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[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 138: They finally caught him in Houma, drunk as a lord.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 109: I would give my last arm to [...] find out just what he’s poor-ass pondering about.
at -ass, sfx
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 102: He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick.
at bag of bones, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 18: He balled that thing clear to Iowa City.
at ball, v.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 200: Dig the way he [...] balls that Jack.
at ball the jack, v.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 43: Marylou’s all for it [divorce], but she insists on banging in the interim.
at bang, v.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 174: I barged in, she was alone – and I gave her the gun.
at barge (in) (v.) under barge, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 94: We promised each other one more big bat.
at bat, n.3
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 81: I picked up her red pumps and hurled them at the bathroom door and told her to get out, ‘Go on beat it!’.
at beat it, v.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 59: The beat and evil days that come to young guys in their twenties.
at beat, adj.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 19: The beat yellow windowshades pulled over the smoky scene of the railyards.
at beat, adj.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 136: His wife was [...] gobbling up about ten dollars’ worth of benny tubes a week.
at benny, n.4
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 103: I had to panhandle two bits for the bus.
at two bits, n.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 150: Man, he’d be blasting with every mad cat he could find.
at blast, v.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 127: Listen will you to this old tenorman blow his top.
at blow one’s top, v.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 64: Say, bo, what was all the noise around here last night?
at bo, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 212: This boat cuts so fast that we can make it without any time trouble.
at boat, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 266: Victor proceeded to roll the biggest bomber anyone ever saw.
at bomber, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 72: If you can’t boogie I know I’ll show you how.
at boogie, v.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 141: That night Marylou took everything in the books: she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M.
at everything in the book(s) (n.) under book, n.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 206: I used [...] to steal change off the newsstand for bowery beef stew.
at bowery, adj.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 154: The same thing happened to that dumb little box.
at box, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 72: He made incredible twenty dollar bets to win, and before the seventh race he was broke.
at broke, adj.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 21: I decided to spend a buck on beer.
at buck, n.3
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 11: His boyhood buddies, his street buddies, his innumerable girls.
at buddy, n.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 10: [We] yelled and talked excitedly and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.
at bug, n.4
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 177: Now, man, I know you’re probably real bugged; you just got to town and we get thrown out.
at bugged, adj.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 48: You’re talking absolute bullshit.
at bullshit, n.
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 128: They were going to stick and I was going to be left alone on my butt.
at butt, n.1
[US] Kerouac On The Road (1972) 77: He drove me into buzzing Fresno and let me off by the south side.
at buzzing, adj.
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