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The Man Who Was Not With It choose

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[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 18: I wanted to be with it someday like Grack, all there, hard, dark, and sure of himself.
at all there, adj.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 154: I’m just as good as any of those Pittsburgh twist-and-twirls.
at twist (and twirl), n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 257: Well then you’re nothing but another dumb-ass mark in the crowd.
at dumb-ass, adj.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 16: I love, really love to see how the mark runs and then he’s headed off by a wideawake patch.
at wide-awake, adj.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 290: Belly slamming in the snow for prizes.
at belly-slamming, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 20: She claimed stomach ache and Pauline answered she was too young for bicarb in the heart.
at bicarb, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 90: It’s well known [...] that a female motorist will never crawl into the backseat with a lad who has his bindle wrapped in a dirty shirt.
at bindle, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 172: Tad blame it, these shoes make me nervous.
at tad blame it!, excl.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 6: They were blowing for a fight.
at blow for (v.) under blow, v.1
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 112: Ain’t been deflowered yet, either, have you honey? No sir ee.
at no siree (bob)!, excl.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 194: He had lost the swell pimping and posings of the carnie with a boodle in his pocket.
at boodle, n.1
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 96: You think you’re going to buddy up with me?
at buddy, v.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 192: You got business with me so’s you have to hear? This, of course, is the carnie word for: Mind your own!
at business, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 18: We’ll say goombye to the habit together, kid.
at goom-bye, phr.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 87: No F.O.B.’s, C.O.D.’s, junkies, lushes, agitators.
at c.o.d., n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 137: I mean my talk, my way with the crowd [...] who shuffled forward to my cackle.
at cackle, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 205: Once a pretty girl, calico and eyes averted, awkward and shy, stood watching us.
at calico, adj.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 4: He was a sallow stooped carnie [...] but he had a knack: he could chant them into anything.
at chant, v.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 192: Don’t make me chop it up tonight.
at chop it up (v.) under chop, v.1
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 26: ‘Chop-chop?’ Grack asked, handing a sandwich toward me.
at chop-chop, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 17: I used to join out the odds, had myself a stable of clappers for the gash-hounds too dumb to do their own howling.
at clapper, n.2
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 235: A fat-armed cookie with speckled baldness on his biceps.
at cookee, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 198: We love each other. We’ll cop out together.
at cop out, v.1
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 222: You sweat. You do in your pants. You crawl around like an animal.
at do, v.1
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 285: Donkeydust, eh? Ain’t that what all women are? All wives?
at donkey dust (n.) under donkey, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 99: Smoke nothing but big two-for-thirty-five cigars now [...] Got a boxful in my duff.
at duff, n.4
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 23: Whose white dust on my lips? Fever’s! Mr. Fever’s dust!
at dust, n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 87: No F.O.B.’s, C.O.D.’s, junkies, lushes, agitators.
at f.o.b., n.
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 273: Grack told me you’re far out, boy.
at far out, adj.1
[US] H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 239: We’re looking for a friend [...] You know him. Needed it bad, fierce.
at fierce, adv.
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