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[UK] New Musical Express 20 July n.p.: Check from the chick-pic on the next page [KH].
at chick, adj.
[UK] New Musical Express 27 Oct. at backpages.com 🌐 Finally, he ends up dexed-up and pissed out of his brain on a rock off Brighton Beach where he achieves some kind of satori and reconciliation with himself.
at dexed, adj.
[UK] New Musical Express 27 Aug. 26: Arnett too has come in for plenty of brickbats from the palefaces, who called it R&B.
at paleface, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 27 Aug. 25: Killing his pain with an obscene blend of cheeseburgers and scag.
at scag, n.2
[UK] New Musical Express 3 June at backpages.com 🌐 There’s still a miraculously high energy level – no wimp-out, Jack; believe it – but what it’s about now is going berserk and enjoying yourself.
at wimp-out (n.) under wimp, n.1
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: Well that’s alright, but it’s too abstract, it’s too ethereal, too airy fairy to connect with me.
at airy-fairy, adj.
[UK] New Musical Express 12 May n.p.: Jimmy rides out, blocked and happy, on his multi-coloured scooter [KH].
at blocked, adj.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: A pair of dark glasses, maybe a stingy brim hat, with an inch-wide brim.
at stingy-brim, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: I [...] gave them all the jingoism and all the paraphernalia of Modism, boxing boots and fashionable things, right on the button, timing just right.
at on the button under button, n.1
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: There’d be all the faces and people that I knew. A face is just someone you recognise, you might not even know his name, but he’s known as a face.
at face, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: I think it’s a groove, I think it’s fabulous, man!
at groove, n.2
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: I was living this lovely life of Riley, where I was just listening to the music I liked.
at life of Riley, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: ’Cos there’s such a thing as Mod Suss – you know – sussing out a situation. That’s what Mods are about – suss out a situation immediately, its potential, controlling it.
at suss out, v.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: He had a great pair of trousers – they were stove-pipe trousers.
at stove-pipe, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: You go into the Green Room first, and you have a few sherberts to round the edge off the Drynamil.
at sherbet, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: ’Cos there’s such a thing as Mod Suss – you know – sussing out a situation. That’s what Mods are about – suss out a situation immediately, its potential, controlling it. [...] Without his style, his ‘suss’, it’s doubtful whether The Who would carry the cultural weight they do today.
at suss, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 7 Mar. n.p.: What every beefcake on the street has got on his head [KH].
at beefcake (n.) under beef, n.1
[UK] New Musical Express 7 Mar. n.p.: The first Mrs. Sovereign who ever did a day’s collar in her life [KH].
at collar, n.
[UK] New Musical Express 21 Mar. n.p.: The [...] still-incredible spectacle of the hard-core fanatics thrashing, dive-bombing off the stage , writhing (‘moshing’) in an uninhibited physical mania.
at mosh, v.3
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