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[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 136: An Egyptian ad man on the skids from the sauce.
at ad, adj.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 181: What am I, an octopus already?
at already, adv.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 105: It’s the old Army Game, son. Pea under the shell ... now you see it now you don’t.
at army game (n.) under army, n.2
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 102: Up your ass, you liquefying gook.
at up your arse!, excl.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 16: Some bush league short con artist.
at -artist, sfx
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 123: Sure as shit some horrible old character get physical. [Ibid.] 198: Sure as shit and taxes, he comes there every night.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 101: Queen Bees are old women who surround themselves with fairies to form a ‘swarm’.
at queen bee, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 161: Clip clap joint where fraudulent girls put the B on you.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 176: Let him take his purple-assed bastard and big time spend some place else.
at big-time, adv.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 37: Walked past the cocktail lounge where they blasted the Jai Lai bookie.
at blast, v.1
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 30: I blasted my last stick of Tangier tea.
at blast, v.1
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 31: Well, this rumble in the operating room [...] was the blow off.
at blow off, n.2
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 109: That international-known impressario of blue movies and short-wave TV.
at blue, adj.3
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 151: In the box he meets this cat who is some species of cheap hustler.
at box, n.1
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 112: He was torn in two by a bull-dike.
at bull-dyke, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 279: I once gave marijuana to a guest who was mildly anxious about something (‘On bum kicks’ as he put it).
at bum kicks, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 147: The bum boys fall back in utter confusion.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 21: The Bunko people are really carrying a needle for the Rube.
at bunco squad (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 43: By adroit vein rotation a junky can piece out the odds if he don’t become an oil burner.
at oil-burner, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 30: Bought a Ford turned out to be an oil burner.
at oil-burner, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 16: Some bush league short con artist.
at bush league, adj.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 162: The criminal manqué nerves himself to crack a pay toilet [...] ‘A caper,’ he says, ‘I’ll pull this capon I mean caper.’.
at caper, n.2
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 218: With gambler fingers he shifts the photos in Three Card Monte Passes.
at three-card monte, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 22: I [...] make a meet to sell him some ‘pod’ as he calls it, thinking ‘I’ll catnip the jerk’.
at catnip, v.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 208: It’s all very well for you chaps.
at chap, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 216: Let your hair down, chicken. You’ll feel better.
at chicken, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 24: Old Pete men suck the black smoke in the Chink laundry back room.
at Chink, adj.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 147: I’m fucking this citizen.
at citizen, n.
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 178: Bank notes run as high as one million clams a note.
at clam, n.2
[US] W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 36: One morning you wake up and take a speed ball and feel black bugs under your skin. 1890 cops with black moustaches block the doors [...] Junkies march through the room singing the Moslem Funeral Song [...] It’s the coke horrors.
at coke horrors (n.) under coke, n.1
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