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The Glitter Dome choose

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[US] Dome (U. of Notre Dame Yearbook) n.p.: Talk about the poor suffering Belgians — you should have slanted the Hotel-de-Gink whereat we registered. The place had been used successively as a morgue, an ice house and a harness shop. Of late, it was chiefly a home for indigent parasites.
at hotel de gink, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 75: It’s a four-five-nine in progress, Buckmore! Let’s hit it!
at 459, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 205: She’s the seventeen-year-old daughter of a nickeldime bookie owns a restaurant on Sunset.
at nickel-and-dime, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 62: You can’t believe it. They’re animals!
at animal, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 289: I was getting antsy around here in the house all the time.
at antsy, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 85: The happy Ferret leaped into the nark ark as the Weasel yelled, ‘Let’s get on it!’.
at ark, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 73: Get your ass outa there, lil sis.
at ass, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 96: We’re up to our ass in alligators.
at up to one’s ass in alligators under ass, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 236: That Lloyd was bad news.
at bad news, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 248: He was more than half bagged.
at bagged, adj.3
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 181: Nobody would pick up anybody as barfy-looking as you.
at barfy (adj.) under barf, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 42: The unyielding brass bean of the chubby Chinese deity.
at bean, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 46: It wasn’t as though it was some big-deal homicide anyway.
at big deal, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 188: Earthquake! Earthquake! [...] This is the biggy they predicted!
at biggie, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome 173: She had blindsided him with that kiss. It was the last thing he expected.
at blindside, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 63: ‘BLOOO-EEE!’ Herman III yelled.
at blooey!, excl.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 63: Imagine what everyone would say if he helped solve the murder [...] It’d blow their minds. It blew his mind just thinking about it.
at blow someone’s mind, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 13: I reeeeel-ly like mature detectives as opposed to cocky young bluesuits.
at blue suit (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 15: You don’t hear such politeness from those young bluecoats.
at bluecoat, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 154: A 25-million-dollar movie that was boffo in six openings.
at boffo, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 254: Jesus, around here he felt like his old man must have felt as a bogtrotter at Ellis Island.
at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 18: Wing [...] hopped down the bar toward a bombed-out kiddy cop from Hollenbeck.
at bombed out, adj.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 80: The fact was that someone was trying to drive Captain Woofer bonzo.
at bonzo, adj.2
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 57: A lot of those old dudes were too tough to let him slash away at their boodle.
at boodle, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 98: The gook who boogied.
at boogie, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 102: The bearded young cop with boozy breath.
at boozy, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 50: A boulevard cowboy named William Bonney Anderson, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, had blown away three good citizens of Hollywood.
at boulevard cowboy (n.) under boulevard, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 190: I never bought no typewriters from boulevard junkies!
at boulevard junkie (n.) under boulevard, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 50: Schultz even let the Weasel rub his crewcut for luck before hitting the bricks.
at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 118: Then two bluesuits had to go and bring in a bubblegummer.
at bubble-gummer, n.
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