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[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 235: They got a collection of tits and asses and every night [...] they come out and shake them around.
at tits and ass, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 127: I’d seen ass-lickers before, but my God!
at arse-licker (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 239: You can shove it right up.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 197: What a shock it was going to be to this baby when she woke up.
at baby, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 71: She’s too nice a girl to go out with a baloney like that.
at baloney, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 204: Then what’s the big idea making a proposition at like that?
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 268: This guy Terkel is just a big bluff artist.
at bluff artist (n.) under bluff, v.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 254: For that boat of yours, they’d give you a damn nice allowance.
at boat, n.1
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 47: Like she was playing advance man for a travelling boff joint.
at boff joint (n.) under boff, v.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 11: He shrugged, and held up his hands like a boogie singing a spiritual.
at boogie, n.2
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 218: Say, Harry, where’s at the boss of the joint?
at boss, n.2
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 332: Especially not to a sliver-brain like you.
at sliver-brain, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 106: Where to, bud?
at bud, n.1
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 111: ‘The next stop, buddy,’ he said grimly, ‘is the New Bedford.’.
at buddy, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 5: She took another stab at the pals-in-time-of-need bull.
at bull, n.6
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 321: I’m making myself a little bundle.
at bundle, n.1
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 166: Twenty thousand bucks I should give him...Buppkes he’d get.
at bupkes, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 189: I spent my days chiselling chisellers and my nights fighting with a black-haired bitch with big bazookas.
at chisel, v.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 79: I found out what it meant to have eight chisellers fighting and conniving.
at chiseler, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 101: Click, I said to myself.
at click!, excl.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 5: She began angrily, but stopped before the crack passed her lips.
at crack, n.1
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 189: I’d done some crummy things in my day, but I wouldn’t do that.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 33: I’m just all cut up inside with gratitude.
at cut up, v.3
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 166: Which was almost exactly what I suspected, and therefore just dandy.
at dandy, adj.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 15: I’m not just an ordinary dope of a resident buyer.
at dope, n.2
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 255: He’s better looking than I am? He’s got more dough?
at dough, n.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 358: What are you trying to do, duck somebody?
at duck, v.1
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 67: You can still bend a mean ear.
at bend someone’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 334: You’re eppus a lawyer [...] You know something about the rules of evidence.
at eppes, adv.
[US] J. Weidman What’s In It For Me 143: This Armenian... sounded like some new kind of fish.
at fish, n.1
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