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The Jungle Kids choose

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[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 32: Here man [...] Blow your skull.
at blow someone’s head, v.1
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 30: ‘Oh, can it and sell it,’ I told her.
at can it (v.) under can, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 31: ‘Hey, man [...] get off that [i.e. indiscreet speech]. Cool it fast.’.
at cool it, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 26: After this one I’d be in the upper crust, one of the wheels.
at upper crust, n.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 32: I ain’t been fixed since the Ice Age.
at fixed, adj.4
[US] E. Hunter ‘Sucker’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 93: Dave, they’re trying to play me for a sucker.
at play for a sucker (v.) under play for, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 31: Hey, man [...] get off that [i.e. indiscreet speech]. Cool it fast.
at get off!, excl.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 37: He’d done nicely on a few gigs so far.
at gig, n.1
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 34: I thought Turk was just hopped and talking through the top of his skull.
at hopped (up), adj.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ Jungle Kids (1967) 31: Hey, Cole. How’s it, man?
at how is it (there)?, phr.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ Jungle Kids (1967) 32: How goes it, man. Give us all the cool jive, mister.
at jive, n.1
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 35: Marijuana was candy to Turk. It never gave him a jolt.
at jolt, n.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 32: He still wasn’t living big, but he hadn’t played it right.
at live large (v.) under large, adv.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Small Homicide’ Jungle Kids (1967) 51: ‘And you knew she had a daughter?’ ‘Don’t make me laugh.’.
at don’t make me laugh under laugh, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 34: I thought Turk was just hopped [...] I figured that Turk would never dream that up though, no matter how wigged he was.
at wigged (out), adj.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ Jungle Kids (1967) 36: [of marijuana] You pick up, and the charge is great, but it wears off.
at pick up, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ Jungle Kids (1967) 34: He [...] pinned me with his eyes again.
at pin, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 29: You look lousy when you’ve got a puss on.
at have a puss on (v.) under puss, n.2
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ Jungle Kids (1967) 31: So she rode me for it [i.e. committing a crime]. She didn’t understand.
at ride, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 31: He was getting slop details, rustling chicks for the big boys [...] stuff like that.
at rustle, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 31: He was getting slop details.
at slop detail (n.) under slop, n.1
[US] E. Hunter ‘Small Homicide’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 42: I want the baby’s footprints taken and a stat sent to every hospital in the state.
at stat, n.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ Jungle Kids (1967) 35: He was willing to sell [marijuana] so he could get his paws on the needle-stuff.
at stuff, n.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 34: I thought Turk was just hopped and talking through the top of his skull.
at talk through the top of one’s skull (v.) under talk, v.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 31: ‘What’s the word, Turk,’ I asked.
at what’s the word?, phr.
[US] E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 32: You had to stay on your toes all the time, and Julie had dropped his guard.
at on one’s toes under toe, n.
[US] E. Hunter ‘. . . Or Leave It Alone’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 58: Now Annie was hooked clear through the bag and back again.
at hooked through the bag (adj.) under bag, n.1
[US] E. Hunter ‘. . . Or Leave It Alone’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 62: There was one cat in the world who meant beans to Joey Angeli – and that was Joey Angeli.
at bean, n.1
[US] E. Hunter ‘. . . Or Leave It Alone’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 64: That fruit uptown had treated me to a blow of opium.
at blow, n.3
[US] E. Hunter ‘The Beatings’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 134: Her bubs all spilling out the front of her dress.
at bub, n.4
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