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[US] T. Roosevelt Rough Riders 680: The ‘pork-barrel’ Senators and Congressmen felt for this body an instinctive, and perhaps from their standpoint a natural, hostility.
at pork barrel (n.) under pork, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 62: They couldn’t shit their bricks fast enough. One of them was literally shaking.
at shit a brick, v.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 119: You ditch the car you driving first chance you can [...] Even you have to go AWOL a couple of days.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 79: Ahearn probably plays every angle he can [...] He even tried to sue us, the [police] department, once.
at play the angles (v.) under angle, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 51: One guy looking to kiss federal ass and that’s the end of finding James Singleton.
at kiss ass, v.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 34: You goddamn right I know him, the rat, bitch-ass motherfucker.
at bitch-ass, adj.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 154: The man’s a ball-breaker. A relentless ball-breaker.
at ball-breaker, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 67: They banged her around pretty good. Tried to rape her, too.
at bang around (v.) under bang, v.1
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 37: You just can’t let the bastard bad guys get away.
at bastard, adj.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 16: I bet they both got themselves boo coo pussy.
at beaucoup, adj.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 89: We’re trying to keep a lid on it but the kids that found him will probably blab it.
at blab, v.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 112: We’re still booking his wife when she gets out.
at book, v.1
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 118: ‘I can for sure take that booty for a ride,’ said Daltry when the woman was gone.
at booty, n.2
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 26: One of your flyboy friends is selling in town. Nigger named Tyrone?
at fly-boy, n.1
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 57: I met him at a flyboy party [...] He’s here through the Air Force.
at fly-boy, n.2
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 11: You’re out of your element here [...] Brothers don’t like the cold much, do you?
at brother, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 51: I’m not bumping heads with any locals out there.
at bump heads (v.) under bump, v.1
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 205: We’re kind of strapped here for manpower, sir.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 68: I think it’s just another form of a pissing match. My scars are bigger than yours, like that.
at pissing contest, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 161: Easy does it, cowboy. What the hell happened?
at cowboy, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 84: They cranked up before I got home [...] They were skying when I walked in.
at crank, v.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 29: ‘That kid really crap his pants?’ [...] ‘Go take a whiff’.
at crap, v.2
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 64: They a lot of white girls want the dark meat.
at dark meat, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 36: The world gets to deal with X amount of dirt bags to balance out the good people.
at dirtbag, n.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 77: I had to whack him pretty hard to drop him.
at drop, v.3
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 157: My husband [...] used to call men who didn’t pump their own gas fairies.
at fairy, n.1
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 96: You about to flip those investment bankers anyhow, the ones you nailed in that little sting.
at flip, v.5
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 168: ‘Flipped?’ ‘Sorry [...] I’m talking a different language here. Flipped means they made a deal [...] Turned rat’.
at flip, v.5
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 111: Your wife is flying on heroin.
at fly, v.
[US] C. Stella Rough Riders 25: She half naked in that robe [...] Kincaid went off, man. The Indian freaked.
at freak, v.3
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