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DADDY-O |
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an appellation, similar to calling someone "man" |
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". . . you just burned the town down last Wednesday, Daddy-O . . ." |
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[ Nero ] |
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DANGLIN' WANGLIN' |
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idle behavior |
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"I don't want no danglin' wanglin' around here." |
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[ Scrooge ] |
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DE-GIGGED |
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having lost one's job |
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". . . and everybody beat, bent, flapped, trapped and de-gigged . . ." |
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[ The Gasser ] |
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DELICATE GEAR |
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sensitive body parts |
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". . . if you do I am going to knock you in your most delicate gear." |
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[ Jonah and The Whale ] |
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DELICATE LICK |
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a timid action |
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"The cat hips me that when I have to yank the chute release, not to come on with no delicate lick." |
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[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ] |
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DEPARTED STUDS |
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honored dead |
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". . . for all to dig that these departed studs shall not have split in vain." |
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[ The Gettysburg Address ] |
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DEUCE |
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twenty dollars |
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". . . I stood repeating 'Tis some strange midnight stud that's sounding a money beat on my pad's door. A deuce to cool the morrow . . ." |
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[ The Raven ] |
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DIAMOND HATCHET |
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something beautiful but deadly |
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". . . with a face like a diamond hatchet." |
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[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ] |
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DIG |
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to understand, to comprehend, to really enjoy something |
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"He's really diggin' this scene, man . . ." |
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DIMPLE |
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a child |
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". . . with another little dimple on the way." |
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[ Scrooge ] |
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DIPPER |
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drinking glass |
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". . . as he mixed the green stuff in his dipper." |
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[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] + |
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DITTY |
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a little story |
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"But when begins my ditty
Five hundred swinging years ago/To see the Town Cats brought down /So from squirmin' vermin/was a drag and a pity.
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[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] |
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DIVINE SWINGER |
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a god-like mortal |
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". . . Mahatma Gandhi , a divine swinger . . ." |
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[ Prelude ToThe Hip Gan ] |
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DOG |
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A "dog" in racing (or sports betting) is an "underdog," that is, in a horserace, a longshot, or in a two-team contest,
the unfavored side |
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"So he had to take his tight little buttocks off the favorite and put it on the dog." |
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[ Martin's Horse ] ¶ |
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DONE IN |
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killed, destroyed |
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"I've done in my brother. I've done in my sister. I've done in my done-ins." |
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[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ] |
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DOOMSDAY'S BREAK |
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the end of the world |
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". . . that mother slammed like Doomsday's Break!" |
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[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ] |
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DOUBLE FLIPPIES |
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a strong feeling of anxiety |
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"I now got the jammies and the double flippies, but I still keep diggin' the 14 commandments. . . " |
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[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ] |
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DOUBLE-UNHUNG |
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very unpleasant, miserable |
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"I've been on a lotta tilted picnics and a lotta double-unhung parties." |
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[ The Gasser ] + |
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DRAG |
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an unenjoyable or arduous time, a person that nobody likes to be around |
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"Hungry, his threads thin, it was a drag." |
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[ The Hip Einie ] |
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DUCK AND DODGE |
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the ability to avoid incrimination |
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"But he was a sly cat and very slick and they never cut him up none, 'cause he was always on the duck and dodge, you see." |
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[ Speak For Yourself, John ] < |
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DUG UNDER IT |
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buried |
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"... both diggin' it and dug under it ..." |
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[ The Gettysburg Address ] |
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