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[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 47: He was drunk as a lord then.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 114: I’m against the death penalty but I think it ought to be kept for those people who muck around with kids.
at muck about, v.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 83: I often wonder what they really feel about the arty-tarty crowd I have been knocking about with.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 83: I often wonder what they really feel about the arty-tarty crowd I have been knocking about with.
at arty-farty, adj.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 164: Illicit love is rarely hunted out by the officers; they act only when the participants are discovered ‘bang-to-rights’.
at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Batts, shoes.
at batt, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Hustle, on the beat.
at on the beat under beat, n.3
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 91: You can’t face the old life of £6 5s. 0d. a week and chipped plates in the bed-sitter.
at bed-sit, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 91: After being their ‘darling’ you become a nasty bit of work, ‘biting the hand that fed you’.
at nasty bit of work, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 53: Our special partners got on well together (our ‘bitches’ was the description). [Ibid.] 79: Most of them give it a trial and come back for more although they’ve not had any experience with ‘bitches’ (passive homosexuals).
at bitch, n.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 53: I always like to live with another bitch but it is difficult because when I bring a nice Homie home, she wants him too.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 53: This relationship between two ‘lovers’ is quite different, however, from the relationship between two similarly sex-orientated homosexuals who are not interested in each other (i.e. two ‘homies’ or two ‘bitches’).
at bitch, n.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 91: After being their ‘darling’ you become a nasty bit of work, ‘biting the hand that fed you’.
at bite the hand that feeds one (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Bod, body. Example: Bonar bod — beautiful body.
at bod, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Bonar, good, nice, beautiful, etc.
at bona, adj.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 112: When they found out about the boys playing girls and that we couldn’t bottle it up there was a horrible fuss.
at bottle up, v.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3 167: Cartso, penis.
at catso, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 82: He’s a stupid ignorant bully, alcoholic and woman-chaser to this day.
at chaser, n.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 76: When a bisexual youngster takes up with such a ‘chaser’, it is clear that he is often reluctant.
at chaser, n.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 49: I still come in here to meet old friends who want to chew the rag with me.
at chew the rag, v.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 61: I never make love to a man when I’m sober or when I am in the chips (when he is affluent).
at in the chips under chip, n.2
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Cod, vile.
at cod, adj.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 146: I tried to be respectable [...] so I married a girl. [...] My friends shunned me then for crossing the lines.
at cross the line(s) (v.) under cross, v.2
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 45: [I was] the official ‘nephew’. I got into trouble when I was over twenty and my sugar daddy picked himself up a fourteen-year-old boy.
at sugar daddy, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 74: Whenever I go home to the dead street my family has always lived in, I could scream.
at dead, adj.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Dish, attractive male.
at dish, n.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 86: I know that George is always dog-tired too.
at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 33: A silly fellow I had seen a few times and then dropped tried to ring me up at home.
at drop, v.1
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Ecaf, face.
at eek, n.
[UK] R. Hauser Homosexual Society 87: They are quite adult and completely removed in type from the mass of their featherbrained fellow homosexuals or bisexuals.
at feather-headed, adj.
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