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strawberry

strawberry  n.— «Sounding like Sybil, she says has a lot of “different characters who live within” her. “The most sexual [and] wildest” she’s nicknamed “Strawberry,” the street term for a prostitute who...

hocker

hocker  n.— «Sem wonders if skeptical rabbis mean that the press can’t do its job, and that therefore “hockers” are the best sources of information for what the rabbis think…When it comes to the “hock”...

jitterbug

jitterbug  v.— «“How can you stop the fighting?” The question puzzles Vincent. He cannot imagine a world in which there is no such “jitterbugging.”…He has been “jitterbugging” since he was about 13 and...

jitterbug

jitterbug  n.— «Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogar and James Cagney in the movies, “Gangbusters” on radio, bubblegum “war cards” depicting atrocities, and “zoot suit” riots among the jitterbug set were...

jitterbug

jitterbug  n.— «The big holdup job gets messed up by a couple of “jitterbugs” who are assisting on it, the girl turns out a great disappointment, the gunman is rendered a fugitive with a moll and a dog who love him...