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[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 21: I never got on or off the elevator that I wasn’t approached by a wino, trying to cop a beg.
at cop a beg (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 118: ‘To look at him you wouldn’t think he had sense enough to pour piss outa a boot’.
at not have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot, v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 473: He decided to string the strange addict along for a while.
at string (along), v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 55: ‘I get a pain in the ass every time I hear some broad talking all dainty about she don’t like sex’.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 240: ‘Since you you got your ass way up on your back, Mister Bastid, you can at least give us cab fare’.
at get one’s ass on one’s shoulder(s) under ass, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 349: ‘Are you going down the Sinman’s or are you going to drag your square balls all day?’.
at drag one’s ass, v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 466: ‘He don’t ask to cash no check and so that’s a natural giveaway’.
at give-away, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 62: [of sexual intercourse] To lay up with a chick, whaling away while Gloria was rotting in jail.
at whale away, v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 207: ‘These Logan niggers is back-riders, they always got to be bugging you’.
at back-rider (n.) under back, n.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 274: ‘Them square cats like them fat-assed bitches. They likes to back scuttle ’em’.
at backscuttle, v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 218: ‘These niggers go for bad and take off a whitey now and then’.
at go for bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 170: ‘When that old bag is busy you go in’.
at bag, n.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 41: ‘Let me have one bag,’ he said [...] producing a five-dollar bill [ibid.] 70: These bags, as junkies called the glassine packets of heroin, contained one dosage and sold for five dollars.
at bag, n.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 196: They’re planning to move out in the middle of the night leaving the said refugees holding the bag.
at hold the bag, v.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 138: ‘You’re getting to be a ballbreaker, buddee. A real pain in the ass’.
at ball-breaker, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 130: ‘Ball? How could I be having a ball?’ ‘A rdink. Don’t you kow what it means to have a ball or two?’.
at ball, n.2
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 16: Barflies. There’s no torure on earth worth than that feeling of loneliness you get after laying up with one of those.
at bar-fly, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 173: ‘Batshit,’ I said and [...] I meant every syllable.
at batshit, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 339: ‘I could go home up in the Bronx, but I’m beat. So help me Sid, I’m beat’.
at beat, adj.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 16: That beat-up junky broad.
at beat-up, adj.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 48: ‘This john thinks he’s a big thing [...] Like he’s in society even’.
at big thing, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 321: Ginsbrug and Epstein don’t pay off them Welfare bigshits like they oughta.
at big shit, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 12: What the devil kind of game was this slick old bird trying to run on me.
at old bird, n.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 41: ‘I offers bitches twenty-five bucks to turn the trick for me, which leaves me holding a cool six bits’.
at six bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 57: ‘And how the hell was he going to give you to me if you weren’t his bitch?’.
at bitch, n.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 244: Johnnie-Lee was a Welfare bitch if ever there was one.
at welfare bitch (n.) under bitch, n.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 20: ‘When Ronnie started blasting, I took off’.
at blast, v.1
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 12: [of a welfare hotel] All S.R.O.s were turning to Welfare joints [...] but at least it would seem that this wasn’t a bucket of blood...yet.
at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 15: Every time I got blotto I told that one [i.e. a liying story].
at blotto, adj.
[US] R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 47: ‘He even tried to make out like he’s not a boot himself, but he’s just as much nigger as I am’.
at boot, n.2
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