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A Hall of Mirrors choose

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[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 105: ‘WUSA is a wel planned business operation’ [...] ‘You mean it isn’t amateur night.’ Rheinhardt said. ‘No,’ Jack Noonan said, ‘it isn’t amateur night’.
at amateur night (n.) under amateur, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 56: Nobody here gives a cold fart what you can’t stand, Harold.
at not care a fart, v.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 313: I didn’t come out to play fiddly fuck.
at fiddle-fuck around, v.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 57: He got up shortly to go and [...] bad-eye the Dutchmen.
at bad-eye, v.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 202: You’re batshit.
at batshit, adj.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 229: ‘You’re blasted,’ Geraldine told him.
at blasted, adj.2
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 94: ‘Want to buy a bug?’ [...] ‘Hell, give me one,’ Geraldine said, going into her bag again. ‘I’ll play with ye. Give me one for him, too. This is his lucky day’ [...] She took the change and handed over two green slips with red numbers printed on them.
at bug, n.4
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 69: The buncos, the morals, the immigrations, everybody wanted to talk to Farley the Sailor.
at bunco, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 77: How about a piece for an old chumbuddy.
at chum, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 181: I clean you up from the juice and now you’re a teahead.
at clean up, v.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 73: These crink vendors were selling her roaches stuffed with pine cones.
at crink, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 312: Why you dopey dilbert, just have a look in there and you’ll see.
at dopey dilbert (n.) under dopey, adj.2
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 63: Rum dums each and all!
at rum-dum, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 316: Them eight ball friends of yours.
at eightball, adj.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 230: Are we going to sit around here and argue about that poor freaked out twitch?
at freak out, v.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 225: ‘No, no,’ the girl said. ‘It’ll freak him.’.
at freak, v.3
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 358: I don’t have the fuckupest idea what choke to death on a bunk chain mean.
at fuck-up, adj.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 324: We are not strutting maniacs like the gibroney and the greaseball!
at gibroney, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 126: Hey who are you goodbuddy?
at good buddy (n.) under good, adj.1
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 237: You send me the goodies on that bastard, hear? I want to do right by him.
at goodies, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 78: It’s the graveyard shift and the pay is scurrilous.
at graveyard shift, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 181: You are a hooley like all preachers. [Ibid.] 312: That knock-nose hooley made a hobo of me.
at hoolie, n.1
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 315: By Jesus, you have started [...] a race riot in this goddam place.
at Jesus!, excl.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 311: How you gonna stop ’em you long drink o’ water?
at long drink (of water) (n.) under long, adj.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 50: Whaddya say sport, loose it up one time — Mother need never know, sport—.
at loosen (up), v.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 202: You’re a drunk, you’re cowardly, you’re a mouthoff.
at mouth-off (n.) under mouth, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 323: It does look like the nigra people’s gonna go with us.
at nigger, adj.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 230: I’m going out and drink and put somebody on.
at put someone on (v.) under on, adv.1
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 316: I just come up against a parcel of niggers you bastards let in.
at parcel, n.
[US] R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 312: The old man sneered, ‘you ain’t but a big young peckerhead’.
at peckerhead (n.) under pecker, n.2
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