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[UK] in K. Richards Life (2010) 78: Of course’ve still got the old Lags here y’know Cliff Richard, Adam Faith and [...] Shane Fenton.
at old lag, n.
[UK] K. Richards journal 3 Jan. in Life (2010) 115: Cock-up. My pickup clapped out completely.
at clapped(-out), adj.
[UK] K. Richards journal 3 Jan. in Life (2010) 115: Cock-up. My pickup clapped out completely.
at cock-up, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 190: He didn’t give a shit. ‘I was out of it’.
at give a shit, v.
[UK] K. Richards Life 380: She’d have thrown a whole bottle [...] down the wall of the rent-a-house we’d just moved into.
at rent-a-, pfx
[UK] K. Richards Life 384: As far as that’s English law, I respect it very much. But do me a favor.
at do me a favour, phr.
[UK] K. Richards Life 90: Suddenly you’re in with the big boys, you’re not just pissing around in school gymns.
at piss about, v.
[UK] K. Richards Life 205: You had to be with the right people when you were taking acid, otherwise beware.
at acid, n.1
[UK] K. Richards Life 207: A couple of flying acid-heads who’d been up for a couple of nights.
at acid-head (n.) under acid, n.1
[UK] K. Richards Life 208: Some people are going, let’s do it again, and others are going, enough already.
at already, adv.
[UK] K. Richards Life 91: All I could hope for was that my amp would work.
at amp, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 200: He used to keep spare jacks, a sixth of a grain - it was six jacks to a grain of heroin - loose in these suit pockets.
at jack (and jill), n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 390: [The bedroom] had massive chains hanging from the wall [...] giivng an overall S&M feel.
at S and M, adj.
[UK] K. Richards Life 64: Mick says I’ve got to get to so-and-so.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 344: What really turned me on [about Rastafarianism] is there’s no you and I, there’s just I and I.
at I and I, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 202: This weird mixture of aristos and gangsters.
at aristo, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 535: Shove all your little honors up your arse.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[UK] K. Richards Life 12: And that’s what saved our asses on many occasions.
at save one’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] B. Keys in Richards Life 152: Who are these pasty-faced, funny-talking, skinny legged guys [...] I’ll kick their asses!
at kick someone’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 312: Most guys I know are assholes, I have some great asshole friends.
at asshole, adj.
[UK] K. Richards Life 52: He was famed for playing with himself through his trouser pocket.
at play with oneself (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] K. Richards Life 349: Sometimes there’s a backhander - ‘I love you too, and here’s some smack!’.
at back-hander, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 205: I never saw Gibbs unbalanced by acid, never saw any signs of a bad trip.
at bad trip (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] K. Richards Life 417: It was a fun tour and we had a lot of laughs [...] it was a ball, a riot.
at ball, n.3
[UK] K. Richards Life 214: She had the balls to break the ice and say fuck it.
at balls, n.
[UK] K. Richards Life 440: Roy was banged up [...] in the famous Arthur Road prison in Bombay.
at banged up, adj.2
[UK] K. Richards Life 271: The next day he was brooding again. Not a barrel of laughs.
at barrel, n.1
[UK] K. Richards Life 50: We beat the shit out of them.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[UK] K. Richards Life 184: She bedded me. I didn’t bed her.
at bed, v.
[UK] K. Richards Life 487: You couldn’t tour behind a record like the old days.
at behind, prep.
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