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[US] H. Ellison ‘Nedra at f:5.6’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] I’ve made my living at cheesecake [...] from every crotch-crazy angle you can think of.
at cheesecake, n.
[US] ‘Cordwainer Bird’ Bohemia of Arthur Archer’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] [to a man] We just want you, doll-face.
at dollface, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Nedra at f:5.6’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] None of that chubby housewife trying to hold onto her fat-assed hubby by learning [...] ‘imaginative sex’ fantasies bullshit.
at hubby, n.
[US] ‘Cordwainer Bird’ Bohemia of Arthur Archer’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] Sock it to her Artie! Dance, Artie! Go, go, go, go!
at sock it to, v.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Nedra at f:5.6’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] What ‘family-programmed’ television and sexploitation films have conned her into believing is a turn-on.
at turn-on, n.
[US] ‘Jay Solo’ ‘A Girl Named Poison’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] [of a woman] Running around the streets like a tramp, balling with every rumdum and jerk.
at ball, v.3
[US] ‘Jay Solo’ ‘A Girl Named Poison’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] Harry took ten quick steps to him and bolo-punched him full in the stomach.
at bolo, n.
[US] ‘Jay Solo’ ‘A Girl Named Poison’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] The one downstairs is gone; and if they [i.e. the police] don’t hurry, Andy’ll book, too.
at book, v.2
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Back in 1959 [this book] was lumped with ‘pornography.’ [...] Ten years later it was just silly pseudo- and updated Victorian blue.
at blue, n.2
[US] (con. late 1930s) H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Sharing gypsy coffee with [...] hobos, and we called each other brother—or just ’bo.
at bo, n.1
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] I’d manage to jump aboard an empty boxcar [...] they were called clankers.
at clanker, n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] ‘Pulling a train’ [...] came from a period when men treated women like ‘broads’ or ‘gashes’. I’vew heard hobos and cons and street thugs in packs used it since the 1940s.
at con, n.1
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Doctors are lucky. Their fuckups get buried under headstones.
at fuck-up, n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] ‘Pulling a train’ [...] came from a period when men treated women like ‘broads’ or ‘gashes’. I’vew heard hobos and cons and street thugs in packs used it since the 1940s.
at gash, n.1
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Sleeping under railroad trestles, shating gypsy coffee out of a tin can with ‘gentlemen of the road’.
at gentleman of the road (n.) under gentleman of..., n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Sharing gypsy coffee with [...] hobos, and we called each other brother—or just ’bo.
at hobo, n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] One-handed reading material, intended to keep truck drivers entertained in roadside toilets [...] Today, they’d be laughed out of the room [...] But at the time, oh, they were hot.
at hot, adj.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] I was working as an editor for [...] the #2 slick men’s mag in the game at that point.
at mag, n.4
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] My twisted reason for putting such a bad-taste politically-putrescent moniker on a modern paperback.
at monniker, n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] One-handed reading material, intended to keep truck drivers entertained in roadside toilets.
at one-hand magazine (n.) under one, adj.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] [of softcore pornography] The first of these (now referred to as) ‘sleaze’ (or, sometimes, ‘zilch’) paperbacks were from imprimaturs such as Beacon Books, Bedside Books [etc].
at sleaze, n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] I was working as an editor for [...] the #2 slick men’s mag in the game at that point.
at slick, n.1
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] One-handed reading material, intended to keep truck drivers entertained in roadside toilets. In the trade we called them ‘stiffeners’.
at stiffener, n.2
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Schoolkids still read those little Tijuana Bibles, the eight page mini-comics featuring Joe palooka with a dick the size of a schooner’s mast.
at Tijuana bible (n.) under Tijuana, adj.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] ‘Pulling a train’ [...] came from a period when men treated women like ‘broads’ or ‘gashes’. I’vew heard hobos and cons and street thugs in packs used it since the 1940s.
at pull a train (v.) under train, n.1
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] Just at the end of the Great Depression [...] there were thousands of younkers like me: on the road.
at younker, n.
[US] H. Ellison Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] But then, what the hell do I know; I’m the yotz who wroite all of it.
at yutz, n.
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