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[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 302: You will slowly and surely and without doubt sink into the gutter with your gorilla on your back.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 302: When you’re hooked, you’re dead. It takes a lot of guts [...] more guts than you were thinking of when you grabbed that cute little bammie. When you are dead, there is nothing but heroin.
at bammy, n.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 267: ‘Oh, come on, man, you’re dusting me.’ ‘I kid you not.’.
at dust, v.3
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 300: How clever, how George, these hopheads sure know how to put things, hey!
at George, adj.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 301: If you have a gorilla, I can guarantee that you will steal [...] you will do anything to feed that gorilla because he is the boss and not you.
at gorilla, n.2
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 303: The loot you dug up to feed your gorilla.
at feed one’s habit (n.) under habit, n.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 266: Hey, are you holding? [...] You got any junk?
at hold, v.1
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 239: You don’t need a syringe, Bud. Where there’s a will there’s a way—and there’s always a will when you’re a horsehead.
at horse-head (n.) under horse, n.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 329: A guy named Dizzy Gillespie [...] wears a little beard right here under his lip, a sort of goatee, a little triangular thing. We call it a ‘Dizzy kick’ in the trade.
at kick, n.7
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 267: ‘Oh, come on, man, you’re dusting me’ ‘I kid you not.’.
at I kid you not under kid, v.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 382: What do you smoke? I smoke O.P.’s.
at o.p.’s, n.
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 300: He was sick. And he knew why he was sick.
at sick, adj.2
[US] E. Hunter Second Ending 236: ‘Where’s the spike?’ He took the syringe from the jacket pocket.
at spike, n.1
[US] H. Wolitzer Ending 88: ‘Tough break.’ I placed a basket of candy at every place setting [...] ‘Tough break,’ he said again.
at tough break (n.) under tough, adj.
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