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The Life and Times of Little Richard choose

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[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 170: They use all types of narcotics. They go from marijuana to angel dust.
at angel dust, n.
[US] (con. 1968) C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 142: If you don’t like what I’m doing you can kiss my ass! The door swings both ways!
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 48: Richard so angered Robey with his backtalk that the record boss lost his temper.
at back-talk, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 22: One lady put the bad-mouth on me – like putting on a curse – that I would die at twenty-one.
at badmouth, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 190: After reducing them to a frenzy with his mind-crunching Rock’n’Roll?
at mind-bending, adj.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 114: Everybody was telling us that we were going to make it big.
at big, adv.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 22: All the kids would call me Big Head.
at big head, n.1
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 63: I first met Richard when he was blowing saxophone in the Hudson High School band in 1947.
at blow, v.1
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 137: He thought for a minute that we’d bombed, but when they realized what was happening they just went wild.
at bomb, v.2
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 32: Daddy used to hide the jugs of bootleg whisky.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 50: The lyrics were kind of vulgar, ‘Tutti Frutti good booty – if it don’t fit don’t force it ...’.
at booty, n.2
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 64: He and his band had put on a great performance and brought the house down.
at bring the house down (v.) under bring, v.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 56: Richard kept bugging us on the phone, ‘Are you going to record me?’.
at bug, v.2
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard (1985) 129: I didn’t accept that kind of bullshit.
at bullshit, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 128: Little Richard’s journeyings around America had an expectant buzz about them. Every performance was wild and outrageous.
at buzz, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 123: Richard went on the road again with [...] an outrageously camp image.
at camp, adj.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 84: Columbia Pictures rushed out a follow-up, cashing in on teenagers’ desperate hunger to see their heroes perform.
at cash in, v.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard (1985) 56: When I walked in, there’s this cat in this loud shirt, with hair waxed up six inches above his head.
at cat, n.5
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 59: The chick comes in and puts these trite lyrics in front of me.
at chick, n.1
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 133: He was cheerful and he had class. He was with it.
at class, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 195: All of you secret servers and closet folk.
at closet, adj.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 159: Facing the dark side of the come-downs.
at come-down, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 22: Many of the boys would have crushes on other boys as friends, but mine was the whole thing.
at crush, n.2
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 48: He was always chewing this big cigar, cussin’ at me round the end of it.
at cuss, v.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 50: We were making a darned good living.
at darned, adv.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 149: All the hookers, hustlers, and dealers hung around there.
at dealer, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 121: The main title on the demos, ‘Bama Lama Bama Loo’ recaptured the excitement of Richard’s old hits.
at demo, n.1
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 80: I first heard a D.J. using that name.
at DJ, n.
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 152: She got back down with me.
at get down, v.3
[US] C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 124: Jimi just idolizes Richard. He would eat ten yards of shit to join his band.
at eat shit, v.
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