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[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] [He] stood in a white t-shirt so baggy it appeared a sleeping gown. His ashy knees showed beneath it.
at ashy, adj.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] Rap music’s half-assed excuse for English.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] There’s a bunch of bald heads running around on the grass.
at baldhead, n.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] [of marijuana] I gave him that bammer. [...] That shit was so weak I left it up by the coffee.
at Bama, n.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘I’m worried about my cheddar, baby, and that shit you had last month was bammer’.
at bama, adj.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] This guy wasn’t bigtime or anything like that.
at big-time, adj.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘I got some bomb Humboldt Chronic. None of that Compton niggerweed’.
at bomb, adj.1
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] Art Laboe’s [radio] show is still the bomb.
at bomb, n.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘You got seventy dollars?’ ‘I got a lot more than seventy bones’.
at bone, n.4
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] So Junie knew he was bound to get his ass beat, and [...] just booked it.
at book, v.2
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] June and Kiddy were in there, but [they] couldn’t hear his knocking for all the knocking boots of their own.
at knock boots (with) (v.) under boots, n.4
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] He took a drink from the brownbagged bottle.
at brownbag, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘All my makeup’s there. My fucking caboodle’s there, Junie’.
at caboodle, n.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] She’d begun rolling her cage down in the eighth, then the seventh, finally the sixth, before I got canned.
at can, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] Sure everyone’ll spread the chisme about you for a little while. Spread the cheese like Velveeta on a cracker. But I’ll stick to my story and that’ll be the one that lasts.
at spread the cheese (v.) under spread the cheese, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] He looked disappointed. Like he’d been expecting someone else. Probably that chick. Kiddy.
at chick, n.1
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘You just broke up with Kiddy and you already found a new chickenhead?’.
at chickenhead, n.1
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘I got some bomb Humboldt Chronic. None of that Compton niggerweed’.
at chronic, n.2
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘I mean what set you claim?’ ‘I’m from right here, man. I don’t want any shit’.
at claim, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] Spanky clotheslined him over the barrier. His heels shot skyward. He fell into the pit.
at clothesline, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] The cluckers at the payphones by the giant donut-topped shop in Compton.
at cluck, n.4
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘She looks colder than a witch’s tit’.
at ...a witch’s tit under colder than..., adj.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘Chaperone? You crack my shit up, Brenton’.
at crack someone up (v.) under crack, v.2
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] I got to admit, it’s nice, homie. Cruising with you like we used to.
at cruise, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] He looked hard, man. [...] Like the next man they meet could be the one to do them in.
at do in, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘Get your ass in here, dog’.
at dog, n.2
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘Don’t talk about my mom, Junie. Don’t say shit about her.’ [...] ‘I’m not dogging on her. I’m complimenting you’.
at dog, v.1
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] ‘I’ll be damned,’ Kate said, [...] ‘if his ex-wife is gonna get to run this cat and pony show’.
at dog and pony show (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] The dude in the RV next to us mad dogged her.
at mad dog, v.
[US] C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] So. That’s what went down. That’s how I knew it was true—June was back.
at go down, v.
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