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The Human Stain choose

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[US] P. Roth Human Stain 117: I’m supposed to give a shit about some jerk-off sitting in the fifteenth row?
at give a shit, v.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 65: Ape-shit guys who recognize the horror, but know it is the very best moment of their lives.
at apeshit, adj.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 259: What are you, an asswipe?
at ass-wipe, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 215: Asshole! I don’t care what the fuck they are! They count as gooks!
at asshole, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 227: Coming on top of everything else it breaks my fucking hump.
at break someone’s hump (v.) under break, v.1
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 183: His fear of the Shore Patrol, and of the court-martial, and of the brig.
at brig, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 65: One day he’s door-gunning in Vietnam, seeing choppers explode, in midair, seeing his buddies explode.
at buddy, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 182: Just as at the white cathouse, nobody took him here for anything other than what he was.
at cat-house, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 220: ‘Cool it,’ Louie says.
at cool it, v.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 235: How’s that going to help me when my car craps out?
at crap out, v.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 216: They didn’t do dick. They don’t know what war is.
at dick, n.1
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 248: Gimpy spic bastard, leave me alone!
at gimpy, adj.2
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 249: The thousand-yard stare which we all picked up when we were just brother grunts.
at grunt, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 117: You don’t do what I ask you. Why’s that, wise guy?
at wise guy, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 255: We did a lot of humpin’, but sooner or later you knew you’d get back to that fifty.
at hump, v.1
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 221: And Henry is in on it now, that’s clear.
at in on, adv.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 101: Coleman caught him in what Doc Chizner called ‘the labonz’.
at labonza, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 216: This brute-sized, opaque, pony-tailed lug without any desire ever to speak.
at lug, n.2
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 224: Religiously taking his meds — for the anxiety his Klonopin, for the depression his Zoloft, for the sizzling ankles and the gnawing knees and the relentlessly aching hips his Salsalate.
at med, n.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 222: Bobcat sets himself the pleasant task of polishing off Les’s soup.
at polish off, v.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 216: They’re all upset they didn’t take out Saddam Hussein.
at take out, v.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 183: Having got himself reamed, steamed, and dry-cleaned (as well as properly tattooed in the bargain).
at ream, v.
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 129: A theatrically big-featured, vivacious dark girl [...] in the parlance of the moment ‘stacked’.
at stacked, adj.1
[US] P. Roth Human Stain 216: Shit. Weekend warriors and all of a sudden they have to see some real action.
at weekend warrior (n.) under weekend, adj.
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