1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 238: A guilt payment. Because he’s loaded. Because he was 4F.at 4-F, adj.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 74: He [...] came out with Mo’s bottle of Lavoris, which he proceeded to chugalug, gargling it and spitting it into a dead potted cactus.at chug-a-lug, v.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 20: They think their poor dear Maureen took one acid trip too many.at acid trip (n.) under acid, n.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 9: So the old stomach acts up again — so you get wound up — so what?at act up, v.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 42: I clean up the floor after him and his little Afro friend.at afro, n.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 6: The two of them sitting here warts and all in the crummy motel room.at warts and all, phr.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 305: Old Humperdinck, he don’t just pay the price, he ups the ante. He can’t wait to pay.at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 42: I’m not on your back, am I, Rich?at on someone’s back (adj.) under back, n.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 9: ‘Think I wouldn’t do it?’ ‘I think you would.’ ‘You bet your ass.’.at bet one’s (sweet) ass (v.) under bet, v.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 207: Oh you love him now, now when you’re the Big Enchilada and he needs you every hour of the day.at big enchilada (n.) under big, adj.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 78: That new rock bar out in Goleta, real big with the kids.at big, adj.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 308: It was too early yet to say whether what he had was a genuine psychotic depressive reaction or just some sorta blue funk.at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 87: He wasn’t, you know, what you’d call pretty-boy handsome. But he was good looking, all right.at pretty-boy, n.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 44: Money [...] That’s what we got to talk about, kid. Bread. The staff of life.at bread, n.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 79: So naturally he broke his ass for me, told me all he could.at break one’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 158: Thanks largely to Cutter’s increasingly go-for-broke attitude even breakfast [...] had totaled ten-fifty.at go-for-broke, adj.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 169: I said it was his big chance to make Brownie points with the old man.at brownie point, n.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 29: Some big old buck nigger prolly do it.at buck nigger (n.) under buck, adj.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 39: Bone saw one of the secretaries in the bullpen area nod to a young woman sitting next to her desk.at bullpen, n.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 52: A ragtag school of scuba bums was preparing to go into the water.at bum, n.3
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 287: There would be grass growing in the streets of this fucking burg this summer.at burg, n.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 295: He thanked the deputy for the lift and told him not to brood about busting his head the way he had.at bust, v.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 199: ‘Gee thanks.’ ‘It’s nothing. Goomba for now.’.at goom-bye, phr.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 19: ‘Don’t want to hurt myself.’ ‘Chance it.’.at chance it (v.) under chance, v.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 242: Just because she [...] didn’t get all choked up about stumps and scar tissue.at choked, adj.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 179: You just sort of rise up out of yourself, you know, like a chopper, lifting right up out of there.at chopper, n.1
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 60: Mo was already coasting on her first downer of the day.at coast, v.