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[US] H. Ellison ‘No Fourth Commandment’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 150: You [...] jazzed around at the fraternity house.
at jazz around (v.) under jazz, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 27: Hank walked into the little one-arm grocery.
at one-arm, adj.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Sally in Our Alley’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 117: Since when do the badges need help from impecunious poets?
at badge, n.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 129: I [...] tagged him one right on that monumental bazooz of his.
at bazooz, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 34: It was the same expression I’d seen in paintings of the big man, Christ.
at big boss, the, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 133: Trouble wore a sheath and had a pair of cans like the headlights on a fire engine.
at cans, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 82: You come out to the chickie-run tonight, and we’ll see you got enough guts to be a Prince.
at chickie run (n.) under chickie, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 129: Baby, you want a mouthful of bloody Chiclets, you keep peppering my good nature.
at chiclets, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 129: Watch yourself, Cootie [...] The next mark might tear your head off.
at cootie, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 27: He had started writing at five-thirty that morning, hoping to cork off a solid five thousand words that day.
at cork off (v.) under cork, v.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 78: The dough he’d had to lay out for that crack-up and the Dodge’s busted grille.
at crack-up, n.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 128: Get creamed once by a down chick and you’ve had it.
at get creamed (v.) under cream, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 78: Don’t play cute with me, Bruce.
at cute, adv.
[US] H. Ellison ‘This Is Jackie Spinning’ Gentleman Junkie (1961) 69: You’ve been pushing that Conlan dog [i.e. a record] for over a week now.
at dog, n.2
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 29: He was going to get dumped when Gogroth informed the boss young Spence was not thinking pro-Gogroth.
at dump, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 131: So I took the Tiger down to see Frankie Sullivan [...] and in a burst of frantic dynamiting, sold him on the kid.
at dynamite, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 78: Hey, man, you wanna fall down on some laughs?
at fall down (on) (v.) under fall, v.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 34: The kid wasn’t any finger-poppin’ Daddy, either. He knew his music.
at finger-popping daddy (n.) under finger-popping, adj.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 137: He and I had quite a few gab sessions about [...] the old days.
at gabfest (n.) under gab, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 130: He had talent; not the kind of gaff the village phonies put out, but the real thing.
at gaff, n.2
[US] H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 133: I glommed her immediatest because she had green eyes.
at glom, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 34: I knew they were all pretty high on the kid.
at high on under high, adj.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 31: I can’t marry anyone right now. Not Princess Grace if I’d knocked her.
at knock up, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Sally in Our Alley’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 123: The weirdest part of all [...] was the cuckaboo with the hood.
at kookaboo, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Sally in Our Alley’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 119: I felt like a minor-league Herbert Philbrick, spying on all my friends.
at minor-league, adj.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Sally in Our Alley’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 119: Priscilla and Teddy, the lesbos on the second floor.
at lesbo, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘This Is Jackie Spinning’ Gentleman Junkie (1961) 72: Penny-ante chisellers who take nicks out of my till.
at nick, n.4
[US] H. Ellison ‘May We Also Speak’ Gentleman Junkie (1961) 33: He made a small wave in the general direction of nowheresville.
at nowhere city (n.) under nowhere, adj.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Sally in Our Alley’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 122: Aggie [...] has one small character flaw: she’s a nympho.
at nympho, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 78: This wasn’t some stud punkie from uptown.
at punk, n.1
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