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[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 84: Buddy was about to get into the old A-model.
at A, n.1
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 143: ‘I never even done it before,’ said Laverne. ‘No lie?’ said Ken. ‘Well, I’m a monkey’s uncle.’.
at I’m a nigger, phr.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 91: He had a hundred and eleven dollars in the bank, and that ain’t hay.
at that ain’t hay, phr.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 141: Baby-rape will land you in the hoosegow.
at baby-rape, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 134: What say we put on the feedbag at Wong’s Gardens?
at put on the feed bag (v.) under feed bag, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 61: She was there with another girl [...] a beast who had pimples and wore glasses.
at beast, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 169: Some yellow-belly sapsucker send you a poison-pen letter?
at yellow belly, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 149: That’s bushwa and you know it.
at bushwa, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 94: He assailed the buttinsky. ‘Goddam, you stupid twerp!’.
at buttinski, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 144: I’d like to jazz you for old times’ sake but the cannon’s full of rust.
at cannon, n.1
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 154: Laverne smiled sweetly and said: ‘Go piss up a rope, you cheap wop.’ He nodded politely. ‘Cocklicker.’.
at cocksucker, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 163: Ralph walked through a cowpie.
at cow pie (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 154: His face against her cheek was [...] smelling not of crappy barber’s bay rum but some classy aftershave.
at crappy, adj.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 156: You been married since the Year One.
at year dot (n.) under dot, n.2
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 161: Sometimes he went at it so ardently in bed, despite the rubber, the head of his little dummy was chafed.
at dummy, n.3
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 93: ‘Should I go right now?’ ‘Well, I think so,’ the butcher said, winking, ‘unless you want to go in the icebox and beat your dummy.’.
at beat one’s/the dummy (v.) under dummy, n.3
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 202: He turned out to be a real rotten egg.
at egg, n.2
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 91: I don’t wanna to see you standing around with your finger up your rear end.
at rear end, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 184: Recalling Ralph’s walking through the cowflop.
at flop, n.6
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 143: ‘Hell fire,’ said he in irritation. ‘It’s too late for a toot on the skin flute. Lay off!’.
at skin flute, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 90: Why, you old goat!
at goat, n.1
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 91: He had a hundred and eleven dollars in the bank, and that ain’t hay.
at that ain’t hay under hay, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 161: The little piss-willie who delivered groceries [...] whom she was idly amused to heat up.
at heat up, v.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 217: The whole hoof was red and puffy from its hours of confinement in a shoe one size too small.
at hoof, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 92: What happened to Horse? He flush himself down the kibo?
at kybo, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 210: See you still walk like you got a load in your pants.
at load, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 142: ‘Squeeze,’ said he. ‘That’s my love muscle.’.
at love muscle (n.) under love, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 141: Ken Canning winking at me? He was doing it all night [...] He’s a real masher.
at masher, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 214: Soon’s you play a little tune on my meat whistle.
at meat whistle (n.) under meat, n.
[US] T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 210: Kid, you look like a million onna hoof.
at look (like) a million dollars (v.) under million, n.
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