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[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 76: An alki-stiff is a tramp who drinks druggist’s alcohol.
at alky stiff (n.) under alky, adj.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (2008) 127: A wild band of young revolutionists invited me as the guest of honor to a beer bust.
at beer bust (n.) under beer, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 152: A wild band of revolutionists invited me as the guest of honor to a beer bust.
at bust, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 76: John Barleycorn whsispering to me that life is big [...] and telling the two-by-four, cut-and-dried conventional world to go hang.
at two-by-four, adj.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 78: Oh! John Barleycorn is a wizard dopester. Brain and body, scorched and jangled and poisoned, return to be tuned up by the very poison that caused the damage.
at dopester, n.2
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 122: Another jingle was financed with pennies begged on the main-drag.
at main drag, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 137: We were frazzled wrecks.
at frazzled, adj.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 6: He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers.
at funny pages, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 171: Alcohol became more and more imperative [...] I had to get the kick and the hit of the stuff.
at hit, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 111: The place where men hobnobbed with John Barleycorn.
at hob nob, v.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 108: Nita, who sold us red-hots at the candy store, was a friend of Ruth.
at red hot, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 24: I read as I walked to and from school, and I read at recess while the other boys were playing. I began to get the ‘jerks.’ To everybody I replied: ‘Go away. You make me nervous.’ [* this is not alcohol induced].
at jerks, n.1
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 73: Two or three more saloons, and I accumulate a warm jingle.
at jingle, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 1: I was pleasantly jingled.
at jingled, adj.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 126: Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication, too, has its katzenjammer.
at katzenjammer, n.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 166: I wasn’t jingled, I wasn’t lighted up.
at lit (up), adj.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 152: They had got their previous guest [...] a brilliant young radical, unskilled in drinking, quite pipped.
at pipped, adj.1
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 42: Take my tip. French Frank’s ugly.
at ugly, adj.
[US] J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 143: I was trying to get work as a wop, lumper, and roustabout.
at wop, n.1
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