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The Wizard of La-La Land choose

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[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 136: Am I embarrassing you or are you just getting all hot and bothered?
at all hot and bothered, phr.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 148: Now that I see the neighborhood I’d say an anglo named Gotch might even be unforgettable.
at anglo, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 110: All the thin-lipped, tight-assed eunuchs and professional virgins gloating over things that happen to people.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 208: I start yelling a fucking faggot rapist is trying to pull my joint under the fucking table, your ass’s going to be grass.
at one’s ass is grass under ass, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 18: In spite of the kick-in-the-ass jumpstart Joseph Campbell’s PBS series had given them.
at kick-ass, adj.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 100: How he would have liked to get these bastards off his back before they started in on him.
at get off someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 98: Nixon, they say, went off laughing fit to beat the band.
at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 223: There’s no booze in it, just water. It’s my beard when I’m pretending to be on the sauce.
at beard, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 16: The Big Two had been Rialto’s war and Canaan’s war. Vietnam had been Bosco Silverlake’s war.
at Big Two, the, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 213: ‘So, was Kenny a recruiter?’ ‘He might have done some of that, but mostly he was a bird dog.’.
at bird dog, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 133: A twangy boy’s a male who sells his ass for the carnal delectation and entertainment of men of the homosexual persuasion but claims not to be a homosexual himself.
at twangy boy, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 224: What was I supposed to do, bust him or bend over?
at bust, v.1
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 20: She wasn’t six feet tall, blonde and superbusty.
at busty, adj.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 64: Sophisticates who [...] pretended to be amused by the childish rigmarole, the camp worship of Satan.
at camp, adj.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 19: Nobody except Mary Bucket, the nurse who was head of the graveyard shift [...] knew that Diana Corday, the candy striper, was a hooker.
at candystriper (n.) under candy, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 19: Her brother, Harry, copped her cherry when she’d been thirteen.
at cop a cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 197: What’d you find over this Gotch’s crash?
at crash-pad, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 10: Kropotnik was sixteen and already a notorious fageleh in the neighborhood.
at feigele, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 124: His feet, in size fourteen felony flyers, were up on [...] the desk.
at felony shoes, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 210: Straight or gay, it’s usually the femme who plays the tune and the men who dance to it.
at femme, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 195: ‘You fogging out on us, Whistler?’ he heard one of the detectives say.
at fog out (v.) under fog, v.1
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 1: He proved to be better at fronting for bimbos [...] than at making a living with cards.
at front for (v.) under front, v.2
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 120: Figuring it would impress this gazooney more than a verbal introduction.
at gazooney, n.2
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 161: A half-pint microwave probably used for nothing more than TV dinners.
at half-pint, adj.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 16: Looking for a tumble in the hay with the bitch goddess Success.
at roll in the hay, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 75: The hand gives me hell every now and then.
at give someone hell (v.) under hell, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 60: Women ready to spread thighs, suck joints, swing from chandeliers, do anything anywhere, anyhow, any time.
at joint, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 165: ‘Lucifer’s.’ ‘The kink club down on the beach above Malibu?’.
at kink, n.3
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 14: Medical mavens hanging around gentry’s Coffee Shop — where there was always at least one expert on any human belief, profession, pastime, or enterprise — maintained that something had shocked his pituitary.
at maven, n.
[US] R. Campbell Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 195: He was on Rialto like a dog on a bone when we jailed him overnight.
at on, prep.
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