1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 79: Francis was an ace. A real ace of spades. The tops.at ace of spades (n.) under ace, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 130: The last time she had seen Connie, the broad had been leaning against the front fence of a house on 132nd Street, puking her guts out. Drunk as Cooter Brown.at drunk as cooter brown, adj.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 99: ‘[He] got cured [of heroin addiction] in Attica, came out and started dealing. He’s a big wheel now.at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 143: ‘Spread the word. Put it in the eer of some bigmouth’.at bigmouth, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 34: ‘I’m gonna help you.’ Francis smiled. ‘Bingo,’ he said.at bingo!, excl.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 49: ‘I don’t care what you do as long as you don’t ask me to play chump with you’.at play chump (v.) under chump, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 183: ‘I don’t want hom to have any army at his side. Dig that real cool, keed’.at cool, adv.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 67: ‘You really going to risk prison for this — this dope fiend?’.at dope fiend (n.) under dope, n.1
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 150: This pad was the living end. The main issue.at living end, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 38: Her one leg was ulcerated, the giveaway sign of the farthest-out junkie.at far out, adj.1
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 88: ‘She’s raving [...] She flipped over Harry Brown’.at flip, v.4
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 202: ‘She’s been flying around here by the seat of her bare ass’.at fly by the seat of one’s pants (v.) under fly, v.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 63: It looked like a typical shooting gallery mattress. Bloody, dirty, and puke-stained.at shooting gallery, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 58: ‘You don’t want to go throwing no drink in this goofy dude’s eye’.at goofy, adj.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 187: ‘You take it [i.e. a criminal racket] over and all the big gravy Harry is paying out asuddenly stops’.at gravy, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 96: ‘You make with apologies and I’ll knock the livin’ hell outa you!’.at knock (the) hell of out (v.) under hell, the, phr.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 78: Maybe you want her for some kind of hit girl [...] Margo Hilliard is a professional killer [...] they used to call her ‘The Electric Knife’.at hit woman (n.) under hit, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 61: ‘You two ’ho’s still pushing your meth?’ she said conversationally.at ho, n.1
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 85: ‘I want to arrive in front of Gracie’s house in that helluva hog of a Rolls Royce’.at hog, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 25: ‘Maybe whiteys call whores “hookers” because there’s lots of women gotta be hooked on something or else they don’t function’.at hooker, n.3
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 113: ‘Harry is dying at St Luke’s Hospital. He jacked up his car’.at jack up, v.4
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 57: I‘ need bread. I’ll pay you back.’ [...] ‘Now, why the hell couldn’t I have realized that you might be jacked up?’.at jack up, v.1
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 134: Studs [a lesbian] came close to touch Boots’s breast. Boots stepped away [...] ‘Jailhouse love is for the birds, Studs’.at jailhouse love (n.) under jailhouse, adj.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 74: He wasn’t cool now [...] But what was to be expected [...] if he wasn’t frantic, he wouldn’t be a john.at john, n.2
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 183: ‘I don’t want hom to have any army at his side. Dig that real cool, keed’.at keed, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 185: ‘The real kicker is that thirty keys of dynamite “H” go with the deal’.at kicker, n.3
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 43: ‘Somebody lifted all of Francis Williams’ holdings before he died’.at lift, v.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 186: Well, he had started out as a pimp, and now maybe he had a who here who possessed a four-million-dollar money-maker.at money-maker (n.) under money, n.
1978 R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 86: The people in narco nowadays simply do not have good sense’.at narco, n.