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[US] Village Voice 17 Aug. 8: The psychedelic tent was overflowing the next afternoon, but the Image was irked. The air conditioning, they complained was off and the bathrooms were locked. They paused to tell the audience that ‘the Electric Circus sucks’.
at suck, v.1
[US] R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 47: blow-your-mind roulette A game played with barbiturate or stimulant pills. ‘A group of people turn out the lights and throw a large assortment of pills and capsules on the floor. They grope around and swallow the first pill they touch, then everyone waits to see if they got an uppie or downie, an innie or outie, or a carpet tack.’ Howard Smith, Village Voice (N.Y.) (1966).
at blow your mind roulette (n.) under blow one’s mind, v.
[US] R. Christgau in Village Voice (N.Y.) Feb. n.p.: The energy implied by coinages like ‘choogle’ and ‘ramble tamble’ has more to do with vigor than with potency, more to do with simple activity than with sexuality.
at choogle, v.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 July 23: I had a .22 in my bag because I was headed for the New Lots and them muh-fuhs are superbad.
at muhfuh, n.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 July 23: I had a .22 in my bag because I was headed for the New Lots and them muh-fuhs are superbad.
at superbad, adj.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 12 Feb. n.p.: ‘Death to Disco’ is written on SoHo walls and ‘Disco Sucks!’.
at suck, v.1
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 12 Feb. n.p.: The 60’s were a mind trip.
at trip, n.4
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 15 Jan. 1: Meyer Lansky, the mob’s financial wiz.
at whiz, n.3
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 2–8 Apr. 31: The heroes of these legends are the [...] B Boys, the Puerto Rican and black teenagers who invent and endlessly elaborate this exquisite, heady blend of dancing, acrobatics, and martial spectacle.
at B-boy, n.
[US] (ref. to 1978) Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 Apr. 31: Spy, he’s called the man with a thousand moves, [...] in ’78—he was breaking at Mom and Pop’s on Katona Avenue in the Bronx.
at breaking, n.3
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 June n.p.: The brands of heroin most actively hawked [...] on 3rd Street east of Avenue C were Red Tape and Yellow Tape and Buddha.
at buddha, n.
[US] in Village Voice (N.Y.) 27 July 🌐 Taana Gardner chirps encouragement to her street corner cowboy: ‘. . . Put on something nice / just in case ya die / You’ll leave a pretty corpse behind . . .’.
at corner cowboy (n.) under corner, n.2
[US] D. Shewey in Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 Feb. 42: But the fear of gay men is not to be discounted. My gaydar tells me that up to 30 per cent of the men at the Santa Fe and New York weekends are gay, bisexual, or undeclared.
at gaydar (n.) under gay, adj.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 June n.p.: Solicitous merchants selling glassine packets containing a ‘trip for your dollar that will make you holler.’.
at trip, n.4
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 29 Oct. n.p.: Now you will either get your behind over or you will get your behind out.
at behind, n.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 29 Oct. n.p.: They looked like the last thing they ever think about is kissing some white boody.
at booty, n.2
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 13 May n.p.: New York to the Arts: Drop Dead [R].
at drop dead!, excl.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 14 July 19: F.T.W. on the top [of the tattoo], M.O.D. on the bottom. He reads off, ‘Fuck The World, Method Of Destruction’ [HDAS].
at f.t.w.!, excl.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 69: Probably he meant ‘jimmy protector’...a condom [DARE].
at jimmy protector (n.) under jimmy, n.4
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 5–11 May 🌐 Last week, two cops from the Midtown South precinct were indicted on charges of receiving cash and free services in exchange for protecting a 39th Street ‘fast house.’.
at fast house (n.) under fast, adj.1
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 28 June–4 July n.p.: For some, the rampage in Central Park conjures images of bold encounters with so-called ‘booty bandits,’ homeboys who ogle, claw at, and jam their fingers into women’s genitals. The worst offenders are the ‘serial buttfuckaz,’ the ‘trife-livin’’ sexual predators who brush up against females, ‘rubbin’’ them with an erection.
at booty bandit, n.
[US] Village Voice 18 Jan. 29: Banjee boy categories have been a part of vogue balls since at least the early ’80s.
at banjee boy, n.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 2 May n.p.: My younger brother, K, was fiending for a turkey sandwich.
at fiend, v.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 15 Feb. n.p.: ‘Hey, look at the fresh meat!’.
at fresh meat, n.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 15 Feb. n.p.: ‘We’ve got a real live one over here,’ the officer announced.
at live one, n.
[US] James Ridgeway ‘Mondo Washington’, 28 Aug–3 Sep, Village Voice (N.Y.) 🌐 Amtrak’s two recent catastrophes [...] gave fresh fodder to critics who say it’s time to face facts and let the old railroad take the deep six.
at take the deep six (v.) under deep six, n.
[US] Tracking Shots in Village Voice (N.Y.) 20–26 Nov. 🌐 A gladhanding Arab entrepreneur (Maz Jobrani), a salty papa (a seriously whacked, spluttering John Witherspoon), and a pneumatic prison-yard queen (Terry Crews) outweigh the dead spots.
at prison-yard queen (n.) under prison, n.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 28 Mar. 🌐 Eddie, in response to Antonio’s questions regarding the discomfort of latex, convinces him to try on a pair of silly, practically painted-on pants that far exceed descriptions like banana hammock, booty-chokers, and grape smugglers.
at booty-chokers (n.) under booty, n.2
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 9–15 July 🌐 Auteur, deadpan provocateur, renowned boozician, last of the red-hot existential modernists.
at boozician, n.
[US] Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 Mar. 🌐 Chowhound.com, the cultish message board where obsessed food lovers trade tips, has been sold to CNET Network.
at chow hound (n.) under chow, n.1
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