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[US] Spin Dec. 32/3: A place where dreams are bordered by brackish canals [...] and drunks scream "pogue mahone" ("kiss my ass") at one another in loud, rowdy pubs.
at Pogue Mahone, phr.
[US] in Spin Oct. 58: [...] selling ‘jums’ (or ‘jumbos,’ the big pieces of crack) [HDAS].
at jum, n.
[US] Spin Sept. 87/2: A downtown scenester, banging out post-punk tunes with the Contortions, or starring in those early Beth & Scott B. 8-millimeter epics.
at scenester (n.) under scene, n.
[US] Spin Mar. 25/2: ‘I think that I'm very, very sane,’ says Julian [Cope], long labeled a hopeless acid casualty, really off his box.
at acid casualty (n.) under acid, n.1
[US] Spin Apr. 99/3: If they get the dope on you, they get the truth. So you have to avoid some truths.
at get the dope on (v.) under dope, n.3
[US] Spin Mar. 72/2: Sam Fox [...] useta bare her mams on page 3 of Limey tabs.
at mam, n.
[US] Spin Feb. 57/1: Ernest P. Worrell is a throwback to [...] every half-smart half-assed hayseed in the history of American comed.
at half-smart (adj.) under smart, adj.
[US] Spin VII:4 40/3: Maybe subconsciously I'm tapping into something [i.e. musical inspiration] from back in the day.
at back in the day(s) under back, adv.
[US] Spin Jan. 73/1: Beavis and Butt-head have invented their own language, and you have to admire how they’ve invented it out of scraps like ‘ass-munch,’ ‘waste of buttwipe,’ ‘change it,’ and ‘someday, Beavis, you’re gonna have urges like me’.
at ass-munch (n.) under ass, n.
[US] D.E. Axinn Spin 149: She’s reminding me I snafued it.
at s.n.a.f.u., v.
[US] Spin Dec. 120: L.L. Cool J, who reminds us just how thrilling one kid with a beat-box, Pumas, and an unlegislated imagination could be.
at beatbox, n.
[US] Spin Apr. 164/2: Tad is a really smart guy, he's really articulate, and they marketed him as this big, brooding sort of lughead.
at lughead (n.) under lug, n.2
[US] Spin Aug. 93/2: ‘One Year Down’ perfectly captures the inability to heal a broken heart, and it does so catchily and without resorting to cliches or sappiness.
at sappiness (n.) under sappy, adj.
[US] Spin Dec. 56: Forget bunghole, ass-munch; beaver, LSD, masturbation, and marijuana, it’s Beavis’s mantra of ‘fire, fire’ that sets activists aflame.
at ass-munch (n.) under ass, n.
[US] Spin Jan. 37: The coolster postures that pushed a thousand lounge reissues our way.
at coolster (n.) under cool, adj.
[US] Spin July 112: I’m at a hobo gathering at an undisclosed location [...] in the Southwest, maybe a hundred people jungled up on a patch of desert.
at jungle (up) (v.) under jungle, n.
[US] Spin Apr. 84/1: Cook— better known as Fatboy Slim— is also ‘off his tits,’ having knocked back a naughty pill of Ecstasy just before going onstage.
at off one’s tits (adj.) under tit, n.2
[US] T. Lowe Spin 41: Lemme tell you something: forget everything those pansy-ass professors taught you in college.
at pansy-ass, adj.
[US] Spin Nov. n.p.: Their defining pro-pleasure dissertation is ‘(I Wanna) Meat Injection,’ on which they avow that they’d swap Rudolph Valentino and Tom Cruise for a ‘meat injection’ from ‘someone sweet, who can keep an erection’.
at meat injection (n.) under meat, n.
[US] Spin Dec. 106: I was as happy as a dog with two cocks.
at pleased as a dog with two cocks, phr.
[US] Spin Dec. 106: I was as happy as a dog with two cocks.
at ...a dog with two tails under happy as..., adj.
[US] Spin Dec. 118: The Donnas’ Grease-lubed vision of badassery — dressing trashy, talking dirty, and putting out .
at badassery (n.) under bad-ass, n.
[US] Spin Sep. 102: The bar is a complete shitshow, with a drunken banker type growling a profane version of ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.’ It only gets worse from there.
at shit-show (n.) under shit, n.
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