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[US] A. Wallace ‘The Listress’ Salon.com 16 May 🌐 What activity are the following euphemisms for? 1. Eat cauliflower. 2. Wind up the clock. 3. Drive home. 4. Have a Northwest Cocktail. 5. Introduce Charlie. 6. Parallel park. 7. Buzz the Brillo. 8. Make the chimney smoke. 9. Talk about Uganda. Answer: Have sex.
at do a bit of cauliflower (v.) under cauliflower, n.3
[US] A. Wallace ‘The Listress’ Salon.com 16 May 🌐 What activity are the following euphemisms for? 1. Eat cauliflower. 2. Wind up the clock. 3. Drive home. 4. Have a Northwest Cocktail. 5. Introduce Charlie. 6. Parallel park. 7. Buzz the Brillo. 8. Make the chimney smoke. 9. Talk about Uganda. Answer: Have sex.
at introduce charlie/charley (v.) under charlie, n.10
[US] A. Wallace ‘The Listress’ Salon.com 16 May 🌐 What activity are the following euphemisms for? 1. Eat cauliflower. 2. Wind up the clock. 3. Drive home. 4. Have a Northwest Cocktail. 5. Introduce Charlie. 6. Parallel park. 7. Buzz the Brillo. 8. Make the chimney smoke. 9. Talk about Uganda. Answer: Have sex.
at Ugandan discussion, n.
[US] A. Wallace ‘The Listress’ Salon.com 16 May 🌐 What activity are the following euphemisms for? 1. Eat cauliflower. 2. Wind up the clock. 3. Drive home. 4. Have a Northwest Cocktail. 5. Introduce Charlie. 6. Parallel park. 7. Buzz the Brillo. 8. Make the chimney smoke. 9. Talk about Uganda. Answer: Have sex.
at wind up the clock (v.) under wind, v.
[US] Salon.com 24 Sept. 🌐 You pestiferous jugheaded scrag.
at jugheaded, adj.
[US] Salon.com 4 May 🌐 The crushing economic realities and the graceless development of the American West are forever encroaching, making work as a modern-day cowboy a monotonous, ass-busting job.
at ass-busting, adj.
[US] S.E. Stevens ‘The Shock of the Familiar’ 7 May at Salon.com 🌐 Some failed his first test. ‘Do periodicals count?’ one fuzzbrain inquired.
at fuzz-brain, n.
[US] Salon.com 5 May 🌐 Magicians may cast nasturtiums at his technique [...] but fundamentally, Copperfield is an old-fashioned ENTERTAINAH.
at cast nasturtiums (v.) under cast, v.
[US] Salon.com 5 Oct. 🌐 A clever boots in the lower grades is given to breaking into the Spam song at lunch.
at clever boots (n.) under clever, adj.
[US] Salon.com 17 June 🌐 Clinton – the flesh-presser, the eternal campaigner, the leaper out of the limousine into the crowd.
at flesh-presser (n.) under flesh, n.
[US] Salon.com 30 Nov. 🌐 But police say locating the dime-dropper is a non-issue.
at dime dropper (n.) under dime, n.
[US] Salon.com 29 Mar. 🌐 Seeing the new Whitney Biennial is like struggling through some interminable Jackie Chan movie – minute after bleak minute of watching a bunch of cartoon characters dork around.
at dork around (v.) under dork, n.
[US] Salon.com 19 Feb. 🌐 Plus, she says, many disabled women are caught in a Catch-22, since many of the few men who aren’t turned off by the chair are just after ‘a freak fuck’.
at freak fuck, n.
[US] Salon.com 3 Sept. 🌐 All he does on ‘Big Brother’ is sleep and try to horndog the girls.
at horndog, v.
[US] Salon.com 15 Feb. 🌐 The green stuff also goes by the street names ‘indica’ and ‘sativa,’ hinting at a subculture of dope-smoking botanists in white lab coats roaming our nation’s broccoli-strewn streets.
at broccoli, n.
[US] Salon.com 3 Dec. 🌐 Both collections boast a young, blond diva who looks amazingly like You Know Who, complete with a pneumatically inflated, Britneyesque chest, bountifully curvaceous hips and a camel toe in the crotch.
at camel toe (n.) under camel, n.
[US] Salon.com 15 Feb. 🌐 The green stuff also goes by the street names ‘indica’ and ‘sativa,’ hinting at a subculture of dope-smoking botanists in white lab coats roaming our nation’s broccoli-strewn streets.
at green stuff (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] Salon.com 19 Dec. 🌐 [headline] Music industry in the pits! Record sales are down, no one’s seeing concerts, no one’s advertising on radio and the stars are revolting!
at pit, n.
[US] Salon.com 15 Feb. 🌐 The green stuff also goes by the street names ‘indica’ and ‘sativa,’ hinting at a subculture of dope-smoking botanists in white lab coats roaming our nation’s broccoli-strewn streets.
at sativa, n.
[US] Salon.com 2 Apr. 🌐 ‘The Good Thief’ isn’t about a down-and-outer’s last desperate stab at a big score.
at down-and-outer, n.
[US] Salon.com 30 Aug. 🌐 I really dig your body and want to fuck the shit out of you.
at fuck the shit out of someone (v.) under fuck, v.
[US] Salon.com 8 Jan. 🌐 [Samuel] Fuller, born in Worcester, Mass., and a member of the U.S. infantry, recalls ‘it was colder than Kelsey’s nuts.’.
at cold as Kelsey’s nuts (adj.) under Kelsey’s nuts, n.
[US] Salon.com 30 Apr. 🌐 ‘The Bush economy doesn’t play in Peoria.’ The president says a big tax cut for the rich will create jobs for the hard-hit middle class. In this city of faded glory, few believe him.
at play in Peoria (v.) under Peoria, n.1
[US] Salon.com 8 Mar. 🌐 The good, the bad and the fugly. A new fashion buzzword denotes monstrous sartorial sins – like guys with curly hair who wear mullets. Are we in the golden age of bad looks?
at fugly, adj.
[US] Salon.com 7 Nov. 🌐 She [Jennifer Aniston] also takes time to point out she’s not the waterworks she has been made out to be since her marriage went sour. ‘I’m pegged as a crier, aren’t I? I was upset about the Vanity Fair article. [...] It happened for a second and then it was over.’.
at waterworks, n.
[US] Salon.com 17 Oct. 🌐 Part of Steinberg's job [...] was wrangling the front counter, a hangout spot, and scouring the books for contraband letters, known as ‘kites’.
at kite, n.
[US] Salon.com 20 Nov. 🌐 Big-screen, high-definition televisions displayed [...] bareback bear porn on four walls.
at bareback, adv.
[US] Salon.com 20 Nov. 🌐 Big-screen, high-definition televisions displayed [...] bareback bear porn on four walls.
at bear, n.
[US] Salon.com 20 Nov. 🌐 The first time I walked in on one guy blowing another through a hole in the wall I felt … nothing.
at blow, v.2
[US] Salon.com 20 Nov. 🌐 My actual father, a retired ironworker from Boston who makes a ponytail look positively butch.
at butch, adj.
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