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one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. Barney Northrup had rented one of the apartments to the wrong person.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Cachundo, meaning 'piece of ass', might be applied to a particularly homely runner. Caliman, meaning 'strong man', is reserved for a weak cook, Rayo, or 'flash' to a slowpoke; Baboso, or 'drooling idiot' to, well, any drooling idiot. Any
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Little wonder that Strasser’s nickname was Rolling Thunder. Hayes, meanwhile, was Doomsday. Woodell was Weight. (As in Dead Weight.) Johnson was Four Factor, because he tended to exaggerate and therefore everything he said needed to be divided by four. No one took it personally. The only thing truly not tolerated at a Buttface was a thin
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

monster waves, operated for his first three years with the quite remarkable cover of “surfie,” a globe-trotting beach boy looking for the perfect point break. He was one of the first foreigners
Jason Matthews • The Kremlin's Candidate: A Novel (The Red Sparrow Trilogy Book 3)
The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.
—Derek Landy in Skulduggery Pleasant