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Real Bohemia xx: The purchases are made in cash: an ace ($1).at ace, n.
Real Bohemia xx: The purchases are made in cash: an ace ($1). Real Bohemia 26: By August 1959, though, the terms ‘Beat Generation,’ ‘Beatster,’ ‘Hipster,’ and ‘Beatnik’ [...] had been used in almost broadside fashion to label anything remotely believed to be connected with Bohemia.at beat, n.3
Real Bohemia 62: I hit the bricks soon afterwards, and headed back to Frisco.at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
Real Bohemia xiii: bug out, to to become psychotic.at bug out, v.2
Real Bohemia 77: Since his discharge he has ‘bummed around,’ writing poetry, still drinking.at bum, v.3
Real Bohemia xx: If the dealer then fails to show with the drug, the addict has been ‘burned’.at burn, v.
Real Bohemia 62: I was stuck in the shooting gallery, cold turkey.at cold turkey, adv.
Real Bohemia 166: I had no idea what was coming down until she split the pad and reappeared with two harness bulls.at come down, v.2
Real Bohemia xiii: blast crap, to to smoke marijuana.at crap, n.1
Real Bohemia 51: The sexual relationships are almost exclusively between Negro men and Caucasian women. (This reversal has been called ‘Crow-Jimism’).at crow jim, n.
Real Bohemia 58: Substitutes for heroin are paregoric (PG) and the synthetics, Dolophine (‘dollies’) and Dilaudid (‘dilly-dad’).at dilly-dad, n.
Real Bohemia xx: The purchases are made in cash: an ace ($1) [...] nickel ($5), dime.at dime, n.
Real Bohemia xi: He became known as [...] ‘Margaret Mead in drag’.at drag, n.1
Real Bohemia xx: The drugs are either inhaled, swallowed or injected [...] To take orally is to ‘drop it’.at drop, v.6
Real Bohemia xiv: drug a person who is bored is ‘drugged’.at drug, adj.
Real Bohemia xx: The addict makes payment in advance for the drugs (‘fronts the necessary’).at front, v.3
Real Bohemia 62: I turned into the slammer [hospital]. I was stuck in the shooting gallery, cold turkey [withdrawal ward, without sedation].at shooting gallery, n.
Real Bohemia xiv: gas the best, the most.at gas, adj.
Real Bohemia 51: Spade [Negro] guy I know is a gasser – a beautiful person.at gasser, n.2
Real Bohemia 58: The dissolved drug is drawn up through a needle (the ‘point’) and then injected through the skin (’geezed’).at geeze (up), v.
Real Bohemia 61: I’ve been trying to boot the habit for the past three months. Right now, I’m clean.at kick the habit (v.) under habit, n.
Real Bohemia xv: hang-up a fixed pattern of behaviour [...] a habit is one’s hang-up.at hang-up, n.2
Real Bohemia xv: happy farm mental hospital.at happy farm (n.) under happy, adj.
Real Bohemia 166: I had no idea what was coming down until she split the pad and reappeared with two harness bulls.at harness bull (n.) under harness, n.
Real Bohemia 166: We had been hasseling for days.at hassle, v.1
Real Bohemia xx: To take nasally is to ‘horn,’ ‘sniff,’ or ‘snort’.at horn, v.2
Real Bohemia 167: I was caught off guard, but that’s the way the man shows, on a hummer when you least expect it.at hummer, n.2
Real Bohemia 61: I turned out on heroin for the first time in 1957 [...] and by ’58, I was really making it [constantly using].at make it, v.
Real Bohemia 58: Heroin [...] is the drug of many aliases: ‘horse, H, schmeck, junk, jazz, jive’.at jazz, n.
Real Bohemia 64: Vicious cycles get started: Seconals to go to sleep with, Dexedrines to wake up with, and alcohol during the day for the jitters.at jitters, the, n.
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