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[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 151: I thought of all the arse-licking, the hype, the false politeness.
at arse-licking (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 278: You can sue us ... you can take your writ and shove it up your arse.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 135: He was a terrible bullshitter, but the more bullshit he expended the more effective he was.
at bullshitter, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 11: Lahiffe and I bunked out and went to the shop across the road for sweets.
at bunk out (v.) under bunk, v.1
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 258: The room was full of Hollywood fat cats and their wives.
at fat cat, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 110: He was a frail-looking character, thin and gaunt.
at character, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 214: We stayed in bed and breakfast places rather than chi-chi hotels.
at chichi, adj.
[Ire] (ref. to 1970s) B. Geldof Is That It? 125: ‘Cred’ was achieved by your rhetorical stance and no one had more credibility than the Clash.
at cred, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 26: We Dublin boys called the country pupils ‘culchies’, which they hated.
at culchie, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 281: ‘Can you make a gesture?’ But no dice.
at no dice, phr.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 70: There was a hot dog war on between rival operators.
at hot dog, n.1
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 37: You could get a ‘wear’, a kiss with an open mouth; a ‘feel’; a ‘dry ride’, a crunching of pubic bones, or a ‘ride’.
at dry ride (n.) under dry, adj.1
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 93: What an idjeet.
at eejit, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 55: Murray’s wasn’t a nest of dope fiends, however.
at fiend, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 37: I did. I fucking did. I fucking finger fucked her.
at finger fuck, v.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 123: I was seized with a sense of panic that we might be a two-hit flash in the pan.
at flash in the pan, n.
[Ire] (ref. to 1950s) B. Geldof Is That It? 124: Getting rich would give me what Humphrey Bogart called Fuck You money – the ability to do exactly what you liked.
at fuck-you money (n.) under fuck-you, adj.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 68: Gougers were cornerboys, gurriers, yobs, hooligans, streewise kids.
at gouger, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 213: When you have not seen someone for a long time and you ask them where they have been they might reply, ‘Oh, I’ve been in the long grass,’ meaning they’ve been around but not visible.
at in the long grass under grass, n.1
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 117: I felt I had finally done something to make my old man proud of me [...] I wasn’t a complete no-hope.
at no-hoper, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 213: To hype a record into the American charts cost about $150,000 with no guarantee of success.
at hype, v.1
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 70: If he jacked himself up in the house, I’d kick him out. Heroin horrified me.
at jack (up), v.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 205: Good sweet jumping Jaysus on the cross, I thought. ‘That’s brilliant.’.
at jumping Jesus!, excl.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 149: You know, petrol pump jockeys who are all actors, waitresses who are all actresses.
at jockey, n.2
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 135: You guys kill me.
at kill, v.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 258: Paul’s only allowed her admittance to the friends’, liggers’ and freeloaders’ enclosure.
at ligger, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 135: Jesus, if they found out, my balls would be on the line.
at put one’s ass on the line (v.) under on the line, phr.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 109: He chopped out five more lines and rolled a note.
at line, n.1
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 53: To everyone else I was always ‘acting the maggot’.
at act the maggot (v.) under maggot, n.
[Ire] B. Geldof Is That It? 67: He expected his assistants to do all the work, while he went off, nobbed the models and then took credit for the pictures.
at nob, v.
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