deputy and a coupla white MPs are on their way over.
at narrow-assed, adj.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 11: Thinks his dog-ass daughter is too good for me.
at dog-assed, adj.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 32: If I ever had t’lock asses with Prong, I’d try my damnedest to shoot him before he got a chance t’get his blade out.
at lock assholes (v.) under asshole, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 81: She told Darly she was a fool to give it away to a poor spook.
at give it away, v.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 25: Fisher stood now, watching to see how many bunks he could turn over that morning and how many lips he could split for backtalk.
at back-talk, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 47: Mess with me and I’ll put th’ bad mouth on you down at th’ nurses’ home.
at put the bad mouth on (v.) under badmouth, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 140: Bill says [...] ‘Maybe a good licking will help keep ’em in their place.’ ... BATSHIT!!!
at batshit, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 214: It ain’t no big thang.
at big thing, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 94: Oh, I should’a know’d it was you, big mouth.
at bigmouth, n.
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 168: It all depends on where they think they need a bird colonel with his MOS.
at bird colonel (n.) under bird, n.1
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 163: Sounds like she didn’t give you that bird yet.
at bird, n.3
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 161: Yeah, that Five-First was a bitch of an outfit all right.
at bitch, n.1
[US] H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 47: It’s the blamedest thing.
at blame, adj.
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