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[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 64: There were about thirty Angels looning about in the front room.
at loon (about/off), v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 112: We were looking for aggravation with them.
at aggravation, n.2
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 142: I kept hearing rumours of the back-talk that was going on in the other camp.
at back-talk, n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 42: We had a beautiful time.
at beautiful, adj.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 89: We voted to split to a strip bar and spent the evening boozing and picking up bitches.
at bitch, n.1
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 87: The Fisherman’s Wharf dance for Geno Haniki’s widow was a mind-blowing event.
at mind-blowing, adj.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 30: I [...] hung round with a crew up there setting fire to mansions early in the morning and bopping skinheads.
at bop, v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 30: I hing around in the background with the ton-up boys.
at ton-up boy, n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 104: He sounded like a bratty kid who gets mad at another kid riding his bike.
at bratty, adj.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 70: An Angel found an appropriately shaped rock [...] and brought one of the women on using it.
at bring on (v.) under bring, v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 101: Most of the Frisco chapter earned their brown wings on this occasion.
at brown wings (n.) under brown, adj.2
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 147: I received some heavy complaints regarding burn artists and protection.
at burn artist (n.) under burn, v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 30: We used to do a round of all the cafes in town every night, with burn-ups to the North Circular.
at burn(-up), n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 119: I was pretty bushed.
at bushed, adj.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 32: We weren’t going to bust them.
at bust, v.1
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 52: Harley Pete and the Road Rats busted the cafe.
at bust, v.1
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 89: She gave a startled yell and ended up on her butt in the middle of the highway.
at butt, n.1
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 155: I cornered him. Argued, spat, called him down and he hit me.
at call down, v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 90: They were camping it up like a couple of kids.
at camp about (v.) under camp, v.2
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 32: I was thoroughly cheesed off with the way things were happening.
at cheesed (off), adj.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 16: On their massive chopped thundering Harley 74’s.
at chop, v.2
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 81: [picture caption] Tramp, Sergeant-at-Arms, doing a wheelie on his chopper.
at chopper, n.1
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 32: At that time I had strict principles about busting other groups who were wearing the colours.
at colours, n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 132: She started coming this crush where she was the film director’s wife.
at come the..., v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 71: I’d get stoned on reds some nights and just crash out.
at crash (out), v.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 30: I [...] hung round with a crew up there.
at crew, n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 16: Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters turn on the Angels to LSD, DMT, and Christ knows what.
at d.m.t., n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 35: My friends [...] didn’t appreciate having to go through a third degree routine to get to see me.
at third degree, n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 59: It’s just the papers capitalising on dirt again.
at dirt, n.
[Can] J. Mandelkau Buttons 120: I had innumerable hot dog riders and biker toughies visiting me with intentions of joining up.
at hot dog, adj.1
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