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[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 151: Anteater – not mushroom [...] He’s not circumcised, sir!
at anteater, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 39: What the hell is wrong with those Marines? [...] Those poor bastards have gone Asiatic.
at asiatic, adj.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 363: I traded in my old beater pickup truck for a minivan.
at beater, n.2
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 899: He’s been on the horn to his huffduff people, the Air Force, the whole bit.
at whole bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 300: Randy hears his words from the other end of a mile-long bumwad tube. [Ibid.] 798: Now I’ve [...] given you my whole supply of bumwad.
at bum wad (n.) under bum, n.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 115: You are going to be in West Bumfuck, Arkansas, riding in the Memorial Day parade.
at Bumfuck, Egypt, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 771: I have been out in the world [...] getting butt-fucked by Fortune.
at buttfuck, v.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 681: No matter how much you plan [...] when the big day actually arrives, you still can’t find your ass with both hands.
at can’t find one’s arse/ass with both hands under can’t..., phr.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 884: I knew it wouldn’t be so great for you. But for me it’s the cat’s pajamas.
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 605: Ah figgered you ’n’ ah’ud have plenny a tahm to chew the rag.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 37: These all came down to American brawn [...] versus that Nipponese chop-socky.
at chop-socky (n.) under chop, v.2
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 311: I smell a con job.
at con job, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 296: He heads downhill. Towards the bow. Towards Davy Jones’s Locker.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 756: Having actually been a part of the United States at one point they can take digs at it in a way that’s usually reserved for lifelong U.S. citizens.
at dig, n.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 262: The rumor [...] is that a digger – an Australian grunt – found it.
at digger, n.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 26: The kind of exponential growth that should get us all into fuck-you money before we turn forty.
at fuck-you money (n.) under fuck-you, adj.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 807: It’s accepted by everyone who doesn’t have his head completely up his ass that the war’s going to be won by whichever side has the best technology.
at have one’s head up one’s arse (v.) under head, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 451: ‘Could you reach that jiz rag?’ Shaftoe says, eyeing a neatly folded United States Marine Corps handkerchief.
at jizzrag (n.) under jism, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 647: And then they were gone; resisting the urge to lay a patch until they were a couple of blocks distant.
at lay a patch (v.) under lay, v.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 163: Detachment 2702 – a hand-picked wrecking crew of combat-hardened leathernecks.
at leatherneck, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 151: Anteater – not mushroom [...] He’s not circumcised, sir!
at mushroom, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 613: I’ve killed more Nips than seismic activity. [...] I speak a little Nip.
at Nip, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 383: Three Latino men: a middle-aged fellow of great importance, a somewhat younger assistant, and a palooka.
at palooka, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 887: She beams – her pearlies are very white in the sun.
at pearlies, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 384: Peg house habitues [...] Pyschotic gunslingers. People who owned slaves.
at peg-house (n.) under peg, n.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 605: So, to these guys, you are a shirttail relative they glimpsed once or twice when they were tiny little boys.
at shirt-tail relation (n.) under shirt, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 664: He was just this Orange County white-shoe lawyer.
at white-shoe, adj.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 327: Most of the delegations have brought hired guns [...] One by one, these guys stand up to take their shots.
at take a shot (at) (v.) under shot, n.1
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 642: Then the pile of photos begins to look depressingly large. [...] Waterhouse was evidently a shutterbug of sorts.
at shutter-bug (n.) under shutter, n.
[US] N. Stephenson Cryptonomicon 383: Got some IDs, struck out on some others.
at strike out (v.) under strike, v.
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