Meaning of toejam | Babel Free

Examples

“A hard yarn twangs the tension and fires its broad arrow out of a grim space of Old Australian smells: toejam, tomato sauce, semen and dead singlets the solitary have called peace but which is really an unsurrendered trench.”

“devils like elvis & pat boone who never duck-walked back in the alley with you & bo diddley, little richard & the fatman from new orleans all yall slapping down songs meaner than the smell of toejam & rot-gut whiskey breath back there, in them back rooms”

“Feeling like an embarrassed bit of toejam plucked from the un-American foot of the Green (Communist) Party, I headed home to the kid.”

“I clapped along sedately during the aarti, constantly making sure my pallu stayed over my head, but somehow, I couldn’t get myself to pray. The fact that there was a definite smell of toejam lurking below the incense didn’t help.”

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