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  • In my professional guise as flackmeister, I used my skills and contacts to get her press, from features on her work to her own boldface name mentions in in the tabs, a "dab of the ol' 15 minutes" at the droogies would say.

    Sal Cataldi: The Holiday Breakup: A Perfect Diet?

  • In my professional guise as flackmeister, I used my skills and contacts to get her press, from features on her work to her own boldface name mentions in in the tabs, a "dab of the ol' 15 minutes" at the droogies would say.

    Sal Cataldi: The Holiday Breakup: A Perfect Diet?

  • "Cutter on the table, droogies, " said Bully, pulling out his own rattling and chinking mound of deng.

    Where's the show?

  • All the time below my droogies were hard breathing.

    Where's the show?

  • So when word came of an Israeli strike on a farm warehouse in northeastern Lebanon that killed over thirty Syrian Kurds who were loading fruits and vegetables on to trucks, I wondered how long it would take for the Pajamas Media droogies to starting hanging ironic quotation marks about the Lebanese "farm" and its "workers."

    Dry Eyes, Girded Loins: James Wolcott

  • Then my droogies, let's keep the torture out of the headlines and back in Italian splatter movies and horror comics where it belongs - OK?

    Archive 2009-05-01

  • Then my droogies, let's keep the torture out of the headlines and back in Italian splatter movies and horror comics where it belongs - OK?

    Fass times 5!

  • In the last week or so there's been a rash of news items -- punks and rashes seem to go together -- about Republican candidates and their droogies trying to do the blitzkreig bop on wives, gal pals, and political foes alike.

    Spit Tricks: James Wolcott

  • However, out of the context of Clockwork Orange, “on my oddy knocky”, “droogies”, and all the other linguistic constructs that made the novel so surreal just sound retarded.

    Russell Brand Gets To Be In New Morrissey Video

  • Oh, his withdrawal convulsions are better than infinite monkeys at infinite keyboards watching the infinite celevrity gossip shows, o my droogies……..

    Grand Theft Auto IV Offends New York Types

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  • One can infer droogy(-ies) to be DFW's adapted form of, and a nod to, Anthony Burgess' Droogs from A Clockwork Orange. Within the context of Infinite Jest, droogies is used analogously to the way Droogs is used in A Clockwork Orange: by the leader of a group addressing the other members of the group.

    Given that Infinite Jest's content matter deals substantially with drug abuse and addiction, the word may be a false paronym for the slang druggies.

    December 19, 2006