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[US] H.S. Thompson letter 25 Oct. in Proud Highway (1997) 20: Nothing worse than a bust could result from it.
at bust, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 25 Oct. in Proud Highway (1997) 21: Until then, I remain, crazed with power and hell bent for the worst kind of infamy...
at hellbent, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 12 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 34: I was thrown out of the club for calling the night manager a crude, numbwit ass.
at numbwit (adj.) under numb, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 11 Nov. in Proud Highway (1997) 29: Good Luck and here’s hoping that you’re always ‘shoe’.
at shoe, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 1 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 33: I’m going out to look for someone to [...] suck up a few with me at a smoky grotto called ‘Trader John’s’.
at suck up, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 29 June Proud Highway (1997) 56: At least no one worth a damn.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 12 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 79: They don’t give a damn if the headlines make any sense or not.
at not give a damn, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 6 Feb. in Proud Highway (1997) 43: My long-term contract with the ‘bird division’ doesn’t expire until 1959.
at bird division (n.) under bird, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 28 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 88: I probably won’t starve in the event I fail to crack the newspaper job market.
at crack, v.2
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 6 Feb. Proud Highway (1997) 44: You’re the first person I’ve heard from who failed to mention the possibility of flunking out of school.
at flunk, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 3 Mar. in Proud Highway (1997) 45: The list of flunkees and potential flunkees is imposing.
at flunky, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 13 July in Proud Highway (1997) 58: Banks gave the waitress a hard time for not calling him the new Aga Kahn.
at give someone a hard time (v.) under hard time, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 17 Oct. in Proud Highway (1997) 68: I talked to one of the ‘discharge honchos’ today.
at honcho, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 12 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 79: Screw it all: if this path leads up, then I’d rather go down.
at screw it! (excl.) under screw, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 4 Nov. in Proud Highway (1997) 73: It took a few shots in the dark, a few master strokes, and no little luck.
at shot in the dark (n.) under shot, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 3 May in Proud Highway (1997) 53: That lowest and most odious of all humans – the welcher.
at welcher, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 5 Aug. in Proud Highway (1997) 61: I [...] do my best to whomp up orgies every now and then.
at whomp up (v.) under whomp, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 5 Aug. in Proud Highway (1997) 61: I returned from a three-day whomp in New Orleans.
at whomp, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 6 June in Proud Highway (1997) 127: I am hounded by creditors, bugged by the police, threatened with eviction [...] and stone broke.
at stone broke, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 31 Mar. in Proud Highway (1997) 113: Christ on a crutch, man: if you people are as hard up for writers as you appear to be, then you need help in the worst way!
at Christ on a crutch! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 19 May in Proud Highway (1997) 123: So I evaded his first charge and tried to cool him off.
at cool off, v.2
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 23 Jan. in Proud Highway (1997) 102: One is a Harvard grad, one a Yale grad.
at grad, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 6 Jan. in Proud Highway (1997) 96: I plan to find a place of my own and really grind out the copy.
at grind, v.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 31 Mar. in Proud Highway (1997) 113: Who are these hacks who spew out these articles, anyway?
at hack, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 1 Oct. Proud Highway (1997) 138: I got a hell of a kick out of reading the piece Time magazine did.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 18 Mar. in Proud Highway (1997) 110: He speaks for more than thieves, hopheads, and whores.
at hophead, n.1
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 7 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 143: One-horse gossip sheets and country weeklies.
at one-horse (adj.) under one, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 12 Nov. Proud Highway (1997) 140: I haven’t had a real ripping orgy in quite a while.
at ripping, adj.
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 23 Jan. in Proud Highway (1997) 102: I haven’t seen the one of those who turn into rumheads.
at rumhead (n.) under rum, n.2
[US] H.S. Thompson letter 17 Jan. in Proud Highway (1997) 101: A slacker’s credo for pleasure.
at slacker, n.
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