1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 11: ‘Don’t you just love Bach?’ ‘It’s not really my bag.’.at bag, n.2
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 40: We don’t want you blackies coming to this house.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 18: My God, you’re a bloody pure shitter! A bum-banger! My own son – how did it transpire?at bum-banger (n.) under bum, n.1
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 9: ‘Whats going down?’ we said to each other.at what’s going down? under go down, v.
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 8: I don’t know anything. I’m going to be a fuck-up.at fuck-up, n.
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 8: The little groovers talked esoterically of Syd Barrett.at groover, n.
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 24: London, the Old Kent Road [...] It was wet and foggy; people called you ‘Sunny Jim’.at Sunny Jim, n.
1990 H. Kureishi Buddha of Suburbia 18: My God, you’re a bloody pure shitter! A bum-banger! My own son – how did it transpire?at shitter, n.2