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[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 28: Loads — a lethal combination of Codeine 4’s and Doriden, a potent sleep aid [...] Dors ’n’ fours, as some still called them.
at dors and 4s, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 152: Dope fiends don’t piss themselves like winos. Fuckin’ aye!
at fucking A!, excl.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 345: Make like Baskin-Robbins and give me a little taste.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 68: [of bad film scripts] Abortions could pile up for only so long.
at abortion, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 72: A succession of Armani’d mooks who pulled down all kinds of money.
at all kinds of, adv.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 84: I pushed my hotel slap-and-tickle as far as it would go.
at slap and tickle, n.2
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 210: His girlfriend swears up and down he’s still fucked-up.
at up-and-down, adv.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 38: We’d kick around, say, the best words for vagina.
at kick around, v.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 348: You never heard ’bout ‘Aunt Hazel’. That’s what all the cats used to call it [i.e. heroin].
at Aunt Hazel, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 226: Not out of some brass-balled, muy macho, criminal behavior.
at brass balls, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 314: Giving a half-assed imitation of my old phony-baloneyness.
at phoney-baloneyness (n.) under phoney-baloney, adj.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 162: I had to [...] try to squeeze out a third, potent-as-rainwater bang out of the still damp cotton.
at bang, n.1
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 41: The night after the transcendental barf-fest, I again spotted the Girl in White.
at barf, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 163: Big G’s bust-out ’76 Bonneville, a rusted baby blue barge.
at barge, n.1
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 342: Half the ’basers in the goddam Emergency Room aren’t even in there for coke.
at baser (n.) under base, v.2
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 176: Young Skip was quick to hop on the veggie-bashing bandwagon.
at bashing, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 84: What she called Beaucoup Cajun Bush. Grass so strong, I actually noticed being high.
at beaucoup, adj.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 284: Eager beaver that I was, I wanted to hop right behind that counter.
at eager beaver, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 20: Bill [...] drank like a fish and bellied up in his twenties from liver disease.
at belly up, v.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 138: Slumped behind a Hollywood Reporter, trying not to stare at my ‘better half’.
at better half, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 230: Buprenex is amazing stuff. With enough Betty Bupes in pocket, you can actually get off smack.
at Betty Bupe, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 148: One of the less-known, wholly unexpected secrets of Big League Geeze-dom.
at big-league, adj.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 292: College dropout, biker moll, borderline coke whore.
at biker, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 348: An open bindle that must have contained a gram or so of fluffy white powder.
at bindle, n.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 277: Those who come [to Arizona] just to pass the flu season are known as ‘snowbirds.’.
at snow bird, n.1
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 357: Jackie Charge, a bit of bizarro theater I’d written.
at bizarro, adj.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 89: Blind high when he X’s on the dotted line.
at blind, adv.1
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 179: When I was loaded and blissed-out enough to emerge [etc.].
at bliss out, v.
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 298: One of the old ladies, a hearty blue-hair straight out of Central Casting, Grandma Division, drew close.
at bluehair (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 205: What a bigot I was, what a close-minded cliché-ridden bo-bo.
at bobo, n.1
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