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[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 66: The relative merits of ‘frog kicks’ for the ‘abs’ as opposed to regular situps.
at ab, n.1
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 203: Donovan slurring acid-head images about Superman, Green Lantern, and a velvet theme.
at acid-head (n.) under acid, n.1
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 126: If it hadn’t been for that shitass car in Lafayette Park last night.
at shit-ass, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 35: He’s finally got his business going big.
at go big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 16: A slight crook in his nose keeps him from being a prettyboy.
at pretty-boy, n.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 154: But the man bugs the scene again. ‘Is that really all tan?’.
at bug, v.2
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 16: He has been described recurrently in homosexual jargon as ‘a very butch number’ [...] A supreme accolade in that world, ‘butch’ means very male and usually carries overtones of roughness; a ‘number’ is a potential or actual or merely desired partner in vagrant sex.
at butch number (n.) under butch, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 16: […] ‘butch’ means very male and usually carries overtones of roughness.
at butch, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 163: Simply a trashy, irrelevant book — but if I camp it up, it might be rather fun!
at camp about (v.) under camp, v.2
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 84: Motherfucker, Johnny thinks. Cocksucking motherfucker!
at cocksucking, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 221: Two girls, young and cute, give him come-on smiles.
at come-on, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 33: If I didn’t really God’s-truth need the bread, I’d make it with you for crazy.
at for crazy, phr.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 204: Hustling, Johnny would have spotted the man [...] as an easy mark — the kind who gets an instant crush.
at crush, n.2
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 201: The man who [...] then withdrew and later spat out the cum.
at cum, n.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 105: I got some fuck-movies at home.
at fuck, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 129: ‘Groovy,’ the guy in the sweatshirt calls out.
at groovy!, excl.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 62: Thirty more pounds and you’ll really have a body and a half!
at — and a half under half, n.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 54: Johnny would walk across the bridge to the honky-tonk stretch of the pier.
at honkytonk, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 28: With ‘her’ is a hoody-looking youngman, obviously a hustler.
at hoody, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 11: The hopped-up disc jockeys making bad jokes.
at hopped (up), adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 204: I met this guy here . . . like a stud horse . . . bigger’n my fist . . . thought I’d never get it out.
at hung like a horse under hung, adj.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 25: Is this why I’ve come back? To prove to myself I can still hustle?
at hustle, v.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 27: Johnny spots a male hustler here, an interested man there, a potential queen.
at hustler, n.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 185: He [...] is playing with himself with one hand while he jerks Johnny with the other.
at jerk, v.2
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 61: He stands very straight, spreading his ‘lats’ like batwings.
at lats, n.2
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 21: ‘Lord-uh-me!’ Hand-to-heart. ‘Where? have you? been, Johnny Rio?’.
at lordy me!, excl.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 33: ‘Oh, gee, mano,’ using the hip Mexican appellation, ‘I knew you weren’t the paying kind.’.
at mano, n.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 204: Hustling, Johnny would have spotted the man [...] as an easy mark.
at easy mark (n.) under mark, n.1
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 70: Oh, Mary, she’ll tell her ‘sisters,’ I’ll simply die all my life thinking of that living dream on the beach — the sexy number who saved me from those muscle queens.
at Mary!, excl.
[US] J. Rechy Numbers (1968) 28: (in male homosexual context) My ‘sisters’ and their ‘aunties’ are furnishing lots and lots of liquor, and I’m rounding up [...] the meat!
at meat, n.
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