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[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 80: On a cool night you could build a fire and hold all-night acid vigils.
at acid, n.1
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 63: That’s the art of street hang. Telling stories, throwing the bull, smackin’ your gums.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 201: For years, the fanzines were filled with bitch-and-moan manifestos about the dreaded alloy invasion.
at bitch and moan (v.) under bitch, v.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 93: Cops are dicks, school blows, the jocks suck.
at blow, v.2
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 225: Chain smoke ’boros and soak up the life force, music.
at ’Boro, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 220: All night long there are comments about ‘Buckwheat’ and blackness.
at buckwheat, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 3: ‘Dropouts,’ ‘druggies,’ the papers called them [...] My friends, most of whom were born in the 1950s, felt the same way about the kids everyone called ‘burnouts’. [Ibid.] 59: Cop watching, skateboards, and car races are the burnouts’ idea of sports.
at burnout, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 65: The color TV is on [...] This is really burnt, somebody tells him, it’s such a gorgeous day outside.
at burnt, adj.2
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 118: Mainly here for ‘business’ (drugs).
at business, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 228: Ruthie is in panic city.
at -city, sfx
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 182: To field hippies and speed freaks, Led Zeppelin was declassé, low-rent, sleazy cock-rock.
at cock rock (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 104: We [...] went ‘copping’ (shoplifting).
at copping, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 196: It was vulgar, spandex rock, white, male, mass, suburban corp-rock.
at corp, adj.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 189: I spent several months cranked on ‘crystal meth’.
at crank, v.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 226: Master of the Puppets is cranking and they are literally bouncing off the walls [...] It’s a mosh against whatever is left standing after last week’s bash.
at crank out (v.) under crank, v.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 68: His clothes are getting crusty, and he points to his armpits and says he smells.
at crusty, adj.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 189: I spent several months cranked on ‘crystal meth’.
at crystal meth (n.) under crystal, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 220: Heather is in the ‘death seat’ place of honor.
at death seat (n.) under death, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 93: Cops are dicks.
at dick, n.1
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 99: While dirts (dirtbags, dirtballs, dirt merchants, dirtbombs) dress like they just walked out of 1968 — ‘freaks’ — they are wholly ‘today’s kids’ and full of contradictions.
at dirt, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 99: While dirts (dirtbags, dirtballs, dirt merchants, dirtbombs) dress like they just walked out of 1968 — ‘freaks’ — they are wholly ‘today’s kids’.
at dirtball, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 109: Snoopy smoking a doobie!
at doobie, n.1
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 71: Joe was very intense, a real drama queen.
at drama queen, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 93: Burnouts, were actually a conglomerate of several cliques — serious druggies, Deadheads, dirtbags, skinheads, metalheads, thrashers, and punks.
at druggy, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 208: It gives them an edge, attitude, and courage.
at edge, n.1
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 67: Joe grabs my arm and draws a tattoo: an iron cross with a snake [...] ‘F.T.W.’ on the top.
at f.t.w.!, excl.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 79: By 9:20, ‘Hawaii 5-0’ will arrive and with them threat of parking tickets, beer tickets, and formal charges.
at five-oh, n.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 68: Joe’s been up for more than a day already. He’s fried.
at fried, adj.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 227: Joe is decent, he would never fuck them over.
at fuck over, v.
[US] D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 112: Sometimes, when things get hairy, they grasp at particular elements of their religions of origin.
at hairy, adj.2
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