craque fumeurs
Glossary term
/kʁak fy.mœʁ/
Crack-smokers [mock/Frenchified vernacular]. One constituency in the novel’s urban anthropology.
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Who uses the word
- Hawksmoor Perroquet confronts (1 passage)
- Medusa ← mobilises (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…of mob which Medusa the gorgon, turning hearts to stone, could assemble and marshall with her loudhailer - craque fumeurs and drinquers of fermented apple juice, blaque-clad fellow anarquistes, and members of the … er … squatting community. Several of these oxygen thieves were in questionable control of slavering dogues, these beasts no respecters of the Mayoral dignity, but rather giving all the indications of wishing to gobble him up.…