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[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] I wouldn’t let her if she tried. Why I’m here, Leo, basically, is to save your ass.
at save one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Ray Bones is looking for you. He’s got some kinda bug up his ass, can’t sit still.
at have a bug up one’s ass (v.) under bug, n.4
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Last night I watched two guys carjack a Camero down on the corner of Argyle there.
at car-jack, v.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Now he’s got the dough to buy his way in, mix with celebs.
at celeb, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Well, you had it down cold. Watching you in the movie, if I didn’t know better I’d have to believe you were a made guy and not acting.
at have (something) down cold (v.) under cold, adv.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Now you’re down to three-ten in the case. You must’ve cooled off quite a bit since you got here.
at cool off, v.2
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] We see a fidgety LEO DEVOE, a little guy in a crummy suit and a little green hat sitting there in coach, looking around.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Don’t fade on me now, Bear. Not unless you wanna hold Farrah on your lap in a room fulla felons.
at fade, v.1
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Whatta you mean, he faked them out?
at fake out, v.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Well, you had it down cold. [...] Even the fink part. I never met a fink and I hope to God I never do, but how you did it must be the way finks act.
at fink, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] MARTIN: I’m sitting here, I’m looking at you and I’m having these flashes. You know, flashbacks, of memories. (touches her hair) Of us.
at flash, n.1
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] I’ll make you a deal. If you can get out of here before I take my coat off, I won’t clean the floor with you, get your little costume all messed up.
at wipe the floor (with), v.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] It’s nothing. It’s fluff. Nothing you’d be interested in.
at fluff, n.1
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Hey, fuckball, I don’t need your permission. L.A.’s an open city.
at fuckball (n.) under fuck, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] I know I’m better than what I’ve been doing the last ten years, walking around in a tank top and fuck-me pumps, waiting till it’s time to scream.
at fuck-me shoes (n.) under fuck-me, adj.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] chili: Lovejoy sits behind the wheel, watching the bar across the street, getting his video camera ready for action . . . (looks up) What’s he doing? Following a guy? harry: Read it. It’s a grabber.
at grabber, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] chili: I’m thinking of a movie. martin: One of mine? chili: One we’re producing. martin: With what? Wiseguy money?
at wise-guy, adj.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] The guy’s so out of it he doesn’t even know it’s gone.
at out of it, adj.2
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] I hope you drive better than you fucking spell, jackoff. My name’s Barboni, not Bar-bone.
at jack-off, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] I think the romance angle in your story is critically important, that isn’t simply a jump in the sack for either of them. These two become deeply in love.
at jump in the sack (n.) under jump, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] harry: Really? You ever been arrested? chili: I’ve been picked up a couple times. Loan sharking. Racketeering. But I was never convicted. I’m clean.
at loan sharking, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] chili: Well, you had it down cold. Watching you in the movie, if I didn’t know better I’d have to believe you were a made guy and not acting.
at made man (n.) under made, adj.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] chili.: We’re there, Harry. You signed markers for a hundred and a half, you’re over sixty days past due and you haven’t told anybody what the problem is.
at marker, n.2
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Harry stands behind the wet bar pouring himself a strong one. He looks at himself in the smoke-tinted mirror squares, downs the drink in one and pours himself another.
at one, n.1
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Yo, Chili, you’re spacin’.
at space (out), v.1
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] You show in a back story his motivation, his desire to be famous, you know, pal around with celebrities, the headliners doing the big rooms.
at pal with (v.) under pal, v.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] bones: I need you to take this gun and put a pill in the bro over there for me.
at pill, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Apparently, way it went, he invited her to come to Santa Anita to play the ponies with him. She told him what to do with that and he gave her one on the tush.
at play the ponies (v.) under pony, n.
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] Whatta you got there . . . some kinda pop nine, the fuckin’ Fiat of guns, always jammin’ at the wrong time.
at pop-nine (n.) under pop, v.1
[US] S. Frank Get Shorty [film script] That’s a federal officer, most likely DEA. He moves his leg look for the bulge. You savvy bulge? That’s his backup piece .
at savvy, v.
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