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[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 42: ‘Fucking A!’ Fat Dog said. I could feel him getting keyed up.
at fucking A!, excl.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 169: When you got the moolah these Hebes got, who gives a rat’s ass for a few chickenshit million a year?
at not give a rat’s ass, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 65: He’d chug-a-lug a half pint of bourbon, get up on a card table and suck his own dick.
at chug-a-lug, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 485: You could fuckin’-A say that again.
at fucking-A, adv.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 105: She popped her final ace — ‘Walter, if you persist with this behaviour, I shall have to call Judge Gray and have you committed’.
at ace, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 153: When she hit the busy Ensenada streets she cleaned up her act, slowing down and driving with restraint.
at clean up one’s act (v.) under act, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 94: My parents had died recently and I was totally up in the air.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 186: There were no clues, the motive was still ‘up in the air’.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 236: Three hundred and fifty scoots for an all-nighter.
at all-nighter, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 33: She tore out and I was all set for hot pursuit.
at all set, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 129: You’ve got that all wrong, amigo.
at amigo, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 149: I decided not to risk a daytime B&E.
at b and e, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 214: I collected the bets, sent guys to the track to place them, that kind of thing. It was penny ante.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 15: Here I was, four hundred miles away, putting the arm on some counter-culture bimbo.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 66: Think it over. Kick it around with your shrink. [Ibid.] 128: Omar was nodding his head, taking in the information and kicking it around.
at kick around, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 108: Maybe an ass-kicking, by me.
at ass-kicking, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 119: A shit-ass town like this having a championship course.
at shit-ass, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 202: It didn’t take me long to spot the caddy shack [...] the carelessly dressed men coming out of it were a dead giveaway.
at give-away, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 220: [I] drove to the apartment of an informant and got blown away on hash.
at blow (someone) away, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 79: The boss would give me the axe quick if I pulled the shit Omar does.
at axe, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 109: The Gaffany dame was a semi-pro b-girl.
at B-girl, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 55: I stopped by the office and picked up the file. What I don’t remember, this baby does.
at baby, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 142: ‘Back off there, Brother Bob,’ I said. ‘I’m on your side and just making friendly overtures.’.
at back off!, excl.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 79: He’s always [...] taking off to hang out at the drug recovery crashpad, leaving me holding the fucking bag.
at hold the bag, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 144: In a small way, you have life by the ass and I salute you.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 187: The authorities tell us there were drugs involved! I say ‘Baloney’.
at baloney!, excl.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 109: They caught the guys wham, blam, thank you ma’am.
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 21: He got a bang out of that and started to laugh.
at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 150: Servicemen in civvies beginning an evening of barhopping.
at bar-hop, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 16: The woman was on her knees, hurling invectives. Her best shot was ‘urban barracuda’.
at barracuda, n.
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