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[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 74: He eventually remembered to pick me up in his banger from the train station.
at banger, n.3
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 191: Caplan was eyeing the tiny folded rectangle that I had placed on the table. ‘Is that my Bolivian marching powder?’.
at Bolivian marching powder, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 199: Tell her I’m the fall guy. I’ve had a bum rap.
at bum rap, n.
[UK] (con. 1970s) Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 161: The nibble I’d taken of the Clear Light tab was starting to hit me, and the pavement was turning into sponge beneath my feet.
at clear light (n.) under clear, adj.1
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 91: When I discovered the next train wasn’t for another hour and that Crim had some Congolese Bush I agreed to go to Regent’s Park for a smoke on the way.
at Congo, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 86: The thought of Candida trying to get inside the fly buttons of some done-in guitarist made me smile.
at done in, adj.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 172: With half-a-gram of Peruvian flake in my pocket and fraught with nervous energy I made my way to Maddie’s terraced house.
at flake, n.1
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 112: Instead of having a flash-back, I was having a flash-forward.
at flashback, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 145: They said he was doomed, flipped-out, and I knew he was because I’d been there when it had happened.
at flipped-out, adj.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 144: Later I had a look round the gynie ward. [...] The beds were full of straight women with Alma Cogan hairdos, quilted dressing gowns and mules. They smoked cigarettes and gossiped about their tubes and ovaries.
at gynae, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 121: Her untutored mind had given way under the onslaught of Seymour’s galactic acid. She was in the grip of the horrors, screaming and tearing at the bedclothes.
at horrors, the, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 76: ‘Here,’ she said, and handed me a Smartie tube. I peeked inside, there were a couple of mandies and other goodies at the bottom.
at mandy, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 42: Gisela can’t show her face. They’ve got her card marked for junk back in the Fatherland.
at mark someone’s card (v.) under mark, v.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 144: He [...] thought dipping a matchstick in a pile of hallucinogenic crystal very unscientific. He had been using carefully measured doses of 100mics per patient, I told him we were taking ten times that amount.
at mic, n.2
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 171: We usually made it to daylight before Theo was reduced to talking gibberish and I would feel strung out enough to snap.
at strung out, adj.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 160: I was gone before he got back from work, and I left him a grateful note and a piece of Black Pak.
at black Pak (n.) under Pak, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 43: Theo had been told that if the fuzz came again and found nothing, they’d plant us anyway.
at plant, v.1
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 31: ‘Last time I asked you to suck me off you said you wouldn’t because you didn’t like that expression. And after you wrote the book, you wouldn’t accept blow-job.’ ‘It became plating,’ I explained. ‘But Jay says that’s something only welders do, so it’s blow-jobs again.’.
at plating, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 73: ‘You can’t just sit here being available for Doc,’ I told her. ‘Isn’t there anyone else you fancy a scene with?’.
at scene, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 51: Our readers don’t want to know about the antics of nib-scratching shirt-lifters.
at shirtlifter (n.) under shirt, n.
[UK] (con. 1970s) Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 91: Crim rolled up briskly, took a drag and passed me a lethal one-skinner.
at skinner (n.) under skin, n.1
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 171: I never found Billy in my bed again, and when he did stop by for a snort or a smoke I kept my eyes averted and pretended to be busy at the typewriter.
at snort, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 172: I got out my coke, and Maddie and I tooted up.
at toot, v.3
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 73: She seemed determined to do all the uncool things in her uncool situation.
at uncool, adj.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 101: When he tried to tweak her walnut whips she slapped him away, laughing, and told him not to spoil things.
at walnut whip, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 71: I brought back a weight. I saw it being collected. I watched the tribesmen run through fields of pollen wearing leather aprons and just scrape it off and press it into blocks. It was such a high.
at weight, n.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 42: I stared back at him, trying to zap him with my vibes.
at zap, v.
[UK] Fabian & Byrne Out of Time (ms.) 42: Behind the desk this whey-faced fuzz was staring at me as though I was the dregs of society. We were probably the same age but a zillion years apart.
at zillion, n.
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