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The Secrets of Harry Bright choose

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[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 150: I wanna see you loosey goosey up there on the eighteenth tee.
at loose as a goose, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 115: I shoulda put Boy George between those two gender benders.
at -a, sfx
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 78: That waitress is all time [...] She’s the kind tries to lick you with her eyes.
at all-time, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 60: A signal meant they’d caught some guy milking the anaconda.
at milk the anaconda (v.) under anaconda, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 33: He’s deader’n gramma’s clit. [...] He’s deader’n John De Lorean’s MasterCard.
at dead as..., adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 184: Only Beavertail Bigelow [...] didn’t get a bang out of Oleg’s performance.
at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 233: I ain’t a kike or a beaner or a nigger.
at beaner, n.3
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 66: Prankster Frank had inserted a shot he found in Hustler magazine, a beaver shot, a yawning beaver shot.
at beaver shot (n.) under beaver, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 169: We’ll be lucky if we don’t get beefed over that one.
at beef, v.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 259: Otto [...] enjoyed himself enormously by doing belly flops.
at bellyflop, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 115: I shoulda put Boy George between those two gender benders.
at gender-bender, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 100: Make her promise first! She’ll blind-side me, the sneaky bitch!
at blindside, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 191: You kin bone your old lady twice.
at bone, v.2
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 74: Hey, Edgar, ain’t that a song from your time? Ain’t that one you used to have on this box?
at box, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 44: Where’s da money, bro?
at bro, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 117: Oleg Gridley [...] spotted the lone busty woman at the far end of the bar.
at busty, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 63: That was a lot of cactus juice for the young cop.
at cactus juice (n.) under cactus, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 45: Of course the rescuers played catch-up for Otto in that all the Samoans [...] had to have buckets of water poured on them.
at play catch-up (v.) under catch-up, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 224: Oh, Otto, you are a caution!
at caution, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 265: He slammed the door, which was something he did only when he was about to give one of his cops a royal ass chewing.
at chew (on) someone’s ass (v.) under chew, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 32: The young cop played chicken with the approaching headlights, veering at the last second.
at play chicken (v.) under chicken, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 7: There were a lot of Harley hogs and chopper bikes in or about the town.
at chopper, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 47: You like real clangers?
at clanger, n.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 238: I just got myself cleaned up. I was pretty heavy into drugs the past year.
at clean up, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 281: I was told by Paco that you guys have some cockamamy theory about Harry Bright and me smoking the Watson kid.
at cockamamie, adj.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 174: ‘That dude sporting his colors?’ ‘Colors?’ ‘His bike jacket with the Cobras logo on the back.’.
at colours, n.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 108: They cook up speed in those shacks.
at cook up, v.
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 150: ‘Five for Otto!’ Archie said, writing his score on the steering-wheel card holder. ‘Now you’re cooking, kiddo.’.
at cook, v.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 109: Turns out he was shot in the head before he got cooked.
at cook, v.1
[US] J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 217: This is pretty tall cotton for a guy that used to work the streets around Southern substation.
at high cotton, n.
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