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lush noun- alcohol UK, 1790
At one time deemed obsolete slang, but revived. - Those hunkies were lush crazy and could they drink. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 71, 1946
- I have seen junkies kick and hit the lush and wind up dead in a few years. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 125, 1953
- From the way I was holding up you would have sworn I was immune to the lush. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 202, 1954
- Got a a big bag of whatzit from Long Island, which helps tone-down lush. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 431, 11 August 1954
- With each week of work, bombed and sapped and charged and stoned with lush, with pot, with benny[.] — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 243, 1955
- No, I’m laying off the lush, all that wine you drink is rotgut, it burns your stomach out, it makes your brain dull. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 89, 1958
- “I can’t make lush at all baby,” the girl said. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 11, 1961
- They came into the camp lushed, but nasty lush: ethyl alcohol coming on like the sleeping bags weren’t there, you know? — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 63, 1966
- I had been getting high for four or five years and was convinced, with the zeal of a crusader, that marijuana was superior to lush[.] — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 4, 1968
- an alcoholic US, 1851
- Used to be a lush. Quit. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 249, 1949
- When I got back to Denver and he married Marilyn was when I got to be a real lush. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 126, 1952
- You don’t want to be a corny lush like these squares, Cart[.] — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 359, 1952
- Pat was a square, a lush. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 150, 1960
- Nobody can make that shot and you know it. Not even a lucky lush. — The Hustler, 1961
- There had been a third child and Big Tom was a confirmed lush now from Gina’s nagging. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 67, 1961
- Reckon you’re as much a lush with cokes, as some blokes is with hard liquor. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 123, 1967
- [T]he rulers of the land seemed all to be lushes. — Eldrige Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 4, 1968
- A couple of times while they poured alcohol into me as though I were a crazed lush I began to rave[.] — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 72, 1970
- I got no time for those chumps crying about how they never had no chance ‘cause their mammy was a whore or their daddy was a lush–who wants to hear that shit? — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 42, 1975
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