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[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 64: You’re drunker than shit, man.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 51: ‘That thing went off!’ ‘Sure as shit did.’.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 84: I’ve been working on a coonass boat, but I can’t keep doing that, Johnny. They aren’t decent men like you and me.
at coon-ass, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 275: She had just split from her husband [...] who had started messing around with some sort of hallucinogenic drug and gone nuts. She’d had him put away.
at put away, v.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 162: She’s barking the skin off me!
at bark, v.1
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 80: OK. Just don’t bust a gut. I don’t give a fart if your taste in putas is off base.
at off base (adj.) under base, n.2
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 72: Four bits a crack, Pete, no matter what tricks you develop.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 272: Here! Over here! Look over here, you shitbrained fuckers!
at shit-brained, adj.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 140: Before a hurricane they turn apoplectic, get all red and bugeyed.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 120: You could bum-rap his wife before you could knock that goofy car.
at bum rap, v.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 206: We had two bottles of pretty good champagne. I was ready to call it a night.
at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 82: She chewed my ear before we got on the bed about how unfairly she was being treated.
at chew someone’s ear, v.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 101: I am a big ass, chi-chis, a cunt, something to put on a bed. [Ibid.] 119: I will introduce you to my wife’s friend with the big chi-chis. Big, man!
at chi-chi, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 53: Way it goes, compadre. Way it goes.
at compadre, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 70: If Western movies were true, I am sure the main streets of all those cowtowns would be mud, too.
at cow town, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 85: If I don’t cut the mustard, you don’t have to pay me.
at cut the mustard, v.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 188: I got drunked up one night.
at drunked up, adj.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 127: Says he had his forty-five hanging just inside the front door.
at forty-five, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 60: I don’t know what the hell they let them fruits hang out in here for.
at fruit, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 53: Way it goes, compadre, Way it goes.
at that’s the way it goes, phr.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 80: OK. Just don’t bust a gut. I don’t give a fart if your taste in putas is off base.
at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 85: He was hopeless. A Jonah. A man you could pity for having fallen so far.
at jonah, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 85: Hey, Pete, come on, let’s cop a mope.
at cop a mope (v.) under mope, n.1
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 52: Whoo! I mean that motherfucker went off!
at motherfucker, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 41: You are married now one year and your wife has nothing in the oven.
at oven, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 73: My old pajonk has crawled up in my belly to hide.
at pajonk, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 81: Her pubes were neatly trimmed and shaped like a valentine.
at pubes, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 82: She also pulled for compliments.
at pull, v.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 5: I laughed and put my arms around her. ‘I think you are some punkins.’.
at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 46: I’ll still dream those bad dreams and feel as punky and rotten and unforgiven as ever.
at punky, adj.
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