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[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 26: The dealer had copped a plea in return for fingering his clients.
at cop a plea, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 39: Down at Precinct One, they went apeshit. A quadruple slaying meant pictures in the paper, prime-time TV.
at go apeshit (v.) under apeshit, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 50: The former acid-head, sack artist and lead guitar manque was now a highly paid sound technician.
at -artist, sfx
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 26: We had blow-ups like that all the time, and they didn’t faze us.
at blow-up, n.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 6: Well, screw ’em, bunch of FOB’s!
at bunch, n.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 7: The el cheapo digital watch his dad had got free at some gas station.
at el cheapo, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 27: We’d beaten the system yet again, put one over on the whole Establishment crock of shit.
at crock of shit, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 156: Even the geeks at that dirtball motel are going to remember that!
at dirtball, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 43: Wayne and Dawn have been duking it out again, which is why the call went out as a domestic.
at domestic, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 51: The duds he had on looked like they cost more than my car.
at duds, n.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 43: Wayne and Dawn have been duking it out again, which is why the call went out as a domestic.
at duke it out (v.) under duke, v.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 129: I mean this little gal could eat corn through a picket fence and they were still all over her like stink on shit.
at could eat an apple through a picket fence under eat, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 6: Jamie bet Chinese people would rather commit hari-kiri or whatever it was than throw a scene like this in front of guests. Well, screw ’em, bunch of FOB’s! This is America. Deal with it.
at f.o.b., n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 26: We’d be buggered and beaten up by redneck cons who thought hippies were faggot commie scum.
at faggot, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 21: While the mother is waiting for the water to heat, she decides to fix up.
at fix up, v.2
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 26: Now they would strip-search us, do a rectal frisk and pack us off to the state pen.
at frisk, n.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 29: How are we supposed to get fucked up now you’ve cleaned out the stash?
at fucked up, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 6: You won’t play fair! [...] You’ll make me be it and then goof off somewhere I can’t find you!
at goof off, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 60: There’s about twenty of us hanging out there.
at hang out, v.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 29: ‘Holy fuck!’ said Greg.
at holy fuck! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 26: Straight people might get hung up on disagreements and dissent, but we knew it was all in your head.
at hung up, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 5: Three paces behind came Ronnie Ho, looking polite and concerned as always. What a jerk!
at jerk, n.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 18: This gave the car salesmen the jitters. If the house got busted their careers would be over.
at jitters, the, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 58: I frowned. Once again he’d thrown me for a loop.
at throw for a loop (v.) under loop, n.2
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 9: Maybe a dollar was the price Kevin was prepared to pay to get his little squirt of a brother out of the loop for fifteen minutes.
at out of the loop under loop, n.2
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 45: Then there’s the MO [...] This guy sounds like a violent slob, a wife-beater. You’d expect him to use a shotgun.
at m.o., n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 15: Jamie broke into sobs. ‘I’m feeling weirded out. Like totally.’.
at weird out, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 21: It was another repressive pre-emptive strike at the drug culture of which the power-trippers in Washington were rightly terrified.
at power-trip, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 26: Vince said he knew the dealer, though, and it was bound to be good shit whatever it was.
at shit, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Dark Spectre (1996) 7: He knew there had to be a catch, and he was determined not to be suckered by the older boys.
at sucker, v.
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