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One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs and Gender choose

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[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 132: ‘The guys, they just don’t give a fuck’.
at not give a fuck, v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 81: ‘Don’t nobody wanna fuck with him. That’s the big dog. Can’t hang with the big dog , you better stay your ass on the porch with the poodles’.
at ass, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 81: ‘I’m gettin’ my ass kicked for the simple fact I’m disobeyin’ you’.
at kick ass, v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 162: ‘We seen about five or six Bloods [...] We’s like “Oooh, look at all that little B-town right there.” And then we walkin’ through the mall like, “It’s C-town for life, it’s C-town”’.
at B-town, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 112: ‘They don’t even sell dope for real, little BGs out here selling for them’.
at b.g., n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 75: ‘[We expect members] to be true to our gang and to have our backs’.
at have someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 112: ‘They just ball like that and I’m gonna be up there one day eventually too’.
at ball, v.2
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 173: ‘They’re too weak to take a beat down’.
at beat-down, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 108: ‘[He] beat her up real bad [...] just beat her down, you know, crushed her’.
at beat down, v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 69: ‘These are my six friends right here so we’re all gonna fight and beat each other in and now we’re Crips’.
at beat in (v.) under beat, v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 86: Sometimes they beef and everything.
at beef, v.1
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 81: ‘Don’t nobody wanna fuck with him. That’s the big dog. Can’t hang with the big dog , you better stay your ass on the porch with the poodles’.
at big dog, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 131: ‘You either bounce or get bounced’.
at bounce, v.1
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 138: ‘I had to go buck her [...] Punch her, beat her up’.
at buck, v.2
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 86: ‘Everybody brings bud and forties. Sit there and get fucked up’.
at bud, n.2
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 139: ‘The other one put his stuff in her butt’.
at butt, n.1
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 141: ‘For maybe a drive-by they might wanna have a bunch of dudes’.
at drive-by, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 162: ‘We sen about five or six Bloods [...] We’s like “Oooh, look at all that little B-town right there.” And then we walkin’ through the mall like, “It’s C-town for life, it’s C-town”’.
at C-town, n.2
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 167: ‘If somebody catch your cousin, it’s gonna hurt you more than killing you’.
at catch, v.1
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 113: ‘We go to the park and play basketball, come back here and sit, just chill all day jawing’.
at chill (out), v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 56: ‘[It] be kinda fun, you know, bein’ around all your little friends, just chillin’’.
at chilling, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 53: She ‘claimed [Folks, a gang] because that’s what my brother was so I wanted to be like that too’.
at claim, v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 59: ‘If I’m gonna do somethin’, I’m gonna do it for myself, not for a clique’.
at click, n.2
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 145: The dudes [I] got to say they got the most clout, the most reputation.
at clout, n.4
[US] (con. 1990s) J. Miller One of the Guys 55: Triina said her aunts and cousins dressed her in gang colors from the time she was young.
at colours, n.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 90: ‘We ain’t cool no more. For the simple fact she did it to my boyfriend’.
at cool, adj.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 145: ‘I need to recop, somebody will page [the wholesale dealer] [...] come and meet us on the [...] little back porch. He’ll bring it over there’.
at cop, v.
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 157: ‘It was a Crab that raped my girl’.
at crab, n.3
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 47: ‘My mom smokin’ crack and she act like she didn’t wanna be part of my life’.
at crack, n.7
[US] (con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 136: ‘Any dude come over there [...] know that’s a Blood hood, you try to come over there Cripped out, you know you eventually have it some way’.
at Crip out (v.) under crip, v.
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