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America’s Homosexual Underground choose

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[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 79: Little snot nose blows up a storm.
at blow up a storm, v.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 119: I know plenty of white boys who’d blacken up if they could get their hands on some of the tricks I’ve turned.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 40: Not bad, Junior [...] You ought to advertise a bit. It pays. Don’t cover everything up.
at advertise, v.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 15: He takes pride in the fact that he has never ‘gone all the way.’ That is, he has never reciprocated in oral intercourse [...] he prefers to think of himself as ‘passive.’.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 39: I hadn’t fooled around much, but I wasn’t exactly a virgin.
at fool around, v.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 45: I had always known what I’d do [...] I’d go to one of the old aunties, the male madams around town.
at auntie, n.2
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 84: The queens were expected to hustle the customers for drinks between performances. They were nothing better than B-girls.
at B-girl, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 39: We didn’t have a second bang because the kid moved out of the neighborhood.
at bang, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 85: Five to ten dollars is the usual bite just to enter the drab establishments.
at bite, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 135: He annexed a succession of lovers and from each he extracted a boodle bag of jewels.
at boodle bag (n.) under boodle, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 124: Interrupting rehearsals to telephone and make sure that lover-boy is being faithful, staying at home and watering the plants.
at lover-boy, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 77: Brother, have I got a story for you?
at brother, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 39: I wasn’t exactly a virgin. A couple of old men in the neighborhood had taken my cherry.
at cherry, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 158: The doc sure will go for a chick like this [...] Look at this, hardly any fuzz on his cheek.
at chick, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 117: As for sex, I’m no chicken, but I’m still going strong.
at no chicken under chicken, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 29: In this rarified area, johns are not johns but cuff link faggots or queens, an expression derived from their tendency to wear extravagant looking jewelry. They are also called ‘finger bowl faggots.’ [Ibid.] 31: The emphasis on youth is the prime characteristic of the ‘finger bowl set.’.
at cuff-link queen, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 80: They don’t want any chit-chat. Just action — rough and fast. I dish it out.
at dish it (out) (v.) under dish, v.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 77: I did everything and did everybody.
at do, v.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 139: They gotta hang around the bar until the last dog is hung.
at till the last dog is hung, phr.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 79: As for those young husbands, they’re dolls. Sweet little things who got married too soon.
at doll, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 81: One of those doll-baby, young husbands had complained.
at doll baby (n.) under doll, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 133: I’ll never forget those Harlem drags during prohibition.
at drag, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 86: The drag ball becomes the highlight of the social calendar [...] for many members of the homosexual underground.
at drag ball (n.) under drag, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 142: Women who understand homosexuals are said to ‘know the score.’ They’re not supposed to be shocked by anything. So when they attend a party there’s no furtive whispering at the door. You don’t hear ‘Keep your hairpins up, dearies...There’s a “straight” inside.’.
at drop (one’s) hairpins, v.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 133: The old lady could never understand why he hadn’t married. I could have dished her an earful, believe you me.
at earful, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 159: Well if it ain’t doll face, that beautiful new fish.
at new fish (n.) under fish, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 38: I took a taxi back home – my fiver was still intact.
at fiver, n.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 138: They don’t learn their jobs well. So they end up like me — a floater.
at floater, n.1
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 77: For Pete’s sake, don’t mention the name of the town, will you?
at for Pete’s sake!, excl.
[US] A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 33: He can look forward to all the gay evenings at the theatre that he’s dreamed about.
at gay, adj.
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