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[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 36: Next time I took a floater, 90 days suspended.
at floater, n.3
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 15: Most state pens pay a little and give a man ‘gate money’.
at gate money (n.) under gate, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 16: We heard this morning that 25 guys in jail got kickouts to go pick apples.
at kickout, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 57: Those punk cops are busy playing grab-ass — they’re all queer.
at play grab-ass (v.) under grab-ass, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 53: Breakfast: Birdseed mush.
at birdseed, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 61: I’m [...] glad the T.B. diagnosis was negative. I do not believe the ‘bug’ could survive long in my alky cooling and fuel steam.
at bug, n.4
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 58: Traffic cases first, drunks finaly [sic] at 10.00 a.m., 20 at a clip.
at clip, n.1
[US] in J. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 230: They are essentially alcoholics and have gone through it cold turkey so many times, they can handle it.
at cold turkey, adv.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 35: A well-dressed gent, New Year’s day, hands bums/dings a buck.
at ding, n.2
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 30: I had twenty-three bucks when booked. Now they tell me I’ve only got $3.30. I guess I’m a fucked duck—I’ve got twenty days hanging [HDAS].
at fucked duck (n.) under fucked, adj.1
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 47: Judge blows a gasket.
at blow a gasket (v.) under gasket, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 57: Warren came back with a few raw potatoes (Irish apples).
at Irish apple (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 46: Mush – soup – Supper of meatless stew.
at mush, n.1
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 42: Says you don’t have to take a ‘nose dive’ my place.
at nosedive, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 29: Nothing is read — could strain the optics.
at optic, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 58: Show him my minor nasty-looking wound. Took me to the ‘pill-roller’.
at pill-roller (n.) under pill, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 36: Have a gent light a cigarette and then flush butt down shitter when you’re dying for a smoke.
at shitter, n.1
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 223: I’m getting shaky and anxious because I’m on short time. [...] Short time is hard time and the last few days are the hardest to do.
at short time, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 34: I [...] depended on sis-in-law and nephew.
at sis, n.
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 48: Believe I’m not being ‘spanked’ for being drunk but for not having $20 license fee.
at spank, v.1
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 41: Salvation Army stiffs are clannish. They spot a non-stiff and feel superior.
at stiff, n.1
[US] in J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 229: I put on a T-shirt and suntans.
at suntans (n.) under sun, n.
[US] J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk 99: Flopping is the most common word, but such synonyms as sleeping, corking out, and crapping out are also used.
at cork out (v.) under cork, v.1
[US] J.P. Spradley You Owe Yourself a Drunk 116: ‘Crummies,’ or cabooses, are often kept heated for those who travel in them.
at crummy, n.3
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