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[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1980) 162: The machine klunks out, an’ it’s us that are fixin’ it.
at klunk out, v.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 300: I said I’m gonna get out of this cluck if it’s the last thing I do.
at cluck, n.2
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 34: A coyote is a smuggler of people.
at coyote, n.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 396: There was a lot of pot smoking and skinny-dipping.
at skinny-dip, v.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 373: It wasn’t until I saw this guy flip-flop that I realized how powerful vested interests are. Suddenly he’s saying: ‘Don’t rock the boat’.
at flip-flop, v.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 19: He dined on graveyard stew, bread broken up in a bowl of hot milk.
at graveyard stew (n.) under graveyard, n.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 183: They weren’t hell-raising Irish.
at hell-raising (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 24: Kerplunk went her American Dream.
at kaplunk!, excl.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 298: They did fingerprint me and mug-shot me.
at mug-shoot (v.) under mug, n.1
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 34: A coyote is a smuggler of people. He’s also called called pollero. Pollo is chicken. He’s the one who guides chickens through the border.
at pollo, n.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 18: The guests were boomer firemen [...] ex-Wobblies, as well as assorted scissorbills.
at scissorbill, n.
[US] in S. S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 164: My friends are always talkin’ about havin’ a nice sheen. That’s a nice car or van.
at sheen, n.2
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 177: We didn’t have shit boxes like they had in the movie.
at shit-box (n.) under shit, n.
[US] in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams (1982) 200: I was given a shot in the arm by Cesar Chavez.
at shot in the arm (n.) under shot, n.1
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