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[US] Week (US) 4 May 17: You feel like you’re back at school, quaking at your desk as some battle-ax of a teacher rips into the slowest kid in the class.
at battle-axe, n.1
[US] Week (US) 8 June 25: This ‘blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise’ of a movie.
at blockheaded, adj.
[US] Week (US) 8 June 16: I was kind of bummed out.
at bummed (out), adj.
[US] Week (US) 27 Apr. 8: Does Jason pick on me about my big fat butt?
at butt, n.1
[US] Week (US) 4 May 25: She’s intrigued by her power to ‘push his vunerable on and off buttons’.
at press someone’s button(s) (v.) under button, n.1
[US] Week (US) 8 June 25: Dressed in loud Hawaiian shirts and ‘armed with can-do moxie’.
at can-do, adj.
[US] Week (US) 1 June 24: Taking on every convention of Broadway musicals – cheesy dialogue, ridiculous plots.
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] Week (US) 4 May 17: She is an ‘odd-looking duck with an oddly grating voice’.
at duck, n.1
[US] Week (US) 1 June 3: The happiness experts are flummoxed.
at flummoxed, adj.2
[US] Week (US) 15 June 8: I was gonzo over riding.
at gonzo, adj.1
[US] Week (US) 29 June 6: He was only a scapegoat for a practice of accepting kickbacks that was common in the ’80s and ’90s.
at kickback, n.1
[US] Week (US) 8 June 13: Will the greenback kill the loonie?
at loonie, n.1
[US] Week (US) 29 June 19: The idea of wrinkled people having sex just throws them for a loop.
at throw for a loop (v.) under loop, n.2
[US] Week (US) 4 May 8: Has she ever made out in a car?
at make out, v.
[US] Week (US) 1 June 25: Like when a moony Lopez pieces together the dandelion puff ball.
at moony, adj.
[US] Week (US) 8 June 25: Dressed in loud Hawaiian shirts and ‘armed with can-do moxie’.
at moxie, n.2
[US] Week (US) 1 June 23: Ehrenreich offers no suggestions [...] and is ‘mum’ on universal health care.
at mum, adj.
[US] Week (US) 15 June 4: His daughter Sarah got nailed for alcohol possession at age 16.
at nail, v.
[US] Week (US) 4 May 17: Some battle-ax of a teacher rips into the slowest kid in the class.
at rip into (v.) under rip, v.
[US] Week (US) 15 June 13: It’s also political savvy.
at savvy, n.
[US] Week (US) 29 June 38: Call it [...] 7-7 and nobody would skull you with a chair.
at skull, v.1
[US] Week (US) 27 Apr. 12: Russia pretends to be rejecting the West, when it knows it needs to suck up instead.
at suck up, v.
[US] Week (US) 4 May 8: James King has a thing about cars. ‘When I move out to California I’m gonna have 20 million different cars.’.
at have a thing about (v.) under thing, n.
[US] Week (US) 29 June 19: Old men out trolling for prostitutes.
at troll, v.
[US] Week (US) 29 June 23: First they’d have to admit they see themselves as the pompous windbag at the centre of his dark comedy.
at windbag, n.
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