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[US] TV Guide 13–19 Oct. 4: Randolph Churchill...has told friends his embarrassment is assuaged by past goof-ups among English men of letters [OED].
at goof up, n.
[US] TV Guide 38/2: A pale, blonde, attractive girl who was described in The New York Times as: ‘Aristocratic whistle bait’.
at whistle bait (n.) under whistle, n.
[US] TV Guide 14 Nov. 19: But a bleeping censor [...] walked in to tell us our little wreck was too horrible [HDAS].
at bleeping, adj.
[US] TV Guide 22 Mar. 1/1: Jim peck, our lip-smacking host, prods for lascivious details. ‘He’s really handsy’.
at handsy (adj.) under hand, n.1
[US] TV Guide 7 Nov. 6: But although their standards and practices permitted the words ‘prophylactic’ and ‘contraceptive’ [on a network TV program], and even a student who calls a condom a ‘love glove,’ the word ‘condom’ was not allowed [HDAS].
at love glove (n.) under love, n.
[US] TV Guide 37 161: If only boys weren't such ‘goober brains!’.
at goober-brain (n.) under goober, n.1
[US] TV Guide 17 June 18: Others flock here too: Jamaican Jack-boys — rip-off artists armed with MAC-10 submachine guns [HDAS].
at jack-boy (n.) under jack, n.17
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