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[US] Male mag. in H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 72: We’d go into a bar and someone’d mouth off or try to move in on our chicks and then we’d fight.
at chick, n.1
[US] Male mag. in H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 72: We’d go into a bar and someone’d mouth off or try to move in on our chicks and then we’d fight.
at mouth off (v.) under mouth, v.
[US] Male mag. in H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 72: ‘Listen, man, those beefs ain’t our fault,’ said a battle-scarred veteran of beer-hall punchouts.
at punch-out, n.
[US] Male mag. in H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 72: He could spin donuts on that hog with his feet on the pegs, and man, he was a wiggy cat.
at wiggy, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 185: He works as a labourer now and then, but only to stay eligible for unemployment insurance, known in outlaw circles as the 52-26 Club.
at 52-26 Club, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 244: The free-wheeling acid parties were already cause for alarm among the respectable LSD buffs.
at acid, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 220: People who make a living smuggling narcotics into the States operate on the same principle as bad-cheque artists, who do not as a rule wear beards, earrings or swastikas.
at -artist, sfx
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 135: The original Oakland Angels were hard-ass brawlers.
at hard-ass, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 65: Shit, this is the first time I ever read anything good about us [...] and you try to tell me the guy’s an asshole.
at asshole, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 184: The thing that really pisses me off is the newspapers [...] Even when we pull off some really bad shit, they still get it wrong.
at bad shit, n.2
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 44: One week later came the Time-Newsweek double-barrelled blast that really put the Angels over the top.
at double-barrelled, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 110: The San Francisco Examiner reported a Hell’s Angels plot to terrorize the annual Lion’s Club bean feed.
at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 202: Several of the outlaws located a girl [...] who agreed to make the beast with two backs in a small building set apart from the main house.
at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 122: Belly laughs at Jackie Gleason jokes.
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 20: Anything less would forfeit the spiritual leadership back to southern California to the San Bernardino (or Berdoo) chapter.
at Berdoo, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 133: Any blackjack, sling shot, billy, sandclub [...] and firearms of any type.
at billy, n.4
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 48: What a blast! Man, I tell you we had some real beefs.
at blast, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 85: About five times the size of the group that managed to blitz the national Press in 1965.
at blitz, v.2
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 92: Hell, yes, I’ll take a blow-job any day for ten bucks.
at blow job, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 223: They also take Amytal (‘blue heaven’).
at blue heaven (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 76: It boggles the nerves to consider what might happen.
at boggle, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 95: There was no need to spoil a new boom for the film.
at boom, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 205: I thought the term had something to do with an overdose of brain-ticklers – the maddened victim having slunk off in the woods like a sick animal, to ride out his delirium without disturbing the others.
at brain ticklers (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 60: What the hell – I got other ways to get bread.
at bread, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 27: So off I went to the bucket, for rape.
at bucket, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 139: They had been shunted off to a parched meadow nine or ten thousand feet up in the Sierras, but it was obviously a bum trip.
at bum trip (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 95: Man, it was a bummer, it wasn’t right.
at bummer, n.4
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 121: This is why we like to blow their minds. It just more or less burns ’em, that’s all.
at burn, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 60: The Frisco Angels had been severely burned after a series of articles in the Chronicle.
at burn, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels (1967) 44: Until the Monterey rape they were bush-league hoods known only to California cops.
at bush league, adj.
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