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The Rampant Age choose

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[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 305: ‘Drunk, did you say?’ [...] ‘Yeah, drunker’n a dry cop!’.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 176: We can go over to my hang-out and do ’em this aft.
at aft, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 4: You’ll be all-right pool shark – when you grow up.
at all right, adj.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 118: Applesauce! Snap out of it, Paul.
at applesauce!, excl.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 113: Jeesy, country, don’t pass up our Yeast High School special ham sandwich. That sandwich is a bastard – don’t miss it.
at bastard, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 177: He sure musta been a tough bat.
at bat, n.1
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 43: Skeeter’ll be hot rocks when he’s a Senior, betcha.
at betcha!, excl.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 232: Last night, in Buffalo, we blew ourselves to a two-bit hotel.
at two-bit, adj.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 126: You look lonesome, Blondie.
at blondie, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 227: Happy’s giving that all-night stag radio party that he had to postpone [...] It’s time to do a little broadcasting about it.
at broadcast, v.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 18: Their [...] courtship had inspired him to bulldog himself into a position as an assembler in the Thompson Farm Machinery Company.
at bulldog, v.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 213: You mean – steal the bus outa the garage?
at bus, n.2
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 122: I’ve the real Limehouse Blues [...] Learned from the Chinkies, those sad China Blues.
at Chinky, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 12: Fellows who smoked and had hot dates and even got cocked on corn licker! [Ibid.] 26: We could all get cockeder’n hell.
at cocked, adj.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 26: By jiminy Jesus.
at jiminy cricket!, excl.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 223: There’s a wop down on Vine Street puttin’ out dago red for three dollars a gallon. One helluva wallop in the slop, too.
at dago red (n.) under dago, adj.1
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 311: The way you girls do is raise the dickens and bawl a fellow out.
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 43: Lookit young Skeeter Brown steppin’ out with Dirty Gertie. [Ibid.] 73: Dirty Gertie’s the ole red hot rocks.
at dirty gertie (n.) under dirty, adj.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 199: Paul referred to him as a ‘moss-backed dodo’.
at dodo, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 194: Now I’m supposed to neck you, and you’ll neck me, and oh lovey dovey goo-goo.
at lovey-dovey, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 423: Say, ain’t that a dumb dress Miss Botts got on to-day?
at dumb, adj.1
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 311: You like the fast workers, huh?
at fast worker (n.) under fast, adj.1
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 41: He [...] didn’t care whether he passed, flunked or got kicked out.
at flunk, v.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 126: Say, Mom, how about my havin’ a pair of new shoes? These old gunboats are all scuffed up.
at gunboat, n.1
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 319: That worn-out hack!
at hack, n.1
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 27: Hell’s britches!
at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 43: Gee, looky there!
at lookee here!, excl.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 259: Paul hastily hit into a muffin to keep from laughing in her face.
at hit, v.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 135: ‘Will you take a chance on a blind date?’ ‘Hope to shout!’ Paul would also have taken his chances with a gila monster.
at hope to tell you! (excl.) under hope, v.
[UK] R. Carr Rampant Age 11: Come on, Buck, yuh ole horse’s neck!
at horse’s neck (n.) under horse, n.
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