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The Cure: Recollections of an Addict choose

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[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 129: You like omnopon? Does a giraffe have a long neck?
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 117: Lay a bit of blotting paper soaked in piss on them and say it’s acid and [...] they’ll say thanks for the acid man I really had a groove time.
at acid, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 66: This isn’t another one of your smart aleck jokes Mackey?
at smart-aleck, adj.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 44: [A]ll mine ex-alcho doctor, you’re all mine.
at alko, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 93: [T]hey left the foul smelling room littered with empty amp boxes and blackened spoons .
at amp, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 1: [A] frizzy-haired nowhere kid who carted amps for some group.
at amp, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 12: I examine the bottle, lingering deliberately over my too much amphet symptoms.
at anphet, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 147: Tell ’em to ram it up their arse.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 114: An interview with the star. One of those society band molls. Clings and slimes and flatters in her best put on voice.
at band moll (n.) under band, n.2
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 30: You’re all saying he’s a paranoid druggy bastard and the cops weren’t really after him at all.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 15: Semi-hallucinogen, painkiller, and hypnotic. A pretty good oral bend, and efficient knockout brew to boot.
at bend, n.4
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 137: [H]is acne marred bird is well trained and does all the unpacking.
at bird, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 53: Jealous, scheming little bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 26: So it had all been a buildup to a bite for a couple of pills.
at bite, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 56: Into the public shithouse near the Alamein fountain for a quick blast.
at blast, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 74: Drunks, petty crims, bludgers and a few alcoholic or amphet pill addicted musicians.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 100: Remember that robbery in Bondi, you know the one where Bluey give it to those jacks.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure xii: Money? Boost (shoplift), bust (break and enter), all kinds of ways [...] We got along.
at boost, v.2
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 74: I heard you’d given up the booze but I see my information was inaccurate.
at booze, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 101: Pace up and down, pace up and down you, you’re gonna get through a lot of paces before you get out of here. Yes boss. Always yes boss.
at boss, n.2
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 105: [S]o he was camp which is cool - every head knows that camp cats are cool and understanding and that and when you’re desperate for bread.
at bread, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 15: [I]t was a combination of belladonna, tincture of opium and phenobarbitol. Semi-hallucinogen, painkiller, and hypnotic. A pretty good oral bend, and efficient knockout brew to boot.
at brew, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 35: It’s all right in a contrived erotic titillating way - we bring each other on and off in routine unorthodox fashion.
at bring off, v.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 114: Wish she wouldn’t try to bring me on.
at bring on (v.) under bring, v.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 59: [A] brokey must declare himself, you can’t continue after you’ve declared even if you win the hand.
at brokey (n.) under broke, adj.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 97: From a leading Sydney pusher to a bum in a matter of weeks.
at bum, n.3
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure xiii: Money? Boost (shoplift), bust (break and enter) [...] We got along.
at bust, v.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 5: Railway clock says eleven o’clock - supposed to meet her at nine - she’s been busted or maybe the chemist wouldn’t give her any [i.e. narcotics].
at bust, v.1
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure xiii: A clumsy bust and back to the Bay [ibid.] xv: Omnopon - are sold in ampoules or hypodermic tablets. These are usually obtained from chemist-shop busts.
at bust, n.
[Aus] K. Mackey Cure 17: Makes me unambivalent physical approach - too butch - vague excitement drifts away and I am ice cold.
at butch, adj.
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