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Song of the Silent Snow choose

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[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 11: Danny, a half-assed hustler from 43rd Street.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 75: Shes probably ballin some other cat but wants to keep you around in case it dont work out.
at ball, v.3
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 69: All she wants to do is break my balls.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 69: Give lover boy a beer.
at lover-boy, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 85: She wants to play it that way what do I care. She has a bug upper ass that one, a bug upper ass.
at have a bug up one’s ass (v.) under bug, n.4
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 74: Come on Harry, chugalug.
at chugalug!, excl.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 11: Phil got on a hot roll and was cleanin everybody.
at clean, v.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 12: He was gonna take us all to the cleaners.
at take to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 34: He asks me what she wants — OOOOO whattza matta? ya crazy? HAHAHA — He’d betta go ta Denmark.
at go (to) Copenhagen (v.) under Copenhagen, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 79: Im tellin ya Mike ta drop it. Just drop it, okay?
at drop, v.1
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 11: Everytime he threw another pass he’d roar and yell shoot, come on ya bastads, fade me. I’m hot.
at fade, v.1
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 83: I’ve had it with your bullshit.
at have had it, v.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 11: He was taking all kinds of bets and winning: gagging his point, the hard way, over and under 7.
at hard way (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 73: He squeezed his joint so just a thin stream of urine came out.
at joint, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 68: Having the rag on is one thing but this ridic—.
at have the rag on (v.) under rag, n.1
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 19: Hes really a very nice guy, you know. I mean a regular guy.
at regular guy (n.) under regular, adj.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 69: Whatta ya say Ron [...] what’s happening?
at what do you say? under say, v.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 75: Shes probably ballin some other cat but wants to keep you around in case it dont work out — they all nodded very wisely. Yeah, thats their schtick man.
at schtick, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 11: Everytime he threw another pass he’d roar and yell shoot, comeon ya bastads, fade me. Im hot.
at shoot, v.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 75: Ya gotta keepem in their place or theyll shove it in and break it off.
at shove it in and break it off (v.) under shove, v.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 35: Empty bottle passed back (clink) — no more, all gone, three dead soldiers.
at dead soldier (n.) under soldier, n.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 79: I keep tellin ya every fuckin time [...] to just take a couple a drinks an cool it but you gotta get stoned an go fuckin crazy.
at stoned, adj.
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 76: He looks pretty straight, maybe he slept it off.
at straight, adj.2
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 71: They were still the supers, a job that was much easier since the furnace was converted to oil.
at super, n.1
[US] H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 75: They start comin on with that, do it my way or else, bullshit an ya gotta givem their walkin papers.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
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