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[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 37: ‘No?’ Andy said. Jena didn’t blink. ‘Do sheep wear sweaters?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 15: This scrawny eight-year-old [...] stepped up behind Lucille and beaned her with a board.
at bean, v.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 79: She caught Benny’s eye and flipped her the bird.
at flip a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 86: Extending his arm to her, he said, ‘Shall we blast off?’.
at blast off, v.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 143: You got a problem, bozo?
at bozo, n.1
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 107: I’m sorry about bumming out the night for you.
at bum (out), v.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 68: Being asked out by a cake-eater was something she might have dreamed about.
at cake-eater (n.) under cake, n.1
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 47: It had to be some chip-head fooling around, and he’d obviously cut into the wrong computer.
at chiphead, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 77: ‘Crappo!’ Duckie hollered.
at crappo, adj.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 29: He’s pretty cute.
at cute, adj.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 81: Kate smiled at her and mouthed ‘Eat dirt.’.
at eat dirt (v.) under eat, v.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 29: He thinks you’re pretty far out.
at far out, adj.2
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 99: I’m a full-on drive-by guy.
at full on, adj.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 136: I’d better hit the hay myself.
at hit the hay (v.) under hay, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 143: Any girl that did that to me, I wouldn’t be too jazzed to hold onto.
at jazzed (up), adj.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 116: Give Mr. Perfecto a squeeze for me.
at Mr, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 120: Why don’t you just nail her and get it over with?
at nail, v.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 116: Give Mr. Perfecto a squeeze for me.
at -o, sfx
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 119: I’m a little ticked off at all you guys for being so rude to her.
at ticked (off), adj.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 22: I found me another heavy metal loser. A tapped-out hippy.
at tapped-out, adj.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 102: ‘Philip F. Dale to you, scumwad,’ he said.
at scumbag (n.) under scum, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 12: Kate hissed, ‘You sicko!’.
at sicko, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 15: Okay, smartie, you better give me all your money or else.
at smarty, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 99: If I really have it solid for a girl [...] I ride by her house.
at solid, adv.2
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 100: Prince Charming wimp out?
at wimp out (v.) under wimp, n.1
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 70: She was nothing, worth nothing. A zoid, a zombie, a big zero.
at zero, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 10: There were the richies, and then there were the zoids: the freaks, the outsiders, the zombies. And the girl he was looking at now was definitely a zoid.
at zoid, n.
[UK] H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 69: I saw you rapping all over that zombie [...] My best friend’s conversing with a mutant.
at zombie, n.
[UK] (con. 1980s) L. Leblanc Pretty in Pink 51: Enter the slam dance, which then developed into ‘thrashing,’ a seemingly more violent form of slam dance.
at slam dance, n.
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