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[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 180: Bunny and I decided we were bad medicine for each other.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 48: Wallace [...] invited me to my first real drugs party - or a ‘ball’ as we called it.
at ball, n.3
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 116: The cats nearly blew their top and as soon as they could get otuside they rushed for the drug again.
at blow one’s top, v.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 90: Come on bones, roll me a seven.
at bones, n.1
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 47: ‘This viper’s looking for some loot, Wallace. Any ideas?’ [...] ‘The charge is busting me’.
at bust, v.1
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 162: A lot of hep cats wanting to get high in a cheap way.
at hep-cat, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 77: Fifteen quid for black market gear worth a couple of centuries!
at century, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 9: Good old charge - curse it. It’s kicked me and whipped me and brought me here/ Yet i can’t get away from it.
at charge, n.2
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 119: If you asked me instead I’d probably tell you to go chase.
at go chase yourself! (excl.) under chase, v.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 102: With the contacts we’ve got between us we ought to clean up a fortune.
at clean up, v.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 12: Soho [...] clip joints touted for by rat-faced little men in outsize overcoats.
at clip-joint, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 115: ‘What’s this cold turkey?’ ‘Oh, the cure they tried in the old days [...] it was pure hell.’.
at cold turkey, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 29: The cool cats [...] and the hot music.
at cool, adj.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 15: Real cool it was, man.
at cool, adj.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 68: First they rubbed me down - searched me from tip to toe.
at rub down, v.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 15: I had nothing aganst drugs [...] it would have been square to be antagonistic towards them [...] I should have been a ‘drag’.
at drag, n.1
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 31: The popularity of the new club soared to fantastic heights [...] it was a ‘smasheroo’.
at -eroo, sfx
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 154: Show a man some folding money and he’s just got to stop and think again.
at folding, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 47: Why not push some gear for the Yanks [...] Cigrattes, or nylons.
at gear, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 68: I knew I had no gear on me.
at gear, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 142: The spades [...] all grinned away like oversized golliwogs.
at golly, n.2
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 30: I was [...] ‘gone’ on he hot music [...] The clienetele was crazy, really gone.
at gone, adj.1
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 77: It’s [i.e. cocaine] the goods [...] have you got any more samples?
at goods, n.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 89: With charge short the cats’ll pay anything for hash.
at hash, n.2
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 172: He seriously believed that hemp had been sent by God as His own herb for mankind to use.
at herb, n.1
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 15: I had been told about the sensations of getting ‘high’ - coming under the influence of the drug.
at high, adj.1
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 124: I spotted some cats who might have been on the hook [...] human wrecks with blank stares.
at on the hook under hook, n.2
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 92: I disliked her the moment we met. But I obviously made it with her in a big way.
at make it (with) (v.) under make it, v.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 34: Frankie offered his own [cannabis] cigarette to me. ‘Why not make it man,’ he said dreamily.
at make it, v.
[UK] ‘Raymond Thorp’ Viper 78: Our clients were [...] not far enough gone to be registered [as addicts]. We called them ‘joy-poppers’.
at joy-popper, n.
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