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[US] M.J. Hyland This Is How 194: ‘Here comes the snout-baron,’ says Stevenson. [...] ‘If you need any snout,’ he says, ‘you see me’.
at baron, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 20: At least Rupert gives me some Grade A dick.
at grade A, adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 16: You know how it is when [...] your girl’s an octaroon. Brothers go apeshit.
at go apeshit (v.) under apeshit, adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 100: Fresh-off-the-boat-didn’t-have-no-papers Dominican. And thick as fucking shit.
at thick as..., adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 160: Paloma, who didn’t give you any ass because she was terrified that if she got pregnant she wouldn’t abort it.
at ass, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 32: Her moms was a mean-ass drunk.
at mean-ass, adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 36: Ain’t nothing like a fifteen-year-old with a banging body.
at banging, adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 16: Why don’t you beat it, pancho?
at beat it, v.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 3: I took her picture with some bigwig black playwrights.
at bigwig, adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 32: Then the old dude bounced, no one knew where.
at bounce, v.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 97: Bro, you’re working at the Yarn Barn!
at bro, n.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 91: I was [...] smoking so much bud that if I remembered an hour from any one of those days it would have been a lot.
at bud, n.2
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 167: Paloma doesn’t stop busting. They say Mr Everson likes to put on dresses.
at bust, v.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 14: The only Island Dominicans you’re guaranteed to see are either caked up or changing sheets.
at caked, adj.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 6: Don’t think it was a cakewalk, because it wasn’t.
at cakewalk, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 168: I did it, Paloma says, cheesing.
at cheese, v.3
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 18: She smacked me right across the chops.
at chops, n.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 154: Bitch made Iggy Pop look chub.
at chub, n.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 94: Dude was figureando hard. Had always been a papi chulo.
at chulo, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 39: She was from Trinidad, a cocoa pañyol.
at cocoa payol (n.) under cocoa, n.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 155: Say hello, coño, to la profesora.
at coño, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 149: How skinny she was, no culo, no titties.
at culo, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 33: Rafa was still boxing then and he was cut up like crazy.
at cut, adj.4
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 183: Deadbeats catch one peep of your dismal grill and cough up their debts.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 20: At least Rupert gives me some Grade A dick.
at dick, n.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 111: He called me a dickhole. I’d say that was promising.
at dickhole (n.) under dick, n.1
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 110: Pura [...] got herself dolled up for these visits.
at dolled up, adj.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 10: I must have been smoking dust, because I thought we were fine.
at dust, n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 110: Pura [...] put her son in his FOB best.
at f.o.b., n.
[US] J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 168: You got to the bars [...] get seriously faded.
at faded, adj.
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