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[US] J. Rechy City of Night 25: Then he walks by me, Hat slouched to one side, don’t-give-a-damn walk.
at don’t-give-a-damn (adj.) under not give a damn, v.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 92: The motorcyclists without bikes, the cowboys without horses, awol servicemen or on leave.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 49: I dont feel like fuckin around today [...] Lets just make the flix.
at fuck about, v.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 181: The more effeminate or ‘arty’ chorus-boy fairies.
at arty, adj.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 134: Im positively deadass tired.
at dead-ass, adv.2
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 116: Miss Bobbi says she was going to until Skipper came on so bigassedly.
at big-assedly (adv.) under big-ass, adj.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 28: No skinny wiseass punk pulls any shit on me.
at wise-ass, adj.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 174: We’ll get tanked on bees and pod.
at B, n.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 180: Stores and counter-restaurants, B-girled bars, Red-devil hotdog stands.
at B-girl, n.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 322: Dixieland bands become more numerous. Spasm bands sprout.
at spasm band, n.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 304: I told you to stop rattling your beads at me!
at rattle one’s beads (v.) under beads, n.2
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 40: I had only four bits.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 113: I got some sticks [...] you wanna blast?
at blast, v.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 200: He almost collapsed at the Pirate’s Den [...] They had to bounce him out!
at bounce, v.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 58: A queen boy-girl camped openly with a cop.
at boy-girl, n.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 197: I hadnt been strictly gay then, but Lance is a charmer — he was bringing me out fast.
at bring out (v.) under bring, v.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 174: On the dance-floor, too, lesbians – the masculine ones, the bulldikes – dance with hugely effeminate queens.
at bull-dyke, n.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 232: Lesbians — femme and bull types.
at bull, adj.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 27: All those lights, sure you think theyre Pretty [...] It’s bullshit — got the same fuckin lights in New Orleans.
at bullshit, n.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 162: I just got busted out of — the Marines.
at bust, v.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 97: I loved Chuck once [...] such a butch cowboy. [Ibid.] 181: A dike (a square shouldered butch lesbian).
at butch, adj.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 132: I don get no real buzz outta guys swinging on my joint.
at buzz, n.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 289: The butchest, straightest numbuh y’evuh laid yuh eyes on [...] Now look at him [...] a walkin camp if th’evuh was one!
at camp, n.2
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 158: That park’s for chippies, man! — hell, they go for pennies there!
at chippie, n.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 108: You go with the cholly, and I’ll cool it by the parking lot.
at cholly, n.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 35: Carlo [...] who took me home and for a week came on strong.
at come on strong (v.) under come on, v.1
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 131: You always ack like youre hyped up or comin off.
at come off, v.2
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 108: Miss Destiny [...] has begun to tell me about when she first came out and she became Miss Destiny.
at come out, v.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 197: All this cruising is bugging me.
at cruising, n.
[US] J. Rechy City of Night 99: Next to Miss Destinee’s pad theres this real swell cunt and she walks around all day in her brassiere.
at cunt, n.
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