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[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 204: They busted him right there in the airport [...] Break a leg, sucker.
at break a leg!, excl.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 38: You went from Michoacàn to Acapulco Gold and then to Panama Red.
at Acapulco (gold), n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 62: Chop up the crystals, divide the pile into ‘lines’, one for each nostril – call it a one and one – and with a bank note of impressive denomination rolled into a straw ... snort.
at one-and-one, n.2
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 146: Everybody and his mother is going to be there.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 174: Awesome. Blood and raw meat.
at awesome, adj.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 40: Kendricks looked at the sky and frowned. ‘Balls,’ he said out loud. It rained.
at balls!, excl.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 112: A staff which was beefed up to 2,200 during the first year of its operation.
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 40: The implications of which were staggering and not a little bit frightening to a man who had been doing Black Beauties for thirty hours.
at black beauty (n.) under black, adj.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 186: Rubia de la costa, the blonde from the coast, the finest, complete dynamite ‘up’ grass in the world. Take a hit.
at blonde, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 94: He could hit you with lids, caps, keys, tabs, nickel bags, blotters, buttons, spoons and everything from milligrams to boatloads.
at blotter, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 73: The stuff they blow on the street is shit compared with what we’re doing.
at blow, v.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 13: The Bolivian brain food they had ingested was only one course in a sublime international feast.
at Bolivian marching powder, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now.
at brain ticklers (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 186: He opened up a brick of the strangest-looking marijuana Swan had ever seen. It was white.
at brick, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 94: Here was some dude, not even a chemistry major, coming on to you with mikes, grams, bricks, kilos and hundredweights.
at brick, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now.
at brown, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 94: He could hit you with lids, caps, keys, tabs, nickel bags, blotters, buttons, spoons and everything from milligrams to boatloads.
at button, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 94: He could hit you with lids, caps, keys, tabs, nickel bags, blotters, buttons, spoons and everything from milligrams to boatloads.
at cap, n.4
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now.
at cartwheel, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels, chalk [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now.
at chalk, n.3
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 82: An entire issue of Time Magazine rolled around almost half an ounce of Colombian chiba-chiba.
at chiba, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 19: The chow wagon moved rapidly along the cell block.
at chow wagon (n.) under chow, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels, chalk, Christmas trees [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now.
at Christmas tree, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 33: He and Holly were chumming around with Hollywood types.
at chum along with (v.) under chum, v.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 52: He got clipped for over $2,700.
at clip, v.1
[US] (ref. to 1960s) R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels, chalk, Christmas trees, coast-to-coasts [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now.
at coasts to coasts, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 17: A joint, eighty-dollar Colombian, passing clockwise around.
at Colombian, n.
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 41: The speed was losing its edge. He was coming down fast.
at come down, v.3
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 84: He was a very casual fellow, a good con.
at con, n.1
[US] R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 107: René was on his way to Bogotá to meet Ricardo’s connection.
at connection, n.
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