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[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 250: Girls are judged very harshly. The girl who is pegged as a scab, a shank, a bat, or an ox may be shattered forever.
at bat, n.1
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 251: If you’re really into something, naturally you T.C.B. — take care of business.
at take care of business, v.
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 250: Foxes are the good-looking, dyno, out-of-sight chicks.
at dyno, adj.2
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 223: In California in 1966, a preference for battered-looking sneakers evolved [...] called [...] ‘grubbies’ by teen-agers.
at grubs, n.
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 254: He found out that in their argot a ‘lily’ meant a homosexual.
at lily, n.
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 222: In early 1966 [...] Dayton’s Department Store brought the top English designer of Mod Clothing, John Stephen, to Minneapolis to open a special shop.
at mod, adj.
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 250: Girls are judged very harshly. The girl who is pegged as a scab, a shank, a bat, or an ox may be shattered forever.
at ox, n.
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 250: Girls are judged very harshly. The girl who is pegged as a scab, a shank, a bat, or an ox may be shattered forever.
at scab, n.1
[US] H. Sebold Adolescence 250: Girls are judged very harshly. The girl who is pegged as a scab, a shank, a bat, or an ox may be shattered forever.
at shank, n.2
[US] W. Flexner Adolescence 57: Her classmates did not like to have her around, and did tell one another tha she ‘had a few buttons missing’.
at button short, a (adj.) under button, n.1
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