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The Adventures of Augie March choose

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[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 184: You got plenty of jig-jig ahead of you before you settle down.
at jig-a-jig, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 82: There isn’t a single bootleg alky truck that goes a mile without being convoyed by a squad car.
at alky, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 173: You little asswipe hoodlum!
at ass-wipe, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 464: Well, you horse’s foot [...] I guess you’re too dumb to make it.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 273: You been balling it somewhere?
at ball it (up) (v.) under ball, v.2
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 36: Tell you? Tell you to keep your barn buttoned.
at barn, n.2
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 48: You’ll see how beanbrained she is.
at beanbrain (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 160: I ate in YMCA cafeterias or one-arm joints and beat checks as often as I could.
at beat, v.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 269: You don’t have to tell me why you don’t put the bee on your brother.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 303: I had to go to the biffy to take a leak.
at biffy, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 275: Kelly Weintraub is spreading a story [...] you took a bim to have an abortion.
at bimbo, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 50: These days Kreindl had operatic nerves and made bitching scenes [...] he threw dishes on the floor and stamped his feet.
at bitching, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 115: I saw from his stiffness that he was getting up an angry blow against me.
at blow-up, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 290: I went along with this rush, really needing some such thing now because of my blowout with Simon.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 115: I took Clem out, and we blew in the money together.
at blow in, v.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 227: His fear in the Bohunk streets was that he would run over a kid.
at bohunk, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 303: [...] watched by them [...] with booby-hatch glares. [Ibid.] 458: The booby-hatch voices would scream, sing, and chirp.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 140: So to speak, reserved for the brass, the Frenchel heiresses.
at brass, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 81: This kid is a buddy of mine and he works for my bro.
at bro, n.1
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 53: He didn’t like to see my bubble-headed friends get me in dutch.
at bubbleheaded, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 39: Tommy sent us to his bucket-shop stockbroker.
at bucket shop, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 45: A jail sentence, head shaven, fed on slumgullion, mustered in the mud, buffaloed and bossed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 501: I was once bugs on the history of art.
at bugs on (adj.) under bugs, adj.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 127: Bushwah, you’re the one she looks at all the time.
at bushwa!, excl.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 149: Oh, fooey, no. What bushwah! Love, shmuv!
at bushwa, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 106: The Commissioner died before the general bust.
at bust, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 221: Shut up! [...] C—sucker! I asked him, not you, budinski!
at buttinski, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 508: Now [...] listen attentively. I don’t like to chew my cabbage twice.
at boil one’s cabbage twice (v.) under cabbage, n.2
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 62: John Dingbat O’Berta, the candy kid of city politics.
at candy kid, n.
[US] S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 133: During the fights Renling didn’t holler or carry on, but he ate them up.
at carry on, v.
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