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[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Feb. 135/2: Buy a jimmy pipe [...] one that chums-up with your spirit right off the bat, natural like .
at right off the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 27 Sept. 63/3: Pinkie [in St. John’s, Newfoundland] is a cheap wine highly regarded by waterfront connoisseurs, a chaser for screech [OED].
at pinkie, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 15 Aug. 28/2: So I had a couple of smashes and marched in [OED].
at smash, n.1
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 4 Sept. 31: Other patients ‘in residence’ [...] totalled only nineteen—fourteen narcotic addicts, two marijuana smokers and two ‘pillheads’, including me.
at pillhead (n.) under pill, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 15 Oct. 64: I would rather trust the decisions of the elected rulers of 200 million Americans and 10 million Australians than the noisy utterances of irresponsible Vietniks.
at Vietnik, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) July 65: Textbooks remain the meat and potatoes of publishing in Canada.
at meat and potatoes, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Oct. 80: He was a hi-fi nut who made his own equipment, which he could have got from Philco for $200 cheaper, and he was into us for several hundred dollars.
at into, prep.2
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Oct. 80: He was a hi-fi nut who made his own equipment, which he could have got from Philco for $200 cheaper, and he was into us for several hundred dollars.
at nut, n.2
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Apr. 26: We can do every style of ad, depending on what fits the client. The only thing we don’t do is schlock.
at schlock, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Feb. 39: It’s an area that reads hippie weirdsville to the old folks.
at weirdsville, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Mar. 77: Bang! Zap! Pow! With flashing laser beams and cracking doomsday machines, the deadly-serious superheroes swarmed out.
at zap!, excl.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Sept. 11/2: Now they seem to believe that a buck earned is a buck to be socked away [OED].
at sock, v.2
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) July 25: Gradually I learned the swingers’ lingo: ‘TVs’ meant transvestites; ‘toys’ meant anything from vibrators to whips; [...] ‘uncut’ mean uncircumcised, and ‘well-end’ an abbreviation of ‘endowed.’.
at well-endowed, adj.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) Oct. 57: Canada can be trusted by nearly everyone. But — and this is the hooker — Canadian statesmen will only be effective if they speak softly.
at hooker, n.5
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) June 77: Inside the Toronto org, I saw one ceremony that might be construed as worship.
at org, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) July 58: It is soft-core pornography which represents the true degradation of sex.
at softcore (adj.) under soft, adj.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) July 25: Gradually I learned the swingers’ lingo: ‘TVs’ meant transvestites.
at t.v., n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) July 25: Gradually I learned the swingers’ lingo: ‘TVs’ meant transvestites; ‘toys’ meant anything from vibrators to whips.
at toys, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 28 June 52: But what’s the use of goosing up wages if the cities’ workers live in dreary, faceless prisons.
at goose, v.3
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 22 Mar. 58: The Canadian Medical Association has officially expressed ‘alarm’ about over-prescriptions of minor tranks, and their abuse by consumers.
at trank, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 31 Oct. 20: ‘Is this going to happen every day?’ was a repeated bleat from those deprived of their Monday soap fix.
at bleat, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 31 Oct. 20: ‘Is this going to happen every day?’ was a repeated bleat from those deprived of their Monday soap fix.
at fix, n.3
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 21 Feb. 29: One top mandarin is convinced that the Tories are keeping a ‘hit list’ of Liberal civil servants who would be dumped.
at hit list (n.) under hit, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 31 Oct. 20: ‘Is this going to happen every day?’ was a repeated bleat from those deprived of their Monday soap fix.
at soap opera, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 12 Dec. 58: It’s called sinsemilla. ‘That’s Spanish for without seed, see. The trick is to weed out all the male plants and leave just the females. They’re the ones with the high THC content.’.
at sensimillia, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 21 Aug. 22: Was there a ‘Dr Feelgood’ in the White House, dispensing chemical happiness to his co-workers?
at Dr Feelgood, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 27 Nov. 4: Crely and Negin recreate the glitz and glitter of Paris gone-by.
at glitz, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 9 Jan. 62: Of all the clichés about west coast living [...] the most offensive is that life out here is ‘laid-back’, as if even the most aspiring members of the artistic community are sitting around waiting for someone to peel them a grape while the real hustlers are back east getting things done.
at hustler, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 21 Aug. 22: Because ‘ludes,’ as the students call them, are so abused as a ‘fun’ drug, pharmacists are constantly on the watch for phoney prescriptions.
at lude, n.
[Can] Maclean’s (Toronto) 17 Apr. 74: It dawned on Rosen that her words were nothing more than ‘psychobabble’ hippie argot.
at psychobabble, n.
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