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It Ain’t All for Nothin’ choose

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[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 118: ‘[T]hey try to get next to another guy’s kids and then chump him off by being nice. I dug that action before’.
at action, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 66: Lonnie said [...] he was going to show me how to play ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 52: I [i.e. a 12-year-old boy] went outside to the bathroom. I said, ‘Good morning,’ and Stone said, ‘Good morning, little brother’.
at little brother, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 93: [N]o one hardly lived there except some bummy-looking guys.
at bummy, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 118: ‘[T]hey try to get next to another guy’s kids and then chump him off by being nice’.
at chump off (v.) under chump, v.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 96: ‘That [i.e. domestic violence] how come you was messing around forty-deuce?’ ‘Forty what?’ ‘Forty-second Street’.
at Forty-Deuce, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 65: One [thiing] was hating on Lonnie and the other was not hating on him.
at hate on (v.) under hate, v.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 44: If a young person was looking out the window, then sometimes the people on the street would say something, especially if it was a girl. ‘Hey, Mama, I sure would like to be doing your homework’ .
at homework (n.) under home, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 135: Bubba was walking cool but Lonnie was walking hoppy, like he was still excited.
at hoppy, adv.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 115: Then I can [...] go on to jail and you can run to church and thank God that I ain’t jiving up your life’.
at jive up (v.) under jive, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 96: ‘I bet you get all the pies you want, right?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘That’s the joint, man. That’s really okay’ [ibid.] 127: ‘Maybe you’d be a nice husband.’ ‘I’d be the serious joint,’ I said.
at joint, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 94: What’s what supposed to mean?’ ‘That mess about having parents,’ he said.
at mess, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 126: ‘How’d you find out? [...] about the baby.’ ‘Oh, I miss my month’.
at monthlies, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 73: Every day they used to pick out their numbers and bet them with Jack when he came around [ibid.] 120: One time I daydreamt about him winning a lot of money on a number.
at numbers, the, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 73: Lonnie and Stone was on the stoop, too, waiting for Jack, the numbers man.
at numbers-banker (n.) under numbers, the, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 192: ‘We scooped enough cash to lay up for a while, maybe you can take Denise down to Puerto Rico’.
at scoop, v.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 95: [H]e was scrunched up in the corner.
at scrunch, v.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 116: ‘You want me to get a job and go square, right?’ .
at turn square (v.) under square, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 196: I put on the stories for him and we watched them together.
at story, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 216: ‘You going to write to me? I got to let everybody know I got me a big son out here on the street’.
at street, the, n.
[US] W.D. Myers It Ain’t All for Nothin 118: ‘A lot of faggots figure they can turn you before your manhood gets set, then you messed up for life’.
at turn, v.1
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