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[UK] Nova Apr. 28: From frizzy Aquarians perfumed with weed, to demure biddies.
at biddy, n.2
[UK] Nova Apr. 99: Bully for you. You’re what made America great. A real gunslinger.
at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
[UK] Nova Apr. 95: I don’t want to butt in.
at butt in, v.
[UK] Nova Apr. 83: Turned on, dropped out, freaked out, bad trip, power to the people, Free Angela: all nice cool sounds that are already in the West acquiring a quaint patina.
at cool, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 90: The mean bugger never cracked one of those bottles for the lads.
at crack, v.2
[UK] Nova Apr. 81: I would like a man to be crazy about something, really involved with something.
at crazy for (adj.) under crazy, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 83: I don’t think many people dig what it’s about. It’s heavy. Really heavy.
at dig, v.3
[UK] Nova Apr. 83: Walls plastered with Mick Jagger, Steve McQueen and all the impossible riches of the occident: their ideals, their dreamboats.
at dreamboat, n.
[UK] Nova Apr. 97: I just get a little sad about people who come over here to make a fat buck.
at fat, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 83: The boys [...] had acquired jargon which even in Japanese pop periodicals is being used decoratively, with no real concept of meaning: turned on, dropped out, freaked out.
at freak out, v.
[UK] Nova Apr. 99: Now I suppose you’re going to say ‘napalm’. That frigging magic word.
at frigging, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 83: The fuzz here is really scared about drugs because of the American scene.
at fuzz, n.1
[UK] Nova Apr. 92: I’ve promised him there are lots of things that aren’t gooey, it’s not like Chinese food.
at gooey, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 99: You’re what made America great. A real gunslinger.
at gun-slinger, n.
[UK] Nova Apr. 88: The driver digs up the floor-boards and studies the guts of his engine.
at gut, n.
[UK] Nova Apr. 92: ‘The hell,’ Rabbit says. ‘You stick right with us and suffer for once.’.
at hell, the, phr.
[UK] Nova Apr. 81: Sniffing furniture polish in plastic bags for their only available cheap ‘high’.
at high, n.
[UK] Nova Apr. 97: It really burns me up to listen to hotshot crap-car salesmen [...] bitching about a country that’s been stuffing goodies into their mouths since they were born.
at hot-shot, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 95: ‘Ick,’ Nelson says.
at ick!, excl.
[UK] Nova Apr. 99: This country is so zonked out on its own acid, so deep in its own fat and babble and filth.
at zonked (out), adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 95: He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled.
at rattled, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 99: This is getting too rich.
at rich, adj.
[UK] Nova Apr. 36: It’s a lot of money but the thought of having shelled it out does keep you going.
at shell out (v.) under shell, v.
[UK] Nova Apr. 16: Others will know from the past that yours is something more than a skin-rag.
at skin mag (n.) under skin, adj.2
[UK] Nova Apr. 97: Yeah, don’t go, Charlie, stick around and humour the madman.
at stick around (v.) under stick, v.
[UK] Nova Apr. 83: An acid tab is about £2.
at tab, n.7
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