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2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 122: They mad-dogged us and then the boy grabbed one of his chiquita’s butt cheeks [...] Nora slid her eyes my way and shrugged. ‘Some guys like ’em assy’.at assy (adj.) under ass, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 74: Methadone — originally called Dolophine, named for Adolph Hitler by kiss-ass Nazi chemists.at kiss-ass, adj.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 114: Harold also swore he didn’t mind the ‘dumbasses’ and ‘morons’ they yelled after him.at dumb-ass, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 16: MacArthur Park, where twelve-year-old 18th Street bangers kept the stuff [i.e. heroin] in balloons in their mouths.at balloon, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 76: Union Station had a bang-up ending. I won’t ruin it for you.at bang-up, adj.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 14: I’d try to sit through Regis and Kelly without a bang of chiba [...] I couldn’t make it past Regis’s rouge without a second shot.at bang, n.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 16: MacArthur Park, where twelve-year-old 18th Street bangers kept the stuff [i.e. heroin] in balloons in their mouths.at banger, n.6
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 28: He let me take in his steel blue eyes, chiseled beak, and white crew cut.at beak, n.2
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 156: I just took his car. Bent fuck like that, he’s not going to go to the authorities.at bent, adj.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 226: Grandma Essie [...] she’d spank me for BO, and it was like being beaten by a Cro-Magnon bluehair.at bluehair (n.) under blue, adj.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 15: You don’t always have time to pull over and find somewhere convenient to do your business.at do one’s business (v.) under business, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 93: A hundred or two buzzed silhouettes bumped and hopped around a drum circle.at buzzed, adj.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 176: I dropped to my knees and started to study the floor [...] Carpet-mining, not to get technical [...] We’d run out of drugs and I was scouring the floor to see if we’d dropped any.at carpet mine (v.) under carpet, n.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 218: We decided to mix shooting with smoking. Chasing the proverbial dragon.at chase the dragon, v.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 193: The cheesedick bastard who banged my head off the marble floor of a Four Seasons bathroom.at cheesedick (n.) under cheese, n.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 14: While cheesy, this [i.e. writing copy for medical products] is a serious, high-stakes business.at cheesy, adj.2
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 14: I’d try to sit through Regis and Kelly without a bang of chiba [...] I couldn’t make it past Regis’s rouge without a second shot.at chiba, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 122: They mad-dogged us and then the boy grabbed one of his chiquita’s butt cheeks.at chiquita, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 107: A trio of Cholitas pushing strollers stopped to stare.at cholo, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 119: She spread herself open and slapped her clit [...] while I slid in and out of her from behind.at clit, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 138: Watch your step, I think somebody’s clocking us from the window.at clock, v.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 64: On cocaine they crawl back and burrow under your skin. Coke bugs!at coke bug (n.) under coke, n.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 139: We weard the sounds of what [...] used to be called ‘torrid lovemaking.’ If part of romance involved screaming ‘filthy whore’ and ‘cum bucket’ from the bed of passion.at come-bucket (n.) under come, n.
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 201: T explained to the (partly intrigued, partly creeped) staff how [etc.].at creep someone out, v.
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2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 112: ‘So,’ I said, feeling dickish without doing anything to stop it, ‘is there somebody who makes money out of kids with defects and learning disorders?’.at dickish (adj.) under dick, n.1
2013 J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 52: Riding the Dog. When’s the last time you traveled by long-distance bus? Or sat in a Greyhound station?at dog, the, n.1
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