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[US] J. Franzen Corrections 490: Inside were thirty golden pills. ‘My God.’ Denise laughed. ‘Mexican A.’.
at A, n.2
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 95: He repositioned it against his abs and tucked in the sweater.
at ab, n.1
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 286: Like little kids, bad news, man, they pull your tchotchkes off your shelves, they drop food on your carpet.
at bad news, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 217: It’s a no-brainer. We should all be there. It is so obvious.
at no-brainer, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 287: All those pubescent chickies with their honkers exposed? Jail ’em!
at chickie, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 287: What say we just nuke all billion point two of ’em, hey? Clean that part of the world up already.
at clean up, v.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 287: All those pubescent chickies with their honkers exposed? Jail ’em!
at honker, n.3
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 52: This was just the kind of girl-as-object horseshit [...] that sold magazines.
at horseshit, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 287: Your blue-collar ball-scratchers with their hot rods and beer belches.
at hot-rod, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 419: She fired the dishwasher who’d tied off in the john.
at john, n.2
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 259: Wouldn’t it be neat to put some M-80s on [...] a model railroad bridge? Ker-PERSSSCHT!
at ker-, pfx
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 298: The Strindberg Room was packed with kibitzers, low-stakes blackjack players, and lovers of the slot.
at kibitzer, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 215: The beds of mums and begonias and lirope.
at mum, n.2
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 259: Wouldn’t it be neat to put some M-80s on [...] a model railroad bridge?
at neat, adj.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 347: Brian spent his executive afternoons noodling around with computer code and Fourier analysis.
at noodle, v.3
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 52: Denise in the photo was wearing jeans and a tank top and was all muscled shoulders and satiny pecs.
at pec, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 133: A poxy interlocking constellation of scar tissue extended from his armpit down the inside of his arm to his elbow.
at poxy, adj.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 287: Your Jews with their circumcised putzes and gefilte fish like pickled turds.
at putz, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 259: I know who not to ask if they want seconds.
at seconds, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 298: The Strindberg Room was packed with kibitzers, low-stakes blackjack players, and lovers of the slot.
at slot, n.
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 133: Somebody changed the locks on the flat, I had to pay the super to let me in.
at super, n.1
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 269: What gave him a real techno boner, however, was a radio-controlled toy automobile.
at techno-, pfx
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 342: She married her college boyfriend and had two baby girls, while Billy was going down the tubes.
at go down the tubes (v.) under tube, n.1
[US] J. Franzen Corrections 287: All that dancing and whoopee-making and singers that coo like body parts wetted with saliva.
at make whoopee (v.) under whoopee, n.
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