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Mott the Hoople choose

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[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 180: ‘What do you say, doll? Want to go upstairs?’ It was the B-girl, a big shtup of a blonde, sitting on my lap.
at B-girl, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 18: Come on, baby. Let’s lighten up [...] Let’s ball awhile.
at ball, v.2
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 159: I belted down several shots.
at belt, v.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 9: There is a sound more endearing than the burble of a dickeybird.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 41: He was a great cheese of a man.
at cheese, n.1
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 90: Mott the Yid [...] jumped out of the car, pulling at where his pants met the crack of his buttocks.
at crack, n.3
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 25: My card [...] All it says is ‘John Doe — Madman’.
at John Doe, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 180: ‘What do you say, doll? Want to go upstairs?’ It was the B-girl, a big shtup of a blonde, sitting on my lap.
at doll, n.1
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 206: I extended a limp faggotty hand and said Enchanté.
at faggoty, adj.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 127: You think I dig freak sex?
at freak, adj.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 148: Ever been goosed from behind by another car while doing sixty mph?
at goose, v.3
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 31: I hid behind a tree until the grousers dispersed.
at grouse, v.1
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 69: Leroy went off, diddledybopping along like the Harlem hippie he once was.
at hippie, n.2
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 129: It’s composed of equal parts of anti-Communism, evangelism, and good old fashioned American hokum.
at hokum, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 23: A lummox like me, a real Hoople, gets away scot free.
at hoople, n.2
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 140: Some shanty Irish who get juiced up.
at shanty Irish, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 36: I’ve been taking a new drug that jazzes up the thyroid.
at jazz up (v.) under jazz, v.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 18: I laughed and rumpled her hair. ‘Come on, baby. Let’s lighten up.’.
at lighten up, v.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 47: ‘Shubiedoo!’ he’d sing out when a particularly good-looking girl drove up. [...] ‘White meat with lots of gravy!’.
at white meat, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 155: Yew dress up in a monkey suit and drive that cigar-smoking nigrah wherever he wants to go?
at monkey suit, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 55: Give ’em a spiel and a little razzamatazz.
at razzmatazz, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 180: ‘What do you say, doll? Want to go upstairs?’ It was the B-girl, a big shtup of a blonde, sitting on my lap.
at schtup, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 68: The place literally stank of money.
at stink of (v.) under stink, v.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 51: Let’s [...] make love under the stars, put grass stains on your tukkis.
at toches, n.
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 194: The whole ball of wax — job, woman, marriage.
at the whole ball of wax (n.) under wax, n.2
[UK] W. Manus Mott the Hoople 96: Some were pacifists, [...] some old-time wobblies.
at wobbly, n.1
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