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[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 158: The right moment went and still they fannied about.
at fanny about, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 152: Charlie Watts worked in an ad agency.
at ad, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 127: Hairstyles turned Afro.
at afro, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 58: He looked like another sub-Elvis, smooth flesh and duck-ass hair.
at duck’s arse, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 224: When they turn profound, they’re a pain in the arse.
at pain in the arse, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 88: Because it’s what’s happening, babydoll.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (2001) 21: He looked like a man on a bad trip.
at bad trip (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 206: They so deballsed it as to make it almost meaningless.
at de-ball (v.) under balls, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 63: He [...] ballyhooed him with more energy, more imagination than anyone was used to.
at ballyhoo, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 91: Everything was impetus. Murray the K, wham bam thankyou mam.
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 161: The royalties went on beanfeasts.
at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 193: Tom Jones was true beefcake.
at beefcake (n.) under beef, n.1
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 224: They’re the only true belly laughs in the whole of contemporary rock and, as such, are to be treasured.
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 80: He just stomped his foot, stood his ground and belted.
at belt it out (v.) under belt, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 238: An epic three-hour freak-out every Saturday night, a veritable mind-snapper.
at mind-bender, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 64: He wasn’t much of a singer and often got the bird.
at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 70: He [...] refused to bitch back when they were rude about him.
at bitch, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 191: She gave interviews saying that blue films should be legal.
at blue, adj.3
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 84: She wore the same bobbysoxer uniform as ever.
at bobby soxer, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 99: At weekends, they bombed up and down the coastline in their hotrods.
at bomb, v.1
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 154: Charlie Watts played the all-time bombhead drummer, mouth open and jaw sagging, moronic beyond belief.
at bombhead, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 15: It was straight about sex [...] it was downright filthy – Hank Ballard’s Work With me Annie, Billy Ward’s Sixty Minute Man and the Penguins’ Baby Let me Bang Your Box were typical.
at box, n.1
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 216: The way to break the bubblegum market is simply to shout, to be louder and flasher and more vulgar than the competition.
at bubblegum, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 80: He’s always liable to launch himself into sudden spasms of bug-eyed operatics.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 141: The Beatles promptly found themselves besieged by massed no-talents and maniacs and charlatans, bummers of all descriptions.
at bummer, n.3
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 52: We also fall in love and that really burns us up.
at burn up, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 102: By the time that any fad burned out, the Beach Boys were inevitably long long gone.
at burn out, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 159: At the time of his bust-up with the Stones, he went through some quite bad times.
at bust-up, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 59: He gets back home, four in the morning, bushed and busted.
at busted, adj.1
[UK] N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 118: It’s a cry of pure pain and sometimes it’s only a sigh. Either way, it would like to break your heart. So high and soft and busted.
at busted, adj.1
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