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Motown and Didi choose

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[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 50: ‘I thought I’d put some stuff [i.e. heroin] on the street [...] We ain’t even going to charge [...] just let everybody cop for air’.
at for air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 157: You ever see an old junkie? You ever see one of them slick boys popping that bad stuff live more than a few years?
at bad stuff under bad, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 129: Carlos got ten big bills and some change for wasting a cat.
at big bill (n.) under bill, n.3
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 136: [H]e would shoot them back a glance that would curdle water, that would make a blind man blink, that would stop babies from growing.
at enough to make a blind man blink (phr.) under blind, adj.1
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 156: It hadn’t been cut at all, not even once. There was a feeling of panic [...] He reached for his chest, felt his heart beating. He had been burned!
at burn, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 59: ‘How you get in that building over there [...] ?’ Motown asked. ‘None of your B.I. business!’ .
at none of ones B.I. business under business, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 125: ‘That little chippy I had, using stuff on the weekends and things, well, it’s grown up now’.
at chippie, n.5
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 56: ‘I’ll deal with your butt when the time is right. [...] When the time comes, I’m dealing and I’m dealing hard!’.
at deal, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 25: He [i.e. a heroin addict] had thought about kicking out cold, putting it all down at once.
at put down, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 26: Now it was get-down time with his own jones [...] What he would do was to get clean again.
at get-down time (n.) under get down, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 69: Reggie had some dope with him, enough to fix Tony up for the day.
at fix up, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 136: Even with the gun he was weak, flapping his lips to get his courage up.
at flap one’s mouth (v.) under flap, v.4
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 25: [H]e was [...] twisting around to find a vein and telling himself that at least he would never freebase.
at freebase, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 27: [T]he word on the block was that Touchy had got to him.
at get to, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 156: There would be no high. No good feeling. None of it was ‘good stuff’.
at good stuff (n.) under good, adj.1
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 23: He didn’t let anything slide, and when there was more territory to walk into, the downtown people always knew who could handle it.
at walk into, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 25: He [i.e. a heroin addict] had thought about kicking out cold, putting it all down at once, taking the agony and doing it.
at kick, v.4
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 26: [He] would be to use his touch with the life to keep himself straight.
at life, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 237: He thought about staying low for a while, but he didn’t think that was the way to play it.
at low, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 56: ‘I told y’all to get on out of here with that mess [...] I got payin’ customers in here’.
at mess, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 67: ‘I think Touchy tried to mess over me [...] He tried to get me arrested’.
at mess over (v.) under mess, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 19: He had already got into his smart-mouth ways.
at smart-mouth, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 22: The thing he had learned first in life was that you didn’t play with people and you didn’t let people play with you.
at play around (v.) under play, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 50: [of heroin[ ‘[J]ust let everybody cop for air so they can check out our product’.
at product, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 23: [H]e was always straight in his dealings. He didn’t let anything slide.
at let slide (v.) under slide, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Motown and Didi 95: Reggie figured he’d sound on Motown and see what he knew.
at sound on (v.) under sound, v.
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