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[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 80: They were coot-drunk.
at drunk as a cootie, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 143: ‘How d’you like them apples?’ she beamed.
at how do you like them apples?, phr.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 165: Put the artillery away before somebody gets hurt.
at artillery, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 114: ‘You’re pleased.’ ‘Happy as a horned toad.’.
at ...a clam under happy as..., adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 126: ‘How about 112?’ ‘Not,’ I said, ‘on your adolescent ass.’.
at not on your ass! (excl.) under ass, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 167: ‘You’re back again, Mr Butters.’ ‘The bad penny.’.
at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 7: ‘A great loss,’ he sighed, making conversation, ‘to American literature.’ ‘Balls,’ I said. [...] ‘Big burning balls.’.
at balls!, excl.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 11: You bean bastard.
at bean, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 173: He’s probably bellied up to a bottle by now, the worthless bastard.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 37: I draw a blank there.
at draw a blank (v.) under blank, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 72: So now you’ve been hit on the head and you’re about to go blotto – so what else is new?
at blotto, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 75: God bless the Brits.
at Brit, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 240: Oh my God Annie. Mercy buckets!
at mercy buckets, phr.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 194: Played games with you and lied to you and tried to terrorize your ass and finally, for a capper [...] let you open up their godamned closet.
at capper, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 230: Digging into the grave on the right. A bit of beard. I tossed my cookies.
at toss one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 221: What if the slightest turn of the chain wheel and the hand rods resulted in a dance of death upon the ropes?
at dance, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 235: She’s a dandy, that girl.
at dandy, n.2
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 78: I don’t give a diddly-damn about —.
at diddley-damn (adj.) under diddly, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 188: You’ve flipped, freaked out, Tyler.
at flipped-out, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 124: After that I folded.
at fold, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 7: Underneath, the man was a living four-letter word.
at four-letter word, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 125: Balled my baby, had he [...] And killed two guys [...] And dragged a third half to death under a fuzzmobile?
at fuzzmobile (n.) under fuzz, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 32: Great gobs of space and sky.
at gob, n.3
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 64: He was a swell-head son of a bitch.
at swell-headed, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 151: It was a cheap, shit-heel shot.
at shit-heel, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 91: I [...] slipped into clean jocks.
at jock, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 216: I think you are a joto. A queer. And a coward.
at joto, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 9: It threw me for an absolute loop.
at throw for a loop (v.) under loop, n.2
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 148: I had come to Harding’s marble orchard to check Millie Mill’s stories.
at marble orchard (n.) under marble, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Skeletons 233: I could be a cowardly son of a bitch and say, okay, baby, I christen you Miss Incest of 1946.
at Miss, n.
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