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How hot is Levi Johnston?

Sizzlin'!
Not bad. I've seen better.
He's taking the quick fame thing way too far.

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Chapters 5–6

Freeloader a person who imposes on another's hospitality without sharing in the responsibility or cost.

Mr. Ed a popular television show in the early 1960s whose title character was a talking horse. (The "horse" was actually a trained zebra.)

hunkered crouched down.

Beach Blanket Bingo refers to a 1965 beach movie of the same name, featuring teen idols Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

homeostasis a relatively stable state of equilibrium.

sarong a long strip of cloth worn as a dress or skirt.

flex short for flexible.

splitting our gussets laughing hard enough to rip the seams in your clothing.

Junebug a large beetle.

jerry can a container that holds about five gallons of liquid.

foisting deceitfully forcing someone to accept something.

Blondie and Dagwood a married couple in a newspaper comic strip.

Heimlich Maneuver an abdominal thrust to dislodge food or other material from a choking person's windpipe.

José Cuervo a brand of tequila.

star sapphire a gem cut and polished to show a star shape in the stone.

Sing Sing a U.S. federal penitentiary located in Ossining, New York.


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