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[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 30: Don’t dog me around, Ace.
at dog around, v.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 132: ‘Hey, Stroke,’ he said. ‘Well, kiss my ass. How you, Dock?’.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 101: Cousin Ned was right. Yer going to grow up to be a real ass-buster.
at ass-buster, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 249: They stage a few bad-ass, no-account races for trophies.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 94: What he meant was that yer gonna grow up into a regular kiss-my-ass, mean bugger.
at kiss-my-ass, adj.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 151: The waitress [...] pulled a pencil out of her beehive hairdo.
at beehive, n.2
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 174: You bet your little bottom I’m going to win the race.
at bet one’s (sweet) ass (v.) under bet, v.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 152: They were both blasting down this little two-laner.
at blast, v.1
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 155: Pretty soon that gearshift is going to boogaloo right over where even I can’t reach it.
at boogaloo, v.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 59: Any place else, and the idea is to not bung up your car. Not Darlington.
at bung up, v.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 177: He’ll bust his ass getting there to race you.
at bust one’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 154: Man, those humpties and hayshakers all over the South just love demolition derbies.
at humpty-dumpty, n.2
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 35: Joe-Jack was a dynamite driver and he was really hanging it out every time he came around.
at hang it out, v.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 154: Man, those humpties and hayshakers all over the South just love demolition derbies.
at hay-shaker (n.) under hay, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 235: I brought the wheel around again and then really zapped the hell out of it.
at hell, the, phr.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 148: The rest of them came howling up, fishtailing to beat hell.
at beat hell (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 158: ‘Hellfire,’ the old man would say.
at hell!, excl.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 135: Stroker! Is that you, honey-babe?
at honey-baby (n.) under honey, n.1
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 52: ‘I swan,’ he says.
at I swan, phr.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 213: ‘F-u-c-k-i-n-g I-n-d-i-a-n,’ he said.
at Indian, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 147: The rolling thundercrack of sound came jazzing along behind it.
at jazz around (v.) under jazz, v.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 269: Them fucking natives won’t give up and there’s a bout a jillion of them.
at jillion, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 16: I tugged down my fireproof Nomex longjohn underwear.
at long johns, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 154: He [...] let it slide right into the wall. Ka-boom!
at kaboom!, excl.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 233: Ka-blam! There was a sudden belch of blackish smoke.
at ker-, pfx
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 64: Ed raised one hand and waggled all his fingers at the lawman.
at lawman (n.) under law, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 94: I’m what they call a two-timer. That is: I get caught out there one more time with a load of stuff and they haul my ass away to jail for good. I done lost two times now. The third one is it.
at two-time loser, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 232: He’s gonna blow the engine. He’s gonna lunch that sumbitch right about here [...] And Demon did.
at lunch, v.1
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 158: A couple of moonshiners were passing.
at moonshiner, n.
[US] S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 143: A really big-mother racing helmet. [Ibid.] 155: He puts them into this big-mother van.
at mother, adj.
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