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[US] J. Cohen Essential Lenny Bruce 285: We must have some laws to restrict the behavior – to cool the people out.
at cool out, v.2
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce Nov. [stage performance] Because when your daughters, if their husbands get shot, and they haul ass to save their asses, they’ll feel shitty, and low, because they’re not like that good Mrs. Kennedy who stayed there.
at feel shitty (v.) under shitty, adj.1
[US] L. Bruce in Essential Lenny Bruce (1967) 237: Swank and Gent and Pageant [...] and millions of other stroke books.
at stroke book (n.) under stroke, v.1
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 138: You’ll get broads, you won’t be able to stand up already.
at already, adv.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 237: Tits and ass, that’s what the attraction is.
at tits and ass, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 131: This guy writes a bread-and-butter column [...] he’s afraid to knock cause they’ll lose the ads.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 45: Our god has no mother, no father, no manger in the five and ten.
at five and dime, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 72: I’m not goin ta kiss your ass all day.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 60: Come on, haul ass.
at haul ass, v.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 61: I’m up to my ass in crutches and wheelchairs.
at up to one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 278: At that time the Anglican Church were really ballbreakers.
at ball-breaker, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 66: stevenson! that bawlbustuh!
at ball-buster, n.
[US] L. Bruce in Cohen Essential Lenny Bruce 143: What’s behind Welk? A woman—firm, with fantastic measurements: 96, 4, 53; 112 pounds; two feet tall. Grotesque? But a balling chick.
at balling, adj.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 202: I couldn’t wear a balloon.
at balloon, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 278: They didn’t really break your balls, but they hurt them.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 175: Get off my back, you vitch you! You band rat!
at band rat (n.) under band, n.2
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 28: Give me some full music — anything, barrelhouse.
at barrelhouse, adj.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 214: Tight Levis with a padded basket.
at basket, n.1
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 40: Two thousand years of Polack kids whacking the shit out of us.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 64: Maybe ah am a dumbbell, maybe that’s it.
at dumb-bell, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 280: The Supreme Court’s the Big Daddy.
at big daddy, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 55: They have this bitch with the Communists.
at bitch, n.1
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 247: This I never heard, blah-blah-blah. He said blah-blah-blah?
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 169: I was just a blob, a vegetating part of a vegetating mass.
at blob, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 139: A ’36 Terraplane. They’re bombs. Good roadability.
at bomb, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 16: One [...] thick, funcky, spunky boogey.
at boogie, n.2
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 32: Nor would they send their children to tap-dancing school to entertain Boss Charley.
at Boss Charlie (n.) under boss, n.2
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 99: He’s bottled out, get him.
at bottled, adj.2
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 100: This ol buck nigger and this Jewboy.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 168: I’m really getting to be a bringdown.
at bringdown, n.
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