1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 412: What a wind! It come rippin’ hell’s bells outa the north as big as all outadoors.at all outdoors, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 407: I been busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the nettle rash.at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 271: The b-girl retaliates by conking him over the head.at B-girl, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1998) 55: We had two kids — whap bang! — before she even knew what hit her, and for a couple of years there it was pretty fantastic.at whap bang!, excl.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 97: I’d go do it tonight, if I wasn’t so bodaciously whacked.at bodaciously, adv.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 651: If you ain’t the all-starten skittiest crittur in all Hail Columbia!at hail Columbia, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 271: The b-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle.at conk, v.2
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 615: The 30th First lady of the Land and the prettiest in a coon’s age.at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 92: Uncle Sam cranks up the Voice of America wattage to stimulate new riots.at crank, v.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 517: And that word ‘integer’ was a jimdandy, too!at jim dandy, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 411: No more time-outs, son, it’s [...] root-hog-or-die-time!at root, hog or die, v.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 592: We don’t need no more of your hissin’ and blowin’ and generally discombobulatin’ splutterations!at discombobulate, v.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 105: Willis Robertson, yellow-dog Democrat from Virginia.at yellow dog, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 170: Greenglass, by comparison, was just some dumbnuts YCL on-the-make Army kid.at dumbnuts (adj.) under dumb, adj.1
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 116: Those squonks can haul off and (puff!) exfluncticate [...] the whole durn shootin’ match.at exflunct, v.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 436: Here’s spit in your eye, son!at here’s mud in your eye!, excl.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 245: Is Richard Nixon a Farting Quacker who dreamt of selling his pajamas at Coney Island?at farting, adj.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 256: Just what the Rosenbergs had to look forward to. ‘Flaming Reds’, the papers called them.at flaming, adj.1
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 115: So that was why I had been accused of the secret slush fund!at slush fund, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 431: ‘Hey, zorch, man!’ his hepcat fans holler — which is fuzzbeard lingo for the ‘colossal!’ of their folks’ generation.at fuzzface (n.) under fuzz, n.2
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 168: Maybe the FBI had told David that they already had the goods on Ethel and Julius.at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 446: ‘Great balls of fire!’ he whoops.at great balls of fire! (excl.) under great...!, excl.