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[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 99: ‘You got a beer?’ I said. ‘Does a beer shit in the woods?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 96: Are you husky? pardon my French, but this is no job for a candy-ass.
at candy-ass, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 68: I was the one who got your sex beef cooled.
at cool the beef (v.) under beef, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 10: My father, convinced that a Russian A-bomb attack was imminent, led my mother and me up to the roof to await the arrival of the Big One.
at big one, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 67: Inmates awaiting sentencing and classification were called ‘blues,’ a reference to the denim uniform I was now wearing.
at blues, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 66: ‘You talk about bonaroo pussy, man’ .
at bonaroo, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 100: He guzzled beer and belched, then laughed. ‘Coors, breakfast of champions’.
at breakfast of champions (n.) under breakfast, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 219: We bat the breeze, and I ask her if she's dating anyone.
at bat the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 66: ‘You talkin' pussy, you talkin' my language! I poked my ten-incher in more Brillo pads than you fuckin' seen!’.
at brillo pad, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 67: The deupty sheriffs who served as jailers were ‘bulls.’.
at bull, n.5
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 67: My year sentence was called a ‘bullet’.
at bullet, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 66: The nods I got when I spoke the words [...] told me that none of my ‘cellies’ could risk voicing disbelief.
at cellie, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 44: ‘You're cherry, right? You're a late starter, and you want a nice-looking cooze for your premiere fuck?’.
at cherry, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 68: I was the one who got your sex beef cooled.
at cool, v.2
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 112: I started to get angry for real [...] Necktie noticed my change of expression, and said, ‘Strike a nerve, cool cat?
at cool cat (n.) under cool, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 12: I wanted to scream ‘nutty,’ ‘crazy,’ ‘fruitcake’ and ‘couch case’.
at couch case (n.) under couch, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 127: Young people come to Aspen to cut loose and get away from the grind.
at cut loose, v.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 82: [M]y confrontations with the loading-dock trusties and the cut-rate Satan [i.e. Charles Manson].
at cut-rate, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 145: ‘I was patrolling south of here this morning, saw this '79 Caddy Eldo’.
at El D, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 141: ‘You got a statement to make, Plunkey?’ I sneered à la Bogart. ‘You suck cock, dick breath?’.
at dick-breath (n.) under dick, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 67: The mess-hall slang for Salisbury steak, hot dogs and breakfast jelly was respectively, ‘Gainesburgers,’ ‘donkey dicks’ and ‘red death’.
at donkey dick, n.2
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 198: [D]ingy, zorched, whacked-out and fried from 108 hours of continuous consciousness.
at dingy, adj.2
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 109: [T]he ‘Ecofreaks’ had put the kibosh on Big Sol's ‘Singles Paradise’ tract.
at ecofreak, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 204: Now & Wow Fitness was [...] ‘A fat farm. All Polack chicks lookin’ to get skinny so they can glom themselves a steelworker, then eat themselves fat again when they get married’.
at fat farm (n.) under fat, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 112: ‘Maybe your switch gets flipped by boys now’.
at flip someone’s switch (v.) under flip, v.4
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 231: When I got back to the bar, Jim was fried.
at fried, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 198: [D]ingy, zorched, whacked-out and fried from 108 hours of continuous consciousness.
at fried, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 67: And always, always, ‘be frosty’ and ‘hang tough.’.
at frosty, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 67: If a ‘fruit jockey’ made a sexual advance toward you, ‘wail on his head’ [...] because if you didn’t ‘put him straight,’ you would acquire a ‘fruit jacket.’.
at fruit jockey (n.) under fruit, n.
[US] J. Ellroy Silent Terror 73: [D]evouring the food with the what-the-fuck panache of men determined to die young.
at what-the-fuck, adj.
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