Chapter 40

Question 1

I open the door to SaveMore Drugs and usher my buds inside. I’ve convinced the guys to come to the drugstore with me during lunch so we can pick up a few things I think will help __________ our rock-and-roll image

Answer 1

pimp

Question 2

If he kenw he would have ____________ right there

Answer 2

called us out

Question 3

call someone out

Answer 3

informal to criticize someone or ask them to explain their actions:

If he did anything wrong, I’d be the first to call him out on it.

Question 4

make three sentences with call someone out

Answer 4

informal to criticize someone or ask them to explain their actions:

If he did anything wrong, I’d be the first to call him out on it.

Question 5

it makes me want to torture him a bit by ____________

Answer 5

dragging this out

Question 6

What exactly do you need? Matt says, more _______________ than I’d expect

Answer 6

non-chalantly

Question 7

You have all their web sites bookmarked? __________! I give Matt a fist bump

Answer 7

Boo ya

Question 8

Right, I save, dropping my voice _________

Answer 8

an octave

Question 9

MIght as well get some that I can use for when we win the Battle of the BAnds, because the groupies are going to be ______________

Answer 9

swarming the stage

Question 10

make 3 sentences with swarm

Answer 10

move somewhere in large numbers.
“protesters were swarming into the building”
synonyms: flock, crowd, throng, stream, surge, flood, seethe, pack, crush
“reporters and photographers were swarming all over the place”

Question 11

pygmy

Answer 11

pyg·my
/ˈpiɡmē/
noun
1.
a member of certain peoples of very short stature in equatorial Africa and parts of Southeast Asia.
adjective
1.
used in names of animals and plants that are much smaller than more typical kinds, e.g., pygmy hippopotamus, pygmy water lily.

Question 12

dildo

Answer 12

dil·do
/ˈdildō/
noun
an object shaped like an erect penis used for sexual stimulation.
VULGAR SLANG
a stupid or ridiculous person.

Question 13

Sex. Exactly. And that’s what the cashier will be picturing me doing as she _________

Answer 13

rings it up

Question 14

endcap

Answer 14

endcap noun
end·​cap | \ ˈend-ˌkap \
Definition of endcap
: a display of products placed at the end of an aisle in a store

Question 15

I _____ two more baskets from the front of the store and return to Matt and SEan to separate the items

Answer 15

nab

Question 16

I head over to an ancient ________ dude with an eye patch and glasses, _____ that he won’t be able to make out the things I’m buying

Answer 16

in hopes; liver-spotted

Question 17

and SEan casually strolls over to the till being manned by somebody’s grandmother because he has nothing to worry about. OR _________

Answer 17

so he thinks

Question 18

I was _____________ SEan for being such a pussy, but I have to say, I’ve never been so uncomfortable in my entire life

Answer 18

busting on

Question 19

then a tube of spermicide and can of contraceptive foam ___________ nicely ____ a notebook and some AFTERSHAVE

Answer 19

CAMOUFLAGED BY

Question 20

iNSTEAD OF having to ____ all the garbage down to the junkyard

Answer 20

lug

Question 21

Oh right, I say. That kind of humping. It takes me a moment to _____ the image of this old dude _____________ his wife

Answer 21

suppplant; going primal on

Question 22

it takes me a moment to supplant the image of this old dude going primal on his wife with the one fof him lugging trash, but thankfully, my twisted mind __________

Answer 22

obliges me

Question 23

but she’s turned away and already has the _____________ to her ear

Answer 23

intercom

Question 24

I thought for she he’d spot it before it got _______

Answer 24

rung up

Question 25

Me and Matt hurry over to SEan, who looks like he might _____________

Answer 25

blow a gasket

Question 26

blow a gasket

Answer 26

blow a fuse (or gasket)
phrase of blow
INFORMAL
lose one’s temper.