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[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 126: Why don’t you cop a walk and come back in about an hour’.
at cop a walk (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 149: [ref. to Little Milton song, ‘Grits Ain’t Groceries’ (1972)] ‘Ain’t you scared?’ ‘Ain’t grits groceries?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 85: I poured myself some of the rum, drowned that bad boy in some Coke .
at bad boy, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 127: ‘How come you never hit on me?’ ‘That ain’t what we’re about,’ I said. ‘You know, we ain’t about no bam-bam thing’.
at bam-bam, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 86: He got to be messing with the Big Man’s boxes [i.e. mailboxes], and if the Big Man catch you, you know you gonna catch some calendar space .
at big man (n.) under big, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 45: The other one was light-skinned, too, almost white. It like to broke Paul’s face to introduce me.
at break someone’s face, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 47: I could have either passed or went for the bucket myself. I went for the bucket.
at bucket, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 87: There was a little three-on-three action going down, and I [...] busted the first game I played. [...] Everything I threw up dropped in .
at bust, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 86: He got to be messing with the Big Man’s boxes [i.e. mailboxes], and if the Big Man catch you, you know you gonna catch some calendar space .
at calendar space (n.) under calendar, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 85: ‘I can’t stand to see nobody [...] carrying on at no funeral when they didn’t give two cents for the body when it had life in it’ .
at two cents’ worth, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 46: ‘Now check this out. Even though it’s supposed to be a showcase, the idea of winning or losing is important’.
at check out, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 44: ’’What did you ever do for your own people?’ Paul asked. That got me mad because I felt I was being chumped off .
at chump off (v.) under chump, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 105: I’d say they chumped me off so they could let some white boy on the team.
at chump off (v.) under chump, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 70: ‘You can’t say this to them and you can’t say that to them because they think you’re chumping them off in front of their woman’.
at chump (someone) down (v.) under chump, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 66: ‘Hey man, cool out,’ she said. ‘I didn’t mean nothing’.
at cool out, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 98: ‘What we’re going to work on today,’ Cal said, ‘is Mr. Calvin Jones’s TIT.’ ‘It sounds better than Gatorade,’ Roy said, and everybody cracked on that.
at crack on (v.) under crack, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 48: [T]hey were winning easy. [...] Even the referees were cracking on us.
at crack on, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 31: I’m tired of these cats come around and talking like they want to take care of business and don’t show when the deal goes down.
at deal, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 82: ‘[S]he had to go downtown and see about getting an emergency digit because her check and some others had been stolen.’ .
at digits, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 40: I didn’t give him [i.e. a basketball coach] a lot of static [...] even if he was wrong in some of the things he was putting down.
at put down, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 118: ‘You guys ain’t men enough to play with me,’ he said. He laid it down like he meant it, too.
at lay down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 4: I listened to that [i.e. maternal complaints] until she got tired of running it; then I split.
at run it down (v.) under run down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 13: ‘I’m going to go upstairs and check something out, and then I’ll be right back down if everything isn’t everything’ .
at everything is everything under everything, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 100: [E]verybody wanted to get their flick in the paper.
at flick, n.4
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 3: All along, though, I had my game. My game was my fame, and I knew it was together.
at game, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 17: ‘What you mean is you want to follow your punk friends to some punk school.’ ‘If it gets me over, yeah’ .
at get over, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 11: Her mother came back with [...] the usual noise people be handing out when they come up short.
at hand out, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 87: I didn’t like to mess with no angel dust because too many heads was messing with it .
at head, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 79: [S]he was really hoofing. I had to walk fast to keep up with her.
at hoof, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Hoops 14: Most of the guys I had been playing with [...] most of my life, and I knew they could hoop .
at hoop, v.3
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