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A Walk on the Wild Side choose

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[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 9: Drunk as a dog or broke as a beggar, Fitz could spout religion like a hog in a bucket of slops.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 258: They jumped on my feet. They slapped my ears till I couldn’t hear. They put the glare in my eyes and held the lids open [...] but I aced it.
at ace, v.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 120: Fort crumpled the want-ads.
at ad, n.1
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 72: Mama went on the wagon to show them she meant it when she said she wanted me back. Got a crowd of ex-alkies to back her so I had to go.
at alky, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 132: One little down-and-out bum of a Raggedy Ann with patches on her skirt.
at down-and-out, adj.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 99: Scarcely-twenties looking for a daddy, any old daddy who’d tell them where to lie down.
at any old, adj.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 199: What would you call it, Mr. Bigass? A possum up a telegraph pole?
at big ass, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 218: The king [...] bounded one short confident step forward, pitched himself ass over appetite, beaned himself beautifully on the table’s edge and crushed flat, shoulders shaking.
at ass over appetite under ass, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 161: ‘How tall are you, Shorty?’ [...] ‘About ass-high to a tall Indian.’.
at ass-high under ass, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 78: I’m so tired of kickin’ asses I just think I’ll start crushing skulls.
at kick ass, v.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 161: Anyone who says I ever hit any woman with anything bigger than a small housebrick is a coon-assed liar.
at coon-assed, adj.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 188: Mama came forth with forehead shining, bandanna and broom, all sweat and Aunt Jemima, in the peppermint apron that hung like candy.
at Aunt Jemima, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 36: City unions teach you that Chinamens are your brothers! Ayrabs! Mexes!
at Ayrab, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 172: Say you don’t go for cokes, you’re on hard liquor. Okay, be a B-broad and get drunk every night.
at B-girl, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 9: The only fun Fitz had left was getting his back up.
at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 63: Never seed a toilet till I was seventeen year old. I’d heard of backhouses but never seed one.
at backhouse (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 7: Whites called them ‘white trash’ and Negroes ‘po’ buckra’.
at backra, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 93: Hungry young hustlers hustle dissatisfied old cats and ancient glass-eyed satyrs make passes at bandrats.
at band rat (n.) under band, n.2
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 126: Luke ducked around the rear of a negro shanty and returned with a pint of Bottled-in-the-Barn.
at bottled in the barn, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 218: The king [...] bounded one short confident step forward, pitched himself ass over appetite, beaned himself beautifully on the table’s edge and crushed flat, shoulders shaking.
at bean, v.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 64: The hant had put on a greasy beany.
at beanie, n.1
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 73: I had thirty-two days wrestling with the bear so I worked on myself to keep from getting even crazier.
at bear, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 259: I listened and pleaded guilty to two of them bum beefs.
at bum beef (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 67: I’m a big-league kid from a big-league town.
at big-league, adj.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 81: Old-time sterno drinkers and bindlestiff nomads made the flophouse a forenoon murky with their hard-time breath.
at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 16: They [...] boasted of their time in jail. Hard time and easy, wall time and farm time, fed time and state, city time, county time, short time and good time, soft time and jawbone time, big house, little house and middle house time, industrial time and meritorious time — ‘that’s for working your ass off’.
at soft bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 16: He turned the smoking bitch lamp low.
at bitch, n.2
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 143: You go on the blink with me and I give you my word of honor [...] the day we get a stake we throw away the glasses.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 255: Blow wise to this, friend [...] it’s always easier to convict a man of something he didn’t do.
at blow, v.1
[US] N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 243: The parlor was full of the boys in blue and someone smashed the glass of the juke.
at boys in blue, n.
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