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[UK] D. Jarman letter Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 48: Later we went to Derek Ball’s, who threw an acid-house party for a group of tipsy boys from Brighton.
at acid house party (n.) under acid, n.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter 4 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 29: The reason we were not at the Downing Street bash was quite simple: because we were not asked.
at bash, n.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter 5 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 14: Ken has an upset stomach that he calls Delhi Belly.
at Delhi belly, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 2 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 12: The rain that was meant to blow in blew away.
at blow in, v.2
[UK] D. Jarman letter 6 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 31: ‘Liverish,’ I said ‘those TB bugs jaundice the view, like cracked and yellowing varnish.’.
at bug, n.4
[UK] D. Jarman letter 28 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 43: Who gives a fuck for these fat cats who have built their careers.
at fat cat, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 28: The Labour MPs should be outed first [...] I’d turn the key on the Tories and leave them in the closet.
at in the closet under closet, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 19 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 38: Drunks are crashed out on the black leather chairs in the entrance.
at crash (out), v.
[UK] D. Jarman letter Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 44: They were so big and muscly their dicks would have looked incredibly small.
at dick, n.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter 12 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 33: My stomach collapsed in a dose of the shits.
at dose, n.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter 30 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 44: The Chips never flashed their dicks.
at flash, v.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 25: Says he’s going to be invincible – will split any fluff I look at down the middle when he’s finished his taekwon-do.
at fluff, n.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter 3 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 13: Anthony Hopkins put the frighteners on the audience.
at put the frighteners on (v.) under frightener, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 14 Oct. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 57: What does it feel like to have a big Geordie lad on top of you?
at Geordie, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 23 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 24: Piss off Mary, I’m a head fairy.
at head, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 2 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 12: Turned in at eleven.
at turn in, v.1
[UK] D. Jarman letter 25 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 24: Manfred in his leathers with his new boyfriend from the East.
at leathers, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 17 Oct. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 58: I suppose I could have set myself up as the loudmouth he suggests I am.
at loudmouth, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 23 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 24: Piss off Mary, I’m a head fairy.
at Mary, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 1 July Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 28: The Labour MPs should be outed first.
at out, v.3
[UK] D. Jarman letter Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 18: HB has made himself a one-off T-shirt – it says: ‘Queerbashers’ above a photograph of him brandishing a machine-gun; below it the legend: ‘Come and Get It’.
at queer-basher (n.) under queer, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 29 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 26: Like a mid-seventies rave in Railton Road.
at rave, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 12 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 18: Two men in toppers brought their dogs as bridesmaids.
at topper, n.3
[UK] D. Jarman letter 7 June Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 14: It was decided to zap the Isle of Man – as it’s still illegal to be queer there.
at zap, v.
[UK] D. Jarman diary 17 Aug. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 195: The SM club at the Lesbian and Gay Centre.
at S and M, adj.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 12 Mar. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 94: Pat told the confused gang from Leningrad that all the British aristocracy [...] take it up the arse; sodomy is an old British custom.
at take it up the arse under arse, n.
[UK] D. Jarman diary 7 Nov. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 250: The Independent would not print the word ‘arse’ in my Robert Mapplethorpe piece – they changed it to ‘anus’.
at arse, n.
[UK] D. Jarman letter 29 Mar. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 105: He found gruff Yorkshiremen a pain in the arse.
at pain in the arse, n.
[UK] D. Jarman diary 2 Sept. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 210: He described them as ‘the telephone tree glitterati’.
at -ati, sfx
[UK] D. Jarman diary 2 Sept. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 211: Karl was a back-room boy, who chalked up his conquests on a blackboard as if he were playing darts.
at backroom boy (n.) under back, adj.2
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