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Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 73: ‘You up against it, kid?’.at up against, phr.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 73: ‘You up against it, kid?’. Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 93: Why, they’d probably fall over onto their black-clad backsides with surprise and fright.at backside, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 84: Instantly, a woman detached herself from the shadow of a shop doorway, and said, roughly, ‘Beat it, sister’.at beat it, v.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 96: I knew I looked like nobody’s fool, and quite good enough for the bummy little club that was all that was left of the Grosniks’ that I had loved so much.at bummy, adj.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 60: [T]he previous receptioniste had left to become a call girl, and Maria had been particularly distressed about it, as the girl was a relative from the Old Country.at call-girl, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 12: All the girls said he was a good catch, and I was crazy not to marry him.at catch, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 89: ‘Would you like to pose for me?’ He looked down at the pavement. ‘It’s for cheesecake pictures,’ he added.at cheesecake, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 101: ‘I moved out of my digs last night, and my things are in the cloakroom at Central Station’.at digs, n.1
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 12: I got a reputation among the boys for being ‘easy,’ and a reputation among the older people for being ‘fast’.at easy, adj.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 16: One of the first things I was going to do, I thought, was to get myself a whale of a high blonde hairdo, and maybe a pair of falsies.at falsies, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 12: I got a reputation among the boys for being ‘easy,’ and a reputation among the older people for being ‘fast’.at fast, adj.1
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 112: Johnny was a mainliner. He injected the drug directly into his vein, and that was the end of the road for an addict. There was nowhere to go after that but to take stronger and more frequent ‘fixes’.at fix, n.3
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 111: ‘It’s ‘H’,’ he said. ‘H’?’ I asked stupidly. ‘Heroin. Snow. Whatever you like to call it’.at H, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 24: Whatever Mr. Nicholas wanted, he wanted like a hole in his head a phone call from a girl to his house on a Sunday morning.at need like a hole in the head (v.) under hole in one’s head, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 106: I did not recognise her at first, so far away those days seemed, almost another existence altogether. But she ‘Yoo—hoo’ed me’.at yoo-hoo, v.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 114: ‘Don’t you know what it is like — to be hooked on heroin?’.at hooked, adj.3
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 117: About Johnny and the Rosebowl and the top room, and the small kickbacks that Nicky gave me.at kickback, n.1
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 97: ‘Like hi,’ he said. ‘I’m Johnny Breen’.at like, hi under like, adv.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 45: ‘This is one time when you can hang the lot, light yourself up like a Christmas tree’.at lit up like a Christmas tree (adj.) under lit (up), adj.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 17: I finally took a room in Cathedral Street, in the ‘Loo,’ and even that cost me four pounds.at Loo, the, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 112: Johnny was a mainliner. He injected the drug directly into his vein, and that was the end of the road for an addict. There was nowhere to go after that but to take stronger and more frequent ‘fixes’.at mainliner, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 18: Anybody who tipped me at the Green Cat was usually drunk or on the make.at on the make under make, n.2
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 123: I got the reputation for being very exclusive, and I heard that men even laid bets as to whether they could ‘make’ me; or not.at make, v.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 28: We were getting the ‘once-over’ before the door was opened to admit us.at once-over, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 110: ‘I’m in love with you. I don’t want any other man pawing me around’.at paw, v.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 112: ‘I promise. I’ll never take another pop. Oh, help me, Carla’.at pop, n.1
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 102: ‘Pot?’ I asked. ‘Tea. Marijuana. Hashish’.at pot, n.5
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 118: ‘I’m not suggesting you start pounding the pavement,’ said Sammy, looking a little hurt.at pound the pavement (v.) under pound, v.2
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 46: ‘I can get someone else to do it. Not a crazy little queer who wants to make holes in my nose and fill them up with green stones’.at queer, n.
Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 120: Sammy was a very sought after dress designer, and was never short of a little of the ‘ready.at ready, n.
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