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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio choose

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[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 79: I grabbed him by the back of the neck, and put my 007 [knife] in his back.
at 007, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 46: Right now, it’s the moyos be bringing in the marked necks and the A.J.’s. That be the moyos with the fly clothes.
at A.J.s, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 45: I even hate Puerto Ricans that afro. I hate them like any other black man [running his hands through Primo’s hair].
at afro, v.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 97: You get caught up with it. You do it, and you say, ‘Ay, fuck it today!’ Another day, another dollar.
at another day, another dollar, phr.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 102: I think he had a roach up his ass, ’cause it’s slow. He was pissed off ’cause the electrician from Con Ed [...] didn’t show up.
at have a bug up one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 128: My mom’s always worked too. She worked hard; she busted ass.
at bust ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 159: I dressed good, like in nice baggies, and fancy shoes.
at baggies, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 273: I have light brown eyes [...] and a nice big butt and big juicy balangas.
at balangas, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 36: They should never have attempted that shit because they got the beat-down of their lives.
at beat-down, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 38: They got their large mammoth [...] Alabama black snake with its magnets out plunging you. Alabama black snake found its way to the assets boy!
at blacksnake, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 79: Let me tell you about one time when I was on a mission [crack binge]. I wanted a blast.
at blast, n.1
[US] P. Bourgois In Search of Respect 164: Economists and real estate agents call this gentrification. On the street, I heard it referred to as ‘bleachification’.
at bleachification (n.) under bleach, v.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 121: Everytime they sent me to some company, boom! I’m hired.
at boom!, excl.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 109: The Social Club was raided half a dozen times, because it doubled as a pool hall and bootleg bar.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 102: We’re selling two-dollar bottles for five bucks.
at bottle, n.1
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 141: He always had a big box.
at box, n.1
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 94: At first even if we broke night [stayed awake partying all night], the next day I went to my job.
at break night (v.) under break, v.1
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 194: We be smoking cheeba; drinking brew; hanging out on the Deuce.
at brew, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 236: She wanted to get dressed to go to Jackie’s house, right then and there, to fuck her up [...] I was like, ‘Oh shit! This is bugged.’.
at bugged, adj.1
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 236: She screamed at me, ‘Hey, you bugging? You wanta go home?’.
at bugging, adj.2
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 255: candy: I told her ‘Don’t even think of sitting next to me.’ [...] primo: [grinning] You was bummed, hunh?
at bummed (out), adj.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 159: I couldn’t come in bummy, because my supervisor would tell me, ‘Why you coming in like that?’.
at bummy, adj.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 192: We used to go in posses, and bum rush through hallways.
at bumrush, v.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 343: In New York City, a ‘bundle’ refers to an established quantity of prepackaged drugs ready for individual retail sale. The number of packets in a bundle changes depending on the drug and its cost, i.e., a bundle of heroin is ten $10 glassine envelopes, whereas a bundle of crack is twenty-five vials when they cost $5 each and fifty-five vials when they are worth $3 each.
at bundle, n.1
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 210: Luis busted out a lot of virgins.
at bust out, v.6
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 38: They take your ass and stuff it with some mad concrete. They fill your canyon. Word!
at canyon, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 21: Yo! Big Ray! Check out this picture of me in the papers!
at check out, v.2
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 22: Two loosely knit youth gangs [...] the TCC (The Cheeba [marijuana] Crew) and la Mafia Boba (the Sly Mafia).
at cheeb, n.
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 38: Don’t you come cryin’ to me when they take that ass a’ yours downtown and bust your cherry.
at bust a cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] (con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 35: Yo Pops [waving Primo over], listen to this, [turning to me] Felipe thinks the block is chill.
at chill, adj.
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