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[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 8: Hendrix continues to jack up all our hidebound notions [...] and for this mucking about he deserves his own Mythologies or Grammatology.
at muck about, v.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 3: Aliens from a planet with a purple hazy atmosphere, not an acid trip.
at acid trip (n.) under acid, n.1
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 42: The broomstick straws he angrily found on the boy’s bedroom floor had dislodged during some furious air-guitar sessions.
at air guitar (n.) under air, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 140: That may be a load of crap, some airy-fairy, pie-in-the-sky stuff too.
at airy-fairy, adj.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 138: And then there’s James. Who somehow manages to hit all the notes they hit and then some.
at and then some!, excl.
[US] (con. 1960s) G. Tate Midnight Lightning 109: I didn’t realize until I was old enough and went on a date to the Black and Tan Club that it was a place where the Black men would go with their white women.
at black and tan club, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 111: Ahmad’s crew were mostly his cousins [...] They were ‘fine,’ bad-ass football players.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 31: This sorryass state of affairs.
at sorry-ass, adj.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 15: Trying to push the almighty axe into the wings if not the organ-trio dustbin of musical history.
at axe, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 111: They were ‘fine,’ ‘bad,’ hard-working brothers.
at bad, adj.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 55: Feminist author and activist Germaine Greer, reviled as a cliché pro-femme ballbuster in her time.
at ball-buster, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 54: The relationships he had with women were not just of the whambam variety.
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 7: Let no one bitch [...] over how they were tricked, misled, lied to, hoodwinked, or bamboozled.
at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 87: I didn’t really want to meet no other nigga, because by now I think I’m Big Daddy.
at big daddy, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 58: The Blaxploitation spy spoof.
at blaxploitation, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 85: He comes in, takes his little blow, and drops dead.
at blow, n.3
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 93: It blew our minds when he said that.
at blow someone’s mind, v.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 45: His scream-bloody-murder guitar.
at scream blue murder (v.) under blue murder, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 48: Its immediate embrace by Blackfolk is thanks to the booty-bouncing power of ‘Who Knows’.
at booty, n.2
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 97: The whole emotional only-child turmoil of a father-done-bounced and my mother.
at bounce, v.1
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 9: They’re just my buds, y’all.
at bud, n.1
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 87: We were chillin’ when one day out of the blue, the doorbell rings.
at chill (out), v.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 81: We had a total breakdown. It was like breakdown city.
at -city, sfx
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 87: Me and the girl clicked immediately.
at click, v.3
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 44: The [...] documentary of that performance shows Hendrix, gingerly conked hair looking like a mess of black flames, sporting a ruffled shirt.
at conked, adj.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 24: Selling hip Black rock to whites and the ’hood without making Blackfolk stare down their noses at they asses like they were alienated Oreos.
at Oreo (cookie), n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 59: ‘Hendrix,’ she gushes, ‘was my first crush.’.
at crush, n.2
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 4: His own mad children can’t ever stop themselves from cussing up a storm.
at cuss, v.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 35: He prized gut reactions above the whoring of razzle-dazzle.
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[US] G. Tate Midnight Lightning 45: Sold at auction by Sotheby’s for mucho dinero.
at dinero, n.
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