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[US] R. Bissell High Water 90: I didn’t care if anybody else was around with me standing there bare ass in front of the galley stove.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] R. Bissell High Water 79: A bughouse Hamlet is an old boy who is all the time reciting Shakespeare.
at bughouse, adj.1
[US] R. Bissell High Water 91: What’s the big god-damn idea staging a fight here in the galley?
at god-damn, adj.
[US] R. Bissell High Water 94: He had been pulling all this stuff for years and getting away with it, which just shows what a grand and glorious country of opportunity for hamburgerheads we got.
at hamburger, n.
[US] R. Bissell High Water 157: We will have to hump to get through Canton tomorrow, though, by God.
at hump, v.1
[US] R. Bissell High Water 92: I walked out in the pea soup.
at peasouper, n.
[US] R. Bissell High Water 91: That will teach you some manners, maybe, you Chicago polecat.
at polecat, n.
[US] R. Bissell High Water 122: He hauled out a big turnip of a watch.
at turnip, n.
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