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Straight Dope choose

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[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] — [Y]ou done messed around. — That ain’t got nothing to do with it. — That always got something to do it.
at mess about, v.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [H]e comes out pulling sleep debris from his dented ’fro.
at afro, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] Just what the world needs, more privileged, white Anglos aping other cultures’ gods.
at anglo, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] — I don’t understand your business at all [...] It’s backward as an arse in front.
at arse about face under arse, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [L]ooking like a black Methuselah, his old, ashy knees poking out.
at ashy, adj.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] He’s who backed Ange in her gallery. And backed her other ways as well [...] Ange was under the impression that she was going to be Mrs. Schlein.
at back, v.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] A handful of sad eight-dollar balloons.
at balloon, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] If you want some old banger to give you a minute, tell him you’re talking to your mom.
at banger, n.6
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] Did she tell you her mother was in the bat house?
at bat house (n.) under bat, n.5
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I was half dead on benzos and blood pressure medicine.
at benzo, n.2
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I peeled off three C-notes like having a big dick wad of dough was my natural state.
at big dick (n.) under big, adj.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [Y]ou can’t let these British birds get the upper hand or all hell breaks loose.
at bird, n.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [E]very sordid deed and savage act of self-violence: every grunt, groan, bite mark and bitch-slap,.
at bitch slap, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] That’s me calling after him, but he’s booking hard.
at book, v.2
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I give her the sweetest, sweetheart, Jew-boy eyes I have.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] — Look, bra, we’re friends with Mac who works in the barbershop. — Don’t ‘bra’ me motherfucka.
at bra, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] A big off-brand flat-screen plays Mexican soccer.
at off-brand, adj.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] Hey bro, let me get a word with you.
at bro, n.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] — What the fuck you doin’ bitch? Put that burner down.
at burner, n.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [H]e busts a laugh just for punctuation,.
at bust, v.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] — Something tells me this is a butt dial?
at butt dial (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I forgot why they called him ‘Captain’ but it was a common street name for the old cats.
at captain, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I notice Claude, a cat I know.
at cat, n.5
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [S]hooting up wayward brown girls, teaching his producer how to chase the dragon.
at chase the dragon, v.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [T]ilt the foil more, so it comes toward you, you don’t really ‘chase’ it’.
at chase, v.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [T]he enlisted men and women of a ragtag Cholo army.
at cholo, adj.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] She had switched from literary critic back to Boyle Heights Chola.
at cholo, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] Carla was in just her choneys and a tiny shirt.
at choneys, n.
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [M]e and her would chop it up about books and writers.
at chop it up (v.) under chop, v.1
[US] T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] Going cold turkey off heroin is a hysterical four-day exorcism.
at cold turkey, adv.
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