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[US] Rolling Stone Austin (TX) [headline] Had The Drop On Him.
at have the drop (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] Rolling Stone 28 June 4/1: Parsley can give a more powerful high on marijuana. The garden herb, says Olas Hendrickson, is the basic ingredient in a new psychedelic substance called ‘Angels’ [sic] Dust’.
at angel dust, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 28 June 19/3: Electric guitarist James Burton, replete in white turtleneck and matching ‘tennies’, puts together a lead.
at tennies, n.
[US] in Rolling Stone 20 May No. 216 n.p.: I did it once. It was ass-breaker. You work yourself to death.
at ass-breaker (n.) under ass, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 30: For a man who should not drink (he is diabetic), he is putting away plenty of booze.
at put away, v.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 35: Elton John seems to be coming out of last year’s much ballyhooed ‘retirement’.
at ballyhoo, v.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 26: Munching a hamburger (with bean sprouts) at a beanery.
at beanery, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 57: A quartet of authors responsible for a just-published scandal-bio called Elvis What Happened?
at bio, n.2
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 43: You were someone we told the story to, and you’re going up there and blasting into him like that.
at blast, v.1
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 14: He was really straight and just startin’ to come out and boogie.
at boogie, v.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 46: Until rock ’n’ roll (and Elvis) came along, ‘popular music’ was 100% White Bread America.
at white bread, adj.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 43: He knew, man, that we loved him, and he knew that we weren’t going to chop him up or anything.
at chop, v.2
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 15: ‘C’mon,’ she implores.
at come on!, excl.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 45: When Elvis came along thumping his guitar, it changed; now it was ‘cool’ to play the guitar.
at cool, adj.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 37: A couple of demos later, Sam Phillips [...] was looking for a singer to record a song he liked.
at demo, n.1
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 44: Tom Parker was working a foot-long hot-dog concession on a carnival runway.
at hot dog, n.1
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 30: Dressed [...] to the nines.
at dressed (up) to the nines, phr.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 57: The onstage freak-out brought on by dope and who knows what else.
at freak-out, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 46: There he was to be the Colonel’s ‘go-fer,’ to fetch him coffee on demand, to drive his car for him, to do whatever he asked.
at gofer, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 44: If anyone complained about being gypped [...] he’d just point to the piece of hot dog he’d dropped in the sawdust.
at gyp, v.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 42: He was also on some of the harder stuff.
at hard stuff, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 28: The hottest nightspot in Opelousas, Louisiana.
at hot, adj.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 13: You’re quite the kidder, huh?
at kidder, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 77: There is nothing here as witty as his first LP’s ‘P.S. Get Lost!,’ the ultimate kiss-off.
at kiss-off, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 73: [advert by A&W Publishers, Inc.] You’ll find 700 absolutely knock-out record jackets in this eye-popping new book!
at knockout, adj.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 13: In the limo [...] she turns to me.
at limo, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 6: Young’s article [...] has finally shown that escapee from a loony bin for what he really is: a first-rate jerk.
at loony bin (n.) under loony, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 28: Just head out Route 190 and look for a mess of cars on the left-hand side.
at mess, n.1
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 44: He also ran a ‘mitt camp’ for reading palms.
at mitt camp (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 11: The guards at the mansion were not exactly falling over with delight at seeing a well-oiled Jimmy Buffett entourage bearing down on them.
at oiled (up) (adj.) under oil, n.
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