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[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 25: Young peoples in the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. [...] don’t give a single lump of cat’s s—t for the bomb.
at not give a shit, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 97: I don’t care a f—k what the French call it.
at not give a fuck, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 19: Don’t come the acid drop.
at come the (old) acid (v.) under acid, n.2
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 78: I could introduce you to several [...] in-and-out boys and several corpses.
at in-and-out boy, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 54: Doesn’t care for the angle, Hoplite, or doesn’t care for you personally.
at angle, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 31: The poor old ape was such an H-Certificate product.
at ape, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 63: That dreadful old cub master [...] was queer as a coot and even queerer.
at ...a coot under queer as..., adj.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 60: Anyone can have a bash, that’s obvious.
at bash, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 151: ‘It’s just, Wiz,’ I said, trying a final bash, ‘that I thought what I told you would disgust you too.’.
at bash, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 9: Crazy seagulls [...] almost bashing their beaks against the circular plate glass.
at bash, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 34: I bet [...] you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.
at bashing, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 197: So I batted along, and I tried to make conversation with the kiddo.
at bat, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 41: A great deal of a lot of beating around the bush.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 40: The two beefo Malts who walked between us, oozing virility and no deodorant.
at beefo (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 54: Not bent at all, though I had hopes that perhaps he dabbled.
at bent, adj.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 119: Some prints that would be so sensational that I’d make the big time in the papers and magazines.
at big time, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 124: The classical choir-boy manoeuvre that every self-respecting bitch most cordially disapproves of.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 76: Some musicians there in the Dubious had begun to have a blow.
at blow, n.3
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 94: I asked the Katz pair if I could use their blower, and called up Suze’s W.2 apartment.
at blower, n.2
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 50: I just can’t bear paying more than a bob or two to landlords.
at bob, n.3
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 15: Suzette [...] enjoys the life, and naturally is very popular among the boys.
at boys, the, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 121: The men looking like dutiful schoolkids with their briefcases and brollies.
at brolly, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 43: No velvet-lined frock-coat, no bootlace tie, no four-inch solid corridor-creepers.
at brothel creepers, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 132: These hefty rugger-b—r types are so damn boyish, and beneath their thick heads, such bullies.
at rugger bugger, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 175: Now you listen to me [...] and I don’t give a b——r what you think.
at not give a bugger (v.) under bugger, n.3
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 187: The disproportionate number of coloured ‘bullies’ could not be denied.
at bully, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 44: He lived a high old life [...] smashing crockery in all-night caffs and crowning distinguished colleagues with tyre levers.
at caf, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 56: Showing no sign of grief to this piece of pure camposity.
at camposity (n.) under camp, n.2
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 110: Zesty-Boy [...] started writing for the top pop canaries, and made piles.
at canary, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 71: Behind the counter was a female case who didn’t like the appearance of the dean.
at case, n.1
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