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[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Bads News’ in Some Hope (1994) 148: I was barrelling along at eighty through Utah.
at barrel, v.2
[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ Some Hope (1994) 85: Amanuensis? Bumboy, you mean.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ in Some Hope (1994) 92: I thought that Nicholas Pratt was a total creep.
at creep, n.
[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Bads News’ in Some Hope (1994) 283: The needle fever had a psychological life of its own. What better way to be at once the fucker and the fucked, the subject and the object.
at fucker, n.
[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ in Some Hope (1994) 47: The grateful cabbie and the assiduous porter, both calling him ‘Guv’ simultaneously.
at Guv, n.
[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Bads News’ Some Hope (1994) 194: ‘I was going to stick you,’ he said, proudly showing Patrick a small knife.
at stick, v.
[UK] E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ Some Hope (1994) 41: All Nicholas’s friends were such wrinklies and some of them were a real yawn.
at yawn, n.
[UK] E. St Aubyn Some Hope 332: They said you were ‘chippy’.
at chippy, adj.2
[UK] E. St Aubyn Some Hope 342: She had started ‘using’, [...] taking drugs, in the sixties, because it was ‘a gas’.
at gas, n.1
[UK] E. St Aubyn Some Hope 317: When we took gear at parties, all we saw was the inside of the loos.
at loo, n.1
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