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The Holy Barbarians choose

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[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 155: Sponging, scrounging, borrowing and angle-shooting are too undependable as a regular source of income.
at angle-shooter (n.) under angle, n.
[US] (ref. to 1920s) L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 276: In every small town I hit during those days there was always someone to assure me that it was ‘the ass-hole of the world.’.
at arsehole of the universe (n.) under arsehole, n.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 71: It’s the old Oedipus bit, ain’ it?
at bit, n.1
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 315: Bugged – Bothered, bedeviled, unstrung.
at bugged, adj.1
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 21: But between fixes, coming down, he was one of the best sex partners I ever had.
at come down, v.3
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 316: A highpower lesbian [...] diesel-dyke, bull-dyke.
at diesel-dyke, n.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 24: I’m not modest either, dig?
at dig?, phr.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 27: Before I light up I’m drug with [...] ten thousand things.
at drug, adj.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 104: Sherry McCall is beat from in front as the bop boys of the forties would have put it.
at from in front, phr.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 160: Organized church worship...is religion ‘shorn of its hair and balls,’ as Chuck Bennison will tell you [HDAS].
at hair, n.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 186: And he hits up the whole thing and he ... starts nodding, you know, hanging. And this other guy, ... he’s hanging.
at hang, v.5
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 185: My old man and my old lady [...] hassle me all the time.
at hassle, v.1
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 83: Trying to do himself in, lushing, hyping, insane fucking, no sleep.
at hype, v.2
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 24: He took an overjolt and passed out.
at overjolt (n.) under jolt, n.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 22: Dolophenes are kick pills to alleviate the discomfort of being without heroin when you’re sick.
at kick, adj.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 186: It was an OD [...] of horse that led him back to marijuana.
at O.D., n.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 25: I didn’t shuck the customers enough to please the crook who was running the car lot.
at shuck, v.
[US] L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 21: He was no good when he was all tore up.
at tore up, adj.
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