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Cutter and Bone choose

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[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 238: A guilt payment. Because he’s loaded. Because he was 4F.
at 4-F, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 42: I clean up the floor after him and his little Afro friend.
at afro, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 38: People want this guy awful bad.
at awful, adv.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 78: That new rock bar out in Goleta, real big with the kids.
at big, adj.
[US] 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
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 178: Face it, lady. We bombed.
at bomb, v.2
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 23: The one’s a boogie chick, real cute.
at boogie, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 29: Some big old buck nigger prolly do it.
at buck nigger (n.) under buck, adj.1
[US] 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.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 52: A ragtag school of scuba bums was preparing to go into the water.
at bum, n.3
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 199: ‘Gee thanks.’ ‘It’s nothing. Goomba for now.’.
at goom-bye, phr.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 19: ‘Don’t want to hurt myself.’ ‘Chance it.’.
at chance it (v.) under chance, v.
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 242: Just because she [...] didn’t get all choked up about stumps and scar tissue.
at choked, adj.
[US] 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
[US] N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 60: Mo was already coasting on her first downer of the day.
at coast, v.
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