Junky by William S. Burroughs

Author:William S. Burroughs
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

GLOSSARY

“Jive talk” is used more in connection with marijuana than with junk. In the past few years, however, the use of junk has spread into “hip,” or “jive talking” circles, and junk lingo has, to some extent, merged with “jive talk.” For example, “Are you anywhere?” can mean “Do you have any junk or weed on your person?” Jive talk always refers to more than one level of fact. “Are you anywhere?” can also refer to your psychic condition: “Are you holding psychically?”

Are you anywhere? Are you holding? Do you have any junk or weed on you?

Beat To take someone’s money. For example, addict A says he will buy junk for addict B but keeps the money instead. Addict A has “beat” addict B for the money.

Benny Benzedrine. It can also mean overcoat.

Bring down, Drag The opposite of high. Depressing.

Brown Stuff, or Mud Opium.

Burn Down To overdo or run into the ground. Certain restaurants are used so much by junkies as meeting-places that the restaurant gets known to the police. Then the restaurant is “burned down.”

Burning Down Habit, an Oil Burner Habit A heavy habit.

C, Coke, Charge, Charly Cocaine.

Caps Capsules of heroin.

Cat A man.

Chick A woman.

Chucks Excessive hunger, often for sweets. This comes on an addict when he has kicked his habit far enough so that he starts to eat. When an addict is cut off the junk, he can’t eat for several days. I have seen addicts who did not eat for a month. Then he gets the “chucks” and eats everything in sight.

Clean A user is clean if he does not have any junk on his person or premises in the event of a search by the law.

Cold Turkey To quit using suddenly and completely with no gradual reduction of the dose. Almost always involuntary.

Collar Strip of paper wrapped around a dropper to make a tight fit with a needle.

Come on The way someone acts, his general manner and way of approaching others.

Come up A lush waking up while he is being robbed.

Cook To dissolve junk in water heated in a spoon or other container.

Cop To pass a cap of junk to someone; to hold out a hand for a cap.

Copper Jitters Exaggerated fear of cops. When you have the Copper Jitters, everybody looks like a cop.

Croaker A doctor.

Dig To size up, to understand, to like, or enjoy.

Fey White.

Five-Twenty-Nine Five months and twenty-nine days. This is the term in the workhouse that a lush-worker receives for “jostling.” If a detective sees a lush-worker approach or touch a lush, he places a “jostling” charge.

Flop Drunk passed out on a subway station bench.

G One grain. Morphine is the standard for junk measurement. One-half grain of morphine is one “fix.” A capsule of heroin should contain at least the equivalent of ½ grain of morphine. Heroin is seven times as strong as morphine.

Gold Money.

H, Horse, Henry Heroin.

Habit A junk habit. It takes at least a month of daily use to get a needle habit, two months for a smoking habit, four months for an eating habit.

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