1989 P. Benchley Lush 91: Even think about stealing on me, I be all over you like drool on a baby.at all over, adj.2
1989 P. Benchley Lush 61: It’s got you [...] You gotta shake the fuckin’ monkey off your back and kill the sucker.at monkey on one’s back, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 45: ‘First one’s always a bear,’ Hector said. ‘Give it two or three, then it’ll grip you good.’.at bear, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 113: ‘You say it’s because we’re . . . we’re—’ ‘An Oreo cookie. You are a white, a card-carrying member of the master race and I am of the Negro persuasion.’.at Oreo (cookie), n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 110: By now she’d be one more Jane Doe rotting in a potter’s field somewhere.at Jane Doe, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 116: She smiled and stamped her foot and gave herself a highfive.at high five, n.1
1989 P. Benchley Lush 56: Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Fastest high I ever had in my life. Up the gee-gee, in the bloodstream . . . liftoff!at gee-gee, n.1
1989 P. Benchley Lush 116: Nowadays, guys did it to guys, girls did it to girls [...] deacons socked it to choir boys.at sock it to, v.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 45: Ever been in a joint before? [...] Gotta beat jail, though. Gotta be a cruise [...] And when you get out, just be careful where you go boozing.at joint, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 84: Heroin withdrawal. There’s good jones, when you just sort of feel like shit for a while, and bad jones, when you get the shakes and the shivers and the sweats and the pukes and cramps like you can’t believe.at jones, n.1
1989 P. Benchley Lush 45: He refused to say the word ‘alcoholic.’ Or ‘rummy.’ Or ‘lush.’ [...] ‘Juicer,’ he said.at juicer, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 36: You feel like a sack of wet turtle turds now, but believe me, when you get out of here, you’ll feel like the prince of fuckin’ peace.at sack of shit, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 38: ‘Don’t ‘baby’ me, scuzzball!’ She kicked the man in the stomach.at scuzzball (n.) under scuzz, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 39: This smokey pulls me over, and he does a double take when he sees this rabbit driving a BMW.at smoky, n.
1989 P. Benchley Lush 65: Help! [...] The guy’s flipped his wig.at flip one’s wig (v.) under wig, n.2