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The Great Santini choose

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[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 391: Yeah, the tow-headed so-and-so with two busted A-holes for eyes.
at a-hole, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 210: Let’s make like horseshit and hit the trail.
at make like an alligator and drag ass (v.) under make like (a)..., v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 255: I have never once in my life given a rat’s fart that I never saw a passenger pigeon.
at not give a rat’s ass, v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 481: This muscle-bound abortion got me to Ravenel from the West Coast?
at abortion, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 315: I want you to be a goddam animal from the time that whistle blows to start that game to the time the buzzer goes to end it.
at animal, n.1
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 399: Hey, Lillian [...] your daughter’s going ape crap out here.
at go apeshit (v.) under apeshit, adj.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 437: That fuckin’ lyin’-ass Jew.
at -ass, sfx
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 312: If I’d known she was giving it away free, I’d have played hide the banana with her myself.
at play (a game of) hide the salami (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 312: If I’d have known she was giving it away free, I’d have played hide the banana with her myself.
at give it away, v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 296: Carol Huger with her perfect smile and her brain the size of a BB or Sally Tomlinson with her perfect everything and her brain the size of a chigger’s eyeball.
at b.b., n.2
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 153: Why do I get hit when some jerk colonel gets on Dad’s back?
at get on someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 233: I want to know which one of you worthless nits had the brass balls to cough when I was talking.
at brass balls, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 313: One thing led to another and before you knew it my big, hairy banana was whistlin’ Dixie when it struck gold in them thar hills.
at banana, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 317: ‘A man in my position has to be pretty selective.’ ‘Oh barf,’ Mary Anne said.
at barf!, excl.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 421: If one of those big bastards [i.e. a bull] gets near me I’m gonna make about ten thousand cheeseburgers out of him.
at bastard, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 233: Beat feet it up here, scumbag. You. Yes. You, scumbag. You beat feet it up here before I tear your fucking legs from your putrid body.
at beat feet (it) (v.) under beat, v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 65: Bellyaching will end as of 0859 hours.
at bellyaching (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 202: You will have yourself a blast.
at blast, n.1
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 404: You got to have a light meal, otherwise you’ll blow your cookies all over the place.
at blow (one’s) cookies, v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 432: What makes you think I was spending time with some blue-gummed nigger girl?
at blue gum(med), adj.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 423: Emma Lee Givens has put out the word that she’s hot for Sammy’s bod.
at bod, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 173: I’m goin’ to keep squeezing on your scrawny little Jewboy neck.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 428: You’ll drool when I’m folding the fifty loaves of bread into my wallet.
at loaf of bread, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 453: It was as though his father had received orders in the night and the Meecham family had broken camp [...] abandoned their house and all their friends.
at break camp (v.) under break, v.1
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 464: I’m going to rearrange your face.
at break someone’s face, v.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 296: Oh, a thousand pardons, little brown-noser.
at brown-noser, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 174: And just what if I don’t let go, bubba.
at bubba, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 423: No offense, Ben, buddy-roo.
at buddy-o (n.) under buddy, n.
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 504: Did you look it up butthole?
at butthole (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 315: You keep your yap buttoned and listen.
at button one’s lip, v.
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