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(ref. to 1930s) in N.Y. Rev. of Bks 31 Aug. 🌐 There was then [i.e. 1930s] a regular joke about ‘the Mexican breakfast: a cigarette and a piss’.at Mexican breakfast (n.) under Mexican, adj.
(ref. to 1930s) in N.Y. Rev. of Bks 31 Aug. 🌐 There was then [i.e. 1930s] a regular joke about ‘the Mexican breakfast: a cigarette and a piss’. N.Y. Rev. of Books 26 Jan. 22: It’s a group grope at Esalen [...] an orgy of touching, palpating, feeling, stroking.at group grope, n.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 7 Oct. 🌐 Mrs. Ras Mohun’s stock response to behavior that displeased her was to say, ‘Don’t be a jungly boy,’ or ‘That’s what jungly boys do.’.at jungly, adj.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 7 Apr. 🌐 In his new novel, Nicholson Baker turns his full attention to the lonely art, the art of masturbation.at lonely art (n.) under lonely, adj.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 18 Nov. 33: That elusive ‘break’ that would bring in pots of money.at pot, n.1
N.Y. Rev. of Books 18 Nov. 27: They had a sovereign contempt for the Somalis, whom they called ‘skinnies’ or ‘sammies’.at sammy, n.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 13 June 5/2: The ‘short-timers’’ abracadabra magic word was figmo — ‘Fuck It, Got My Orders’.at f.i.g.m.o., phr.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 14 Feb. 33/1: At the end of my adventures I was drinking a case of 16-ounce tallboys a night.at tall boy (n.) under tall, adj.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 27 Sept. 8/4: And there were the same boneheads among them.at bonehead, n.1
in N.Y. Rev. of Books 17 Apr. 14/4: An action that Obama has numerous times described as ‘a mistake,’ and ‘boneheaded’.at boneheaded, adj.
in N.Y. Rev. of Books 17 Apr. 14/4: Every Campaign has ‘oppo’ (for opposition) research.at oppo, n.
N.Y. Rev. of Books 16/1: Whern Obama launched into his story with ‘Because I love pie,’ a woman [...] shouted back ‘I’ll make you pie, baby!’ [...] and to the general hooting laughter the candidate returned [...] ‘You gonna make me sweet potato pie?’.at sweet potato pie (n.) under sweet, adj.1
N.Y. Rev. of Books 26 Feb.–11 Mar. 5/1: He and Ella had to hightail it out of town.at hightail, v.
NY Rev. Books 9-22 Dec. 12/2: He was watching a girl he had a crush on.at crush, n.2
NY Rev. Books 9-22 Dec. 24/2: The fricking princess thinks that the FARC built this castle for her alone.at fricking, adj.
NY Rev. Books 9-22 Dec. 12/4: There’s perhaps a bit of the ‘gay grapple’ about it, that extra determination with which a gay actor [...] goes at a straight love scene.at gay, adj.
NY Rev. Books 17 Mar. 🌐 This may flippin’ take me all day.at flipping, adj.
NY Rev. Books 17 Mar. 🌐 Palin isn’t even sure God will help her; though she cries out to Him [...] ‘Help me, Lord’ and ‘I’m scared . . . Holy Jeez!’.at jeez!, excl.
NY Rev. Books 17 Mar. 🌐 Palin [...] cuts up bloody fish and even briefly slings hash in a diner.at sling, v.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 I would in effect teach them how to camp—how to reverse genders systematically, how to drop hints one was gay (called ‘dropping beads’).at drop one’s beads (v.) under beads, n.2
NY Rev. Books 21 June 🌐 California, which has the most public school students, tends to come at things from the opposite side, pressing for more reflection of a crunchy granola worldview.at crunchy (granola), n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 Because I’d hung out in Chicago’s gay coffee shops [...] I knew that someone who liked well-hung men was ‘a size queen,’ just as someone with a small penis was ‘Princess Pencil Meat’.at pencil dick, n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 I would in effect teach them how to camp—[...] how to label a guy who likes blacks (‘a dinge queen’) or Asians (‘a rice queen’).at dinge queen (n.) under dinge, adj.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 I would in effect teach them how to camp—[...] how to refer to oneself (as Auden does in a poem) as ‘Miss Me’ or ‘Your Mother’.at Miss, n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 I would in effect teach them how to camp—[...] how to refer to oneself (as Auden does in a poem) as ‘Miss Me’ or ‘Your Mother’.at mother, n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 I would in effect teach them how to camp—[...] how to label a guy who likes blacks (‘a dinge queen’) or Asians (‘a rice queen’).at potato queen (n.) under potato, n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 Because I’d hung out in Chicago’s gay coffee shops [...] I knew that someone who liked well-hung men was ‘a size queen,’ just as someone with a small penis was ‘Princess Pencil Meat’.at princess, n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 I would in effect teach them how to camp—[...] how to label a guy who likes blacks (‘a dinge queen’) or Asians (‘a rice queen’).at rice queen (n.) under rice, n.
(con. early 1960s) in N.Y. Rev. Bks 25 Oct. 🌐 Because I’d hung out in Chicago’s gay coffee shops [...] I knew that someone who liked well-hung men was ‘a size queen,’ just as someone with a small penis was ‘Princess Pencil Meat’.at size queen (n.) under size, n.3
NYRB 9 Mar. 🌐 A twiggy white kid in Dickies pants, wearing a bulging fanny pack.at fanny pack (n.) under fanny, n.1
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