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[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 128: The Beaver Patrol – USC frat boys fresh from late keggers.
at beaver patrol, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 127: The store sold beaver books, fuck-suck books, hom books, novels, slides [etc.].
at beaver, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 126: I [...] tailed women from the Versailles. They walked to work. I bird-dogged them.
at bird dog, v.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 129: I stockpiled food, booze and inhalers [...] I holed up for two weeks at a clip.
at clip, n.1
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 128: Middle-aged closet queens with wedding rings and sheepish expressions. Devotees of Cock It to Me and For Those Who Think Hung.
at closet-queen (n.) under closet, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 116: The shit [i.e. amphetamines] jacked him up for long cram sessions.
at cram session (n.) under cram, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 116: He found some Dr Feelgoods and copped amphetamine scripts.
at Dr Feelgood, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 129: The Green Gables sucked. It was full of hypes and elderly rumdums.
at rum-dum, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 126: I rented a cheap flop in Hollywood.
at flop, n.5
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 127: Fuck-suck books. Beaver books. Glossy color pix.
at fuck book (n.) under fuck, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 133: A classy fuck flick: The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann.
at fuck flick (n.) under fuck, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 127: [In a pornographic bookshop] You paid to browse [...] Horndogs browsed all night.
at horndog, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 128: The underhung devotees of the Donkey Dan Dick Extender.
at hung, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 116: The shit [i.e. amphetamines] jacked him up for long cram sessions.
at jack up, v.3
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 116: The cloud was a motel/love shack. It housed the Sexcapades of 1966.
at love shack (n.) under love, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 125: My new PO [...] told me to avoid drugs and keep my snout clean.
at keep one’s nose clean (v.) under nose, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 121: They would point to my poor-ass origins and conclude that I coveted Hancock Park from an aggrieved perspective.
at poor-ass (adj.) under poor, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 125: Lloyd got me the pad. My aunt shot me the coin.
at shoot, v.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 124: I synced her face to Wallace’s prose and slammed the ham in the stacks.
at slam the ham (v.) under slam, v.1
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 115: I met my PO once a month and snow-jobbed him.
at snowjob, v.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 116: Women and girls scared me. [...] I torched for Fritz’s sister Heidi.
at torch (for) (v.) under torch, v.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 128: I zorched out on 50-cent drinks.
at zorched, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘Balls to the Wall’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 26: The Morales fan shrugged. The neutral tried to pay him. The Morales fan blew off the money.
at blow off, v.1
[US] J. Ellroy ‘I’ve Got the Goods’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 173: My dad was a Hollywood bottom-feeder. He used to work for Rita Hayworth.
at bottom feeder (n.) under bottom, n.3
[US] J. Ellroy ‘Grave Doubt’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 87: He don’t plan to get caught. He’ll burn if he does.
at burn, v.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘Balls to the Wall’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 11: The cholos had heart. The cholos fought dirty. The cholos fucked goats.
at cholo, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘Grave Doubt’ Destination: Morgue! (2004) 81: He queried a dope line. He hit positive. Lambert was dirty [...] Lambert was dealing.
at dirty, adj.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘Balls to the Wall’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 26: Heist. Dry hump. Fucking. Misappropriation.
at dry hump, n.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘Grave Doubt’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 81: The vic died from gunshot trauma. He ate one .22 slug.
at eat, v.
[US] J. Ellroy ‘I’ve Got the Goods’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 176: Their collective circulation fizzled. They flatlined into the ’60s.
at flatline, v.
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