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You Bright and Risen Angels choose

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[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 51: Now things were rolling, that was as sure as bears shit in the woods.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 315: My thought was to [...] get them indebted to us arse over ears.
at arse over ears under arse, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 210: He’s a softass out to screw up you and me and our ideals.
at soft ass, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 325: The weirdo beardo him fucking self.
at beardie weirdie, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 243: The coeds had the greatest split beavers in the whole U.S. of A.
at split beaver (n.) under beaver, n.1
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 239: We can excuse a young man pulling a boner now and then.
at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 157: Following one of the girls who had drunk too much bug juice.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 314: Here’s how we clean out their cush, their C-notes and megs, their deemers and crisp green bumblebees.
at bumblebee, n.3
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 78: Mr. White would call us cornballs and darned old sourpusses.
at cornball, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 329: The country pumpkin-headed cornholes get some cheap sophistication.
at cornhole, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 48: His field glasses were finally starting to get kinda crapped up.
at crap up (v.) under crap, v.2
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 76: He’s making crib notes or mebbe playing pocket pool.
at crib, n.3
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 43: What the bloody cunting hell, a man had to go on.
at cunting (adj.) under cunt, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 314: Here’s how we clean out their cush, their C-notes and megs, their deemers and crisp green bumblebees.
at cush, n.1
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 325: All that engineering static and circuitous circuitry razzle-dazzle.
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 314: Here’s how we clean out their cush, their C-notes and megs, their deemers and crisp green bumblebees.
at deemer, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 60: You prick-nosed stingy yellowdog.
at yellow dog, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 313: Little evasions like when you beat the donicker* [*A con whereby two men ride a train on one ticket, one of them hiding in the W.C.].
at donicker, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 61: Everybody’ll be buyin’ electric do-dads and dildoes and humdingers.
at doodad, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 314: This one’s a guaranteed drop-in.
at drop-in (n.) under drop, v.1
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 313: They won’t have nary a fin or a sawbuck to get home on.
at fin, n.2
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 313: Then we get the flatfeet to clear the book on them.
at flatfoot, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 326: The smell of an old fleabag cat.
at fleabag, adj.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 331: Usually I charge a dollar a kiss and an extra fifty cents for tongue, but you can French me for nothing.
at French, v.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 315: I want you to get those goombahs out of here.
at goombah, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 333: Who knows what forces the guy might have [...] ready to come to his rescue if Wayne punches his gourd.
at gourd, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 329: The country pumpkin-headed cornholes get some cheap sophistication.
at pumpkin-headed, adj.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 337: ‘I’m from Cooverville, Indiana.’ [...] ‘Goddamn Hoosier’.
at hoosier, n.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 206: You jerkwater walleye that thinks you’re a swimming pool tough.
at jerkwater, adj.
[US] W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 325: This was K.O. on the O.K.
at k.o., n.
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