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The Flesh Peddlers choose

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[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 303: Her callow outlook on things was ready for any seduction. Double gaited, wired for A.C. or D.C.
at AC/DC, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 250: I’ve gotten two French shows and a London Revue, all titties and cans in tab form, set for next season.
at tits and ass, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 265: Thick as fleas, the two of them.
at thick as..., adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 327: Never petty, never ass-kissing or polishing the red apple for anyone.
at ass-kiss, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 181: It’s depressing, this fake O’Casey, fake Joyce, Ole Sod of Erin kiss-my-arse place, isn’t it?
at kiss-my-ass, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 134: Somehow everything seemed all bolixed up with my love life.
at ballocks (up), v.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 182: It’s all waterbugs now, way out. You ever drive one? No? It’s a big bang.
at bang, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 114: I don’t rat, amigo. I don’t beef.
at beef, v.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 252: The big-timers [...] were sleeping now after a night of tensions and table play.
at big-timer (n.) under big time, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 87: Next time I meet that Cockney hamola, Ronnie Galt, I’m going to knock his block off.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 167: Imagine that swine Boley letting a deal bobble.
at bobble, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 40: The new domestic family comedy [...] played for boffs and heart.
at boff, n.2
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 198: I drag out a bag (get this) which has five hundred clam shells in it – not money. Never failed to boff ’em.
at boff, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 341: Twice a week a boff after Chinese food and a kid every three years.
at boff, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 162: For old times sake I let him handle something I’ve been setting up for a year. He bombed.
at bomb, v.2
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 294: We live off [...] Cottage cheeses, clabber, nature’s products.
at bonny-clapper, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 146: Jay and I had to defend ourselves and we booped a few beaks.
at bop, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 118: Somebody usually steps in and stops a mean brannigan. This one went too far.
at brannigan, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 221: They’re not kidding down there, those Harvard brown-nosers.
at brown-noser, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 240: Don’t call me from King’s Place. I hear it’s bugged, every office wired.
at bug, v.4
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 318: I was bug-eyed with horror.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 202: The bloody beggars had cut out [...] the buggering sods are on their own arse.
at buggering, adj.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 197: He was always a top banana in burly.
at burley, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 260: We’re drinking, or talking bushwa.
at bushwa, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 284: Las Vegas [...] and its banging of cartwheel silver dollars.
at cartwheel, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 159: You didn’t go in for any of that daisy-chaining with Ira?
at daisy chain, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 74: He wasn’t a chinky really.
at Chinky, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 245: Have breakfast at the chuck wagon at the Ali Baba.
at chuck wagon (n.) under chuck, n.3
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 345: It was the cruelty of his methods, the imperial right he felt to make a circus when he dismissed you.
at circus, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 250: They caught his blackjack dealers cold-decking, didn’t they?
at cold-deck, v.1
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