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[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 58: You’re a straight-ahead guy.
at straight-ahead, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 175: She was all-time, that redhead!
at all-time, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 59: I got twenty on the Celts and right now Magic’s shovin the ball up their ass!
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 187: I’m gonna have our boss write you guys an attaboy.
at attaboy, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 172: The harbor jetty [...] was jammed with kids daring the reeeelyawesome waves that sometimes roar to twelve feet.
at awesome, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 113: That’s what we’re here for, baby!
at baby, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 154: Winnie was bagged enough to buy everyone a round of beers.
at bagged, adj.3
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 252: I’m a real balls-up guy.
at balls-up, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 68: Gone! Stolen by that barrel of guts! That heartless, three-hundred-pound monster.
at barrel, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 295: They come and go like grunion, these beach bums.
at beach bum (n.) under beach, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 185: I was figurin he probably called in to beef me.
at beef, v.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 113: They need some big beef out here to bust all these Newport Beach felonies.
at beef, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 280: The new bank he founded went belly up.
at belly up, adj.2
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 268: Buster bellied up and said, ‘Gimme a Wild Turkey, Spoon. And Polish vodka for Winnie’.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 108: Buster, still staring at the pile of money, said, ‘That’s a lot of Ben Franklins.’ [Ibid.] 109: Let’s just let him tuck his Franklins back in the safe.
at Ben Franklin, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 46: Tess got stuck in a traffic jam [...] caused by a two-car fender bender.
at fender-bender, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 171: Apartment houses that charge big bucks to short-term tourists.
at big bucks, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 361: I knew how you’d go on a guilt binge when you didn’t save a drowning man because you were drunk.
at binge, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 34: Bitching about the yesteryear music on the jukebox.
at bitch, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 348: I looked down the barrel more than once. I truly wanted to bite it. Now maybe I wanna live.
at bite it (v.) under bite, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 54: Slam dunkin these little two-oh and five-oh dopers. Endin up with kibbles ’n’ bits.
at kibbles & bits, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 151: Can’t you jist see me all blissed out over a new study on slime moulds?
at bliss out, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 149: The city attorney didn’t think a waiver’d hold up if my herniated disks really blew out later.
at blow out, v.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 86: She’d gotten by with the furniture that Ralph Cunningham gave her when he’d bolted.
at bolt, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 172: A legendary site for body surfers and boogie-boarders.
at boogie board (n.) under boogie, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 30: Every time you’re tempted to booze it up.
at booze up, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 54: Went to the movies [...] Tedious. Brat-pack stuff.
at brat pack, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 38: She wore those round, no bullshit, yuppie eyeglasses.
at no-bullshit (adj.) under bullshit, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 56: Burnout. Stress. Same old story.
at burnout, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 107: You want us to cap him and dump him in the bay?
at cap, v.7
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