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[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 152: The three of us [...] were in the cook shack, putting away sow belly, beans, flapjacks.
at sow-belly, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 318: I had [...] what I wanted out of life – to be a kingpin in this terrific business, to have money, to be a shot.
at big shot, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth 32: She made me take a drink from the water bubbler, then squeezed my hand.
at bubbler, n.2
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 152: The cook went bug-eyed.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 174: My fingers kept working the combo.
at combo, n.2
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 50: Lina began flapping her dress to give herself air. Then she got the cutes and asked if that was allowed.
at cutes, the, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 17: The cutie pies got eighty cents a Sunday for doing it.
at cutie-pie, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 313: I didn’t see the dinner rated all the whoopdedo that Hannah gave it.
at whoop-de-do, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 50: A lot of dogs, butter, ground meat, pop and stuff on hand.
at dog, n.2
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 288: I said to myself: Dog it. You never saw Hosey.
at dog!, excl.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 208: Dope. Soup. To kill the bugs [...] we put it in the tank and squirt it on the trees.
at dope, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 343: He figured they might not like it to see her picture on every doughboy’s shoulder.
at doughboy, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 317: He’s a duck.
at duck, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 211: If I put down any more booze, I’ll fold.
at fold, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 307: He’d been half gagging up to them, but all of a sudden he got serious.
at gag, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 171: We didn’t [...] stop to take long ganders.
at take a gander (at) (v.) under gander, n.3
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 216: He was like most other hard-rock men, shy on the inside as a young girl.
at hardrock, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 163: I piled after her hell to split.
at hell to split (adv.) under hell, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 321: I tell you that’s all hokey-pokey.
at hokey-pokey, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 207: ‘I’m the guy.’ ‘Holy jumping ...’.
at holy jumping...!, excl.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 213: Hot pants, cold heart.
at hot pants, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 161: I bawled him out for the filthy jungle buzzard that he was.
at jungle buzzard (n.) under jungle, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 242: Lollygagging all over the place.
at lallygag, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 208: Dope. Soup. To kill the bugs [...] we put it in the tank and squirt it on the trees.
at soup, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Moth (1950) 317: She’s still torching for you?
at torch (for) (v.) under torch, v.
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