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[US] H. Ellison Would You Do It for a Penny? in Shatterday (1982) 89: Arlo scrunched closer, tried for a kiss.
at scrunch, v.
[US] H. Ellison Would You Do It for a Penny? in Shatterday (1982) 79: A stalking ground without prey. A shandah. A pure pain in the ass. He wasted half an hour buying a can of Pledge [...] But as ye cruise, so shall ye be cruised: he was accosted briefly and toothily by an aging homosexual.
at shandah, n.
[US] H. Ellison Shatterday (1982) 307: Chew on that one, you creep.
at chew on this! (excl.) under chew, v.
[US] H. Ellison Shatterday (1982) 301: You know something, Novins [...] you’re really full of horse puckey.
at puckey, n.
[US] H. Ellison Flop Sweat in Shatterday (1982) 63: A certifiable nut-case, a card-carrying whacko.
at card-carrying, adj.
[US] H. Ellison Flop Sweat in Shatterday (1982) 71: We know there are enough cuckoos out there who like to confess to crimes.
at cuckoo, n.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘Jeffty Is Five’ in Shatterday (1982) 41: ‘Super duper,’ he said.
at super-duper, adj.
[US] H. Ellison Flop Sweat in Shatterday (1982) 67: This flake does a good enough job scaring the hell out of me on his own.
at flake, n.2
[US] H. Ellison Flop Sweat in Shatterday (1982) 63: A certifiable nut-case, a card-carrying whacko.
at whacko, n.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 155: Break a leg, Jimmy.
at break a leg!, excl.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 186: You can keep that ski bum of yours on a string a little longer.
at bum, n.3
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 177: Okay, take it easy. I’m just clowning.
at clown (around) (v.) under clown, v.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 183: The Chevy caught up [...] The culeros rear-ended him.
at rear end, v.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 187: Not a farthing. Not grubnik.
at -nik, sfx
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 177: I couldn’t possibly write the crap I write if I was ripped.
at ripped, adj.1
[US] H. Ellison Mortal Dreads in Shatterday (1982) 20: This apartment full of stone-righteous street hypes.
at stone, adv.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 165: All set. Do your stuff, Kerch.
at do one’s stuff (v.) under stuff, n.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 175: There would be Eusona, dusting Jimmy’s vast, endless hoard of tchotchkes.
at tchotchke, n.
[US] H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 139: Among the batches of fanzines I traded for Visitations by mail, I’d received an ineptly hektographed crudzine called Uranium-236.
at -zine, sfx
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