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Kill Your Darlings choose

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[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 219: Don’t mess me about now, Greg.
at mess about, v.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 253: Basically, he’s an all right sort of bloke.
at all right, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 253: Shit, man, you talk like he was some sort of joke baddie from an Agatha Christie film.
at baddie, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 65: You changed your style. No more baggies now. Certainly no more baseball caps turned the wrong way round.
at baggies, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 24: Jimi had never been to an orgy before. Be-ins, love-ins, sit-ins, lie-ins but never an actual orgy.
at be-in, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 57: Although, frankly, one has never exactly turned to Monsieur Amis for a belly-laugh.
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 195: Porn’s really big now as long as you dress it up as something a bit more respectable.
at big, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 290: No way would I blab his big secret around the place.
at blab, v.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 251: You’re a writer yeah yeah, blahdy-blah.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 88: I let them see the old two-hand bracelet.
at bracelets, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 100: It began to seem as if he were in possession of some kind of bug which tapped into my creative consciousness.
at bug, n.4
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 178: A mere handshake was too buttoned-up to be acceptable, a hug too aggressively heartfelt.
at buttoned up, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 218: Give me a buzz when you have a moment.
at give someone a buzz (v.) under buzz, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 221: What good would it do me to have some ambitious ten-per-center [...] ?
at ten-per-center, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 218: Cheers for now.
at cheers!, excl.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 158: A list of titles, including such clonkers as Terpischore of Life [...] was drawn up.
at clunker, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 86: I crashed out – power nap, you know.
at crash (out), v.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 87: An hour ago I was up to my oysters in posh crumpet.
at crumpet, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 234: Kids who peddle their arse down the Dilly.
at Dilly, the, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 288: Suddenly the DJ kills the sound.
at DJ, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 258: He didn’t do books, he said.
at do, v.1
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 192: These were dealers, drug dukes enacting their own little bloody border disputes.
at duke, n.4
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 286: Coke-brained film exec, scurfy critic, sneering resentful writer.
at exec, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 57: He lifted his hands in a faggoty two-fingered clawing motion.
at faggoty, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 193: I was the writer as man of action [...] a fast-track fictioneer.
at fast track, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 290: They fingered Jimmy Rose within hours.
at finger, v.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 41: Ned [...] who, after some horrific mid-life freak-out, now lived a tranquil, and probably tranquillized, life as a handyman.
at freak-out, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 288: Poor Dad. No wonder he was freaked.
at freak, v.3
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 81: Two-thirty at my gaffe. The Brobury. Ask for the Tower Suite.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Kill Your Darlings 283: A few of the Granta gang whose reputations were still in credit.
at gang, n.1
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