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Through Beatnik Eyeballs choose

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[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 84: Then, wham, I black out and lose the happenings till a.m. come.
at a.m., n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 80: It struck me as a fair example of a barrel-house.
at barrelhouse, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 15: They plainly disgruntled now I quit my pad and become a beat.
at beat, n.3
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 13: They not hipsters, you understand, just beat.
at beat, adj.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 73: Now I no lily-livered yellow-belly.
at yellow belly, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 83: This be highly scat, likewise strictly for the sparrows, cos Moms been proved wrong.
at for the birds under bird, n.1
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 28: Got you no bloke [...] Poor you, nothing to do in the evenings.
at bloke, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 80: I told her she was crazy and bugged.
at bugged, adj.1
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 15: Little kids bug me with their bull-jive, even gets to throwing garbage at me.
at bull-jive, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 18: Could bundle as well as most studs and lost me no time in ramming their dents down their throats.
at bundle, v.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 25: I soon busted out this class cos I wasn’t making no headway date-wise.
at bust out, v.2
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 16: Soon as I found I could scrape bread from doing a few oil paint signs, I give it the go-by.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 13: I got to admit it, I’m a clinker from way out, strictly heading for nowhere.
at clinker, n.7
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 39: Now this strike me as far from corn in any way.
at corn, n.2
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 26: Up till now I been a made-up cube.
at cube, n.2
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 18: Could bundle as well as most studs and lost me no time in ramming their dents down their throats.
at dentals, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 14: I not going to play dicty like I higher up the ladder.
at dicty, adj.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 19: Had me these three rag-dolls which I plainly brought to life. Gave them handles and ages, made them cute little drag.
at drag, n.1
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 31: I did drag up smart for this guy.
at drag up (v.) under drag, n.1
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 21: She give me a smile from Endsville.
at Endsville, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 16: It blacken me that he dislike to eyeball my bare feet.
at eyeball, v.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 25: Fair near knocked a chick’s fise-box off one time.
at facebox (n.) under face, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 37: This leader stud come forward. ‘Give me five,’ he say and extend his hand.
at give me five! (excl.) under five, n.2
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 13: Got me a couple of gassers which really enliven me, and mostly we just defy what we don’t dig.
at gasser, n.2
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 24: About this time I bought me a git-box and got to playing some real gutbucket.
at gitbox, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 14: If barmen wasn’t so keen on the green stuff they’d belt peoples away before they got really soaked.
at green stuff (n.) under green, adj.1
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 62: She jiving so high-hat like it her stud she want to hear, no-one else.
at high-hat, adv.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 17: They even sent me to a head doctor.
at head doctor (n.) under head, n.
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 54: The pad not really hopping till half-time.
at hop, v.1
[UK] R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 30: This guy I been giving the igg at work, up and say: ‘Lady witch, like you to rave with me some place?’ [Ibid.] 80: Real sudden-like she pull away, give me the igg.
at give the ig (v.) under ig, v.
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