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From the Journalism of Lawrence Schiller: Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! choose

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[US] A. Goldman Ladies and Gentlemen – Lenny Bruce! 196: Hipster talk [...] A man over forty, for example, was said to be ‘on the Jersey side of the snatch play’.
at snatch-play (n.) under snatch, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 13: You’ll never see Lenny with a spade broad – even though he’s so asshole tight with some black men .
at asshole tight (adj.) under asshole, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 9: Lenny is really a genius at putting away docs.
at put away, v.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 9: There was that one bad scene in [...] the Crescendo; but Lenny cooled that beef.
at cool the beef (v.) under beef, n.2
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 23: Moldy fig Dixielanders blow above the bar to an audience of [...] out-of-towners.
at moldy fig, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 4: He’s Lenny’s current sidekick, road manager, baby-sitter, amanuensis and ‘go-fer’ (‘Go for the the car now; go for my suit’).
at gofer, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 30: Gotta find out if this stuff is good or we’re just jerkin’ each other off.
at jerk off, v.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 15: He‘s got a half-dozen Kleenex suits: flimsy but elegantly fashionable Continental suits that sell for $49.99.
at Kleenex suit under kleenex, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 19: Lenny can get bread [...] from the worst Maf types.
at Maf, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 23: Is he crazy, this meshugana?
at meshuga, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 13: All spic broads, guinea broads, Jew broads [...] got that little mussy.
at muzzy, n.1
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 12: Lenny used to wake up so drugged that his friends would have to schlep him out of bed and walk him around the room for an hour.
at schlep, v.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 15: He‘s got a half-dozen [...] flimsy but elegantly fashionable Continental suits that sell for $49.99 in the Sixth Avenue schlock shops.
at schlock, adj.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 20: One day this schlocky show-biz attorney is sitting in his office.
at schlocky, adj.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 18: A straight Mafia-type joint [...] Real shtarkas, dig!
at schtarka, n.
[US] (ref. to 1958) A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 214: Lenny [...] was playing into the image of the sick comic [...] the sick comics were the big pop-culture phenomenon of the fall of 1958.
at sick, adj.1
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 14: Lenny starts to spritz [...] riding along the hops and beats of his Broadway-Brooklyntachycardic speech.
at spritz, v.
[US] A. Goldman Ladies and Gentlemen–Lenny Bruce! 41: They digs his looks [...] Dying to hear him spritz.
at spritz, v.
[US] in A. Goldman Ladies and Gentlemen–Lenny Bruce! 177: He spritzed me about my ‘pimp mentality’.
at spritz, v.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 13: A whole layer of bright girlie magazines. ‘Stroke books,’ he calls them.
at stroke book (n.) under stroke, v.1
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 123: Arty dance acts [...] got to be too goddamned much for the strokers in the third row with the newspapers over their joints.
at stroker, n.
[US] A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 20: If you could follow me around in hotels – even fuckin’ toilets like this – I’m always writing notes.
at toilet, n.
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