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[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘What you do with your dick is your business, Mr. Atchison. I could give two shakes of a rat’s ass’.
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘You was always cool with me,’ he said. ‘Ain’t about a thang, Snowman. Just remember: cash be kang’.
at ain’t about nothing, phr.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘And I would do this for you—why?’ I shrugged. ‘Because you think I’m aces?’.
at aces, adj.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘I’d tell you to kiss my ass,” I said, “but I don’t want you getting that close to me’.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Mr. Snow is the pain-in-my-ass I’ve occasionally referred to in our morning briefings’.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Fuck you, ass-wipe’.
at ass-wipe, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Nice night to be somewhere else, isn’t it, asshole?’ I said.
at asshole, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘If I could put him away for that, I could certainly put you and most of congress away for life on the same charges’.
at put away, v.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Whatever it is, I got your back. Solid on your six’.
at have someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘She was a mean-spirited, selfish old bag who blustered and railed against the prevailing winds of change’.
at bag, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘You got a partner who leaves you holding the bag’.
at hold the bag, v.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] The guys who review the recordings at home office? Mostly baked. Basic training washouts or tech geek weenies working on their résumés.
at baked, adj.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] If you was plannin’ on makin’ that funky beast with two sweaty backs [etc].
at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Man say follow you. Give tune-up is all. Easy money’ [...] ‘Who told you to out a beatdown on me?’.
at beat-down, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Would you do it again?’ [...] Frank gave me a hard look. ‘Bet your sweet ass. In a fucking heartbeat’.
at bet one’s (sweet) ass (v.) under bet, v.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Listening to her bitch, moan, piss and groan about this, that and the other’.
at bitch and moan (v.) under bitch, v.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Botton-line it for me [...] In English’.
at bottom line, v.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Nigger can’t catch a break in this goddam town’.
at break, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Just remember: cash be kang. All other suckas can hit the bricks with they dicks in they fists’.
at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] Frank and I had to bug out quick.
at bug out, v.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Church is exactly the place for bullshit’.
at bullshit, n.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] Inside were six prepaid cell phones. Burners: good for two or three calls [...] then you drop the SIM card in the gutter and the phone in somebody else’s garbage.
at burner, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] He was carrying. I deprived him of his Sig Sauer.
at carry, v.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Tits were mostly transmuscular. Kind of like a new paint job and rims on a cherry ’67 Corvette’.
at cherry, adj.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] Frank analyzed his bagel. [...] ‘The chow on this job has been really outstanding’.
at chow, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] One of Spiegelman’s lackeys blew his cookies at the sight of naked, dead and mangled bodies.
at cookie, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] Danbury finally extended his hand. ‘We cool?’ Reluctantly, I nodded and shook his hand. ‘We cool’.
at cool, adj.
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Heard you was back in the D. Just wanted to say hey’.
at D, n.4
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘What you do with your dick is your business’.
at dick, n.1
[US] S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘You got some dinero, right?’.
at dinero, n.
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