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[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 105: He could be a little odd [...] but nothing like this. Bob was a hardass. [Ibid.] 183: You’re funny when you try to be a hardass.
at hard-ass, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 98: My asshole boyfriend’s in San Antone.
at asshole, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 235: You’re not going to make the beast with two backs with the next warm body that falls in front of you.
at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 258: The uniformed security agent wasn’t young, but looked beefy.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 12: Benjamin Franklin wasn’t some nancy-boy novelist who wrote sensitive books.
at nancy boy, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 233: Those episodes of The West Wing where the president has multiple scelerosis brainfarts.
at brain fart, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 234: I’ll bet he’s already bust a nut once and is still digging away to prove what an incredibly California buffed-and-tanned physical specimen he is.
at buffed, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 178: The attending officers from homicide were a couple of old bulls of that type that I’m always comfortable dealing with.
at bull, n.5
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 199: He bullshitted on the subject for a while longer.
at bullshit, v.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 23: I hate the way this sounds. It makes me sound like a carny fortune-teller.
at carney, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 67: I’m a cop. I can spot a guy carrying from thirty feet.
at carry, v.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 3: Cheering on the police for getting those cheapass squatter motherfuckers off their block.
at cheap-ass (adj.) under cheap, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 229: Something about another clusterfuck in Iraq.
at clusterfuck, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 77: No way in hell was I going to attempt to get the underpants on. I’d go commando.
at go commando (v.) under commando, adv.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 31: A yellow cab swerved over [...] and had a good crack at harvesting the door ninja off his left fender.
at have a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 3: It’s almost a point of honor to live near a crackhouse.
at crack house (n.) under crack, n.7
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 134: Even with the A/C cranked up [...] I was regretting putting on a jacket and tie.
at crank, v.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 163: You kill people for wearing crap clothes, from what I can make out.
at crap, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 27: Anal sex was edgy [...] time was, cum shots were edgy.
at cum shot (n.) under cum, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 233: Every time he gets too cute we plant crack on him.
at cute, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 181: We talk to him and we leave. That’s the whole deal.
at deal, n.1
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 140: I hear they [i.e. the poor] can’t afford water, sir, and drink something called Mountain Dew.
at mountain dew, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 70: If you’ve done shitting on your girlfriend and generally dicking around, take off your clothes.
at dick (around) (v.) under dick, v.3
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 257: Just stick to the sidelines [...] and get the fuck out of Dodge when it all goes off.
at get the hell out of Dodge (v.) under Dodge, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 142: You [...] have known the dusky terrorist pleasure of a Sand Gook woman.
at dusky, adj.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 137: ‘Please regulate your language in here, ma’am.’ [...] ‘Eat me.’.
at eat me!, excl.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 198: The old gentleman [...] preferred to take his pleasure through the tradesman’s entrance.
at tradesman’s (entrance), n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 71: Look, I’m sorry I got in your face before.
at in someone’s face under face, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 103: They fucking hate me like I was Hitler’s fartcatcher.
at fart-catcher (n.) under fart, n.
[US] W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 7: Jesus, he’s a creepy old fart in real life.
at fart, n.
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