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[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 6: Grinning at each other as though we had at last aced life itself. [Ibid.] 19: He aced his courses without buying books.
at ace, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 30: ‘TV,’ I said, ‘straight-arrow. How come you invited me?’.
at straight-arrow, adv.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 139: In Soho they’re baggy. In Mayfair they’re imported from France. They have a certain commercial smile.
at baggy, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 3: He needs some flesh for Friday night, no foul balls, nothing too brainy, all queens and amenable.
at foul ball, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 154: They are [...] so barfy to look at they can never get dates.
at barfy (adj.) under barf, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 10: I want serious readers, not a bunch of BB-stackers.
at BB stacker, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 334: Beaucoup beers.
at beaucoup, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 34: This Thompson big-talker.
at big talk, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 16: I bought a car, a year-old Porsche, a real bomb.
at bomb, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 109: The boys were so bombed that they were completely incapable of evil maneuver and said a simple, staggery good night.
at bombed, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 108: Nex’ Tuesday night my lil’ boons we go into action for causa freedom and democracy!
at boon, n.2
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 192: A hot-box coed like Tuggle.
at hot box (n.) under box, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 146: We did some brainstorming.
at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 172: Her smile was so broad, her bumps and grinds so exaggerated.
at bump and grind (v.) under bump, v.1
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 16: He said [...] he would check us in the afternoon.
at check, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 20: Finally I said chins up.
at chin up!, excl.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 25: We had clicked.
at click, v.3
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 178: Tuggle and Quentin clinching.
at clinch, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 33: We went into a clinch so violent that we swayed.
at clinch, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 201: It’s back to the ratrace. But I clue you in, you guys can have that slush.
at clue (someone) in (v.) under clue, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 93: I clue you, nobody can be more fungous than middle-agers on the grape.
at clue, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 5: If you come from the Midwest and have never seen it you are really clutched, that is, seized by emotion. [Ibid.] 138: I was double-clutched. I had no clue whether to laugh ... or cry.
at clutched (up) (adj.) under clutch (up), v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 31: It is really reprehensible and cruddy not to have a goal.
at cruddy, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 151: We’re always being warned about cutting because it costs the U five dollars for each class hour for each student.
at cut, v.4
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 27: He was soon given his own dee-jay show every night.
at DJ, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 5: Build the loveliest drag strip in history and put our hot-rodders on it.
at drag, n.1
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 34: I was flaked out from no sleep.
at flaked out, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 189: When Piston [...] would flub a point he would throw himself bodily against the screen.
at flub, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 203: The Mike Todd of Michigan State had folded out of town.
at fold up, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 112: The only thing suspect about his innocence was his tendency to French-kiss given the slightest opportunity.
at French kiss, v.
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