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works
noun
the equipment used to prepare and inject drugs US, 1934- I cooked up a grain and got my works ready to take the shot. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 38, 1953
- He would have to have a fix soon. He could have that almost anywhere: there were works stashed[.] — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 12, 1960
- “You got your works, Joe?” I gave her the spike and dropper. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 243, 1960
- The others couldn’t get works. I had to steal my spike out of the hospital. — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 37, 1964
- Then James Fox came in and said that he had his works and that he wanted Johnny to straighten him. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 118, 1965
- When he awakes in the morning, he reaches instantly for his “works”–eyedropper, needle (“spike,” he calls it), and bottle top (“cooker”). — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 14, 1966
- He’s got the works, gives you sweet taste. — Velvet Underground I’m Waiting for the Man, 1967
- Here, go cop me three things off Cowboy–I’m goin’ on to the room and git my works ready. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 20, 1968
- Meanwhile one of the others had already found our works and the stash of junk[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 40, 1980
- The desk drawers, once filled with school supplies and attendance records, were now used to store community-shared sets of works[.] — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 229, 1992
- I sorted myself out with a dig [injection] then washed out my works[.] — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 18, 2000
▶ get on someone’s works
to annoy someone AUSTRALIA- “Well,” Hilda growled, “if ever a woman got on my works! Who does she think she is, anyway?” — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 106, 1956
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 39, 1977
▶ in the works
already in progress, due to happen CANADA, 1973- [A]n al-Qaida attack is in the works. — The Guardian, 7 September 2002
▶ the works- the complete treatment US, 1899
- And we had a raving great dinner of baked potatoes and porkchops and salad and hot buns and blueberry pie and the works. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 74, 1958
- “He gave Genevie the works!” — Jose Antonio Villarreal, Pocho, p. 88, 1959
- [F]antastic or course–about three inches thick, with vast assortments of lunchmeats, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mustard, hard-boiled eggs, the works. — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 142, 1961
- So I ducked into a barbershop and ordered the works, shave, shine, shampoo. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 398, 1961
- He ate breakfast. He visited a barber shop, indulged himself in “the works” and went back to his two-room suite. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 117, 1963
- The fuckin works, boy; half a bottle of vodders an a few pipes before I even dragged me arse out of the bed[.] — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 112, 2002
- crack cocaine US
- “I thought he wanted drugs, but he wanted sex,” Fulton said, explaining Elliott asked for “the works,” which is street slang for crack. — Great Bend Tribune (Kansas), 13 April 2006
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