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[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 29: He don’t amount to a hill of beans.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 99: I don’t give a good fart what you do!
at not care a fart, v.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 29: It just makes me madder than thunder.
at madder than a woodheap, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 184: Not me, ace.
at ace, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 227: Hey! That’s straight ace!
at ace, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 362: At the gangway Jack snapped a fuck-it-all salute toward the fantail and went ashore.
at fuck-it-all, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 382: Scram! Amscray!
at amscray, v.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 55: He was an open apple knocker from the West Side wearing plain Monkey Ward jeans rather than Levi’s and high-top horsehide shit kickers.
at apple-knocker, n.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 386: He never got drunk when he went ashore alone, never helled around.
at hell around, v.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 234: Enema your ass!
at your arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 45: Bucky was tall [...] with olive skin and long straight black hair he combed meticulously into a perfect duck’s ass.
at duck’s arse, n.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 387: All the brothers are brave and all the sisters are virtuous – in a pig’s ass!
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 41: He wanted to pop in and tell the Gy-reen to shove it up his ass.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 343: Outside his booth everything seemed still to be dying and more raggedyassed than ever.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 119: Maybe it wasn’t that the dolls in the church were so tight-assed.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 317: It’s a bitch down there. Hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire!
at ...a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire under hot as..., adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 180: He’s a tail gunner [...] He’s as queer as a nine-dollar bill.
at ...a three-dollar bill under queer as..., adj.
[US] (con. late 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 651: He quit all grabass in the barracks, pursued his job.
at grab-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 312: They’re [films] supposed to come rewound, but they come ass-to and every whichaway.
at assways (adj.) under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 271: The young deck officer wore a raw look that reflected the ass chewing he’d had.
at ass-chewing (n.) under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 27: Sweat YOUR big satchel ass!
at satchel-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 355: Who’s the wiseass that said that?
at wise-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 237: Buck went deeper into a blackass sulk.
at black-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 132: The sadass comic he had seen in the passageway. [Ibid.] 461: They’re getting worried and sadass like everyone else.
at sad-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 235: There’s this guy [...] who’s had a thing about her ever since they were little kids. Writes these deadass letters to her.
at dead-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 135: Hey, Gowens, who you got there, Aunt Jemima?
at Aunt Jemima, n.
[US] (con. late 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 594: But sure picked a fine time to get yourself banged up.
at banged up, adj.1
[US] (con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 138: I ain’t no bargain basement, honey. Cos him same as y’all.
at bargain basement, n.
[US] (con. late 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 650: We’ll just lay in a barrel of those pills you take.
at barrel, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 270: A couple of eager beavers began to chip once more.
at eager beaver, n.
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