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The Young Wolves choose

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[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 130: I suppose in the spring he’ll be cutting the grass and what all.
at what-all, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 75: She had that ‘balling-out’ tone in her voice.
at bawling out, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 133: With the horn blaring he couldn’t enjoy the big raves any more.
at big, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 89: I’m on the athletic scholarship committee, a bird dog for State.
at bird dog, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 32: We’re a couple of early birds again, huh?
at early bird, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 37: She wore a pert little pill-box fur hat and an open fur coat.
at pill-box, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 118: How come you gotta say ‘money’? Can’tcha be modern and say ‘vitamins’ or ‘bread’ or somethin’ like that?
at bread, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 53: Let’s break out of here. Steaks at the Highway Hangout.
at break out, v.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 69: ‘I’m a flop, aren’t I?’ ‘No,’ Roy said broodily.
at broody, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 54: He reached into the glove compartment and found a flashlight. ‘Candy?’ Janet asked. ‘Good. Open it up.’ Cliff heard her. He laughed. ‘Yeah — candy.’.
at candy, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 137: I give a little gift of appreciation and what happens? A cat fight.
at cat fight (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 52: Somebody cleaned the till. No witnesses.
at clean, v.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 134: ‘We showed those hicks who’s boss out of town, didn’t we, chum?’ He yawned. ‘They climbed all over you,’ Roy agreed.
at climb all over (v.) under climb, v.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 71: You got my combo out of Chief’s office, didn’t ya?
at combo, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 106: I got a winning combo and I want to keep it that way.
at combo, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 129: He’s got connections, and they kinda try to look after me. As a favour to him.
at connection, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 71: ‘I’m a coolie, Cliff.’ ‘Who put ya up to it?’ ‘You know I don’t belong to any gang, Cliff.’.
at coolie, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 131: Where could I have lost them? All of them! Chief’s---hell and damnation.
at damnation!, excl.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 41: You’re the best dang-bang manager I ever had.
at dang, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 11: They could look after her all they wanted to and deal him out of it.
at deal someone in (v.) under deal, v.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 138: Go ahead, ask me to drop a dime. See what ya get.
at drop a dime (v.) under dime, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 112: [He] begun to think of all the dirty things he knew about the old guy. Being on the defensive with Chief, ready to use anything against him.
at dirty, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 6: ‘Howdy-do-dee,’ Pa muttered clownishly. He bowed.
at howdy do, phr.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 17: I’ve had my eye on you for quite a hang-doodle of a long time.
at hang-doodle, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 82: You’re too easy. Just chicken hearted.
at easy, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 20: If those eggheads give you any trouble let me know.
at egghead, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 134: Those farmers. They coulda used that time better tryin’ to score.
at farmer, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 128: He saw Cliff’s hand slip into his jacket where he kept the sixth finger.
at sixth finger, n.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 134: ‘You know, I didn’t foul out once.’ ‘You were good, Cliff.’.
at foul out, v.
[US] E. De Roo Young Wolves 50: ‘My parents are fractured. He’s a love and very generous, but he doesn’t come around very often. Lives in Chicago.’ ‘Oh, that’s too bad.’ He had been taught to think of divorce as worse than death.
at fractured, adj.
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