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[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 43: ‘I got your back and everything be cool’.
at have someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 165: ‘He getting his head bad [...] You see how his nose was running and what he want to borrow’.
at get one’s head bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 149: ‘If it wasn’t for people talking on Randy—big-mouth people like you—he wouldn’t even be in jail today’.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 43: ‘Randy say they can carry for the Spanish guys over near Ninety-sixth Street. They can make that money easy.’.
at carry, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 39: ‘Why you got to lean on my ‘chine?’ Jamal looked at the car, then got off of it.
at ’chine, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 158: ‘I think he looking for a way to chump me off so he can take over the Scorpions’.
at chump off (v.) under chump, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 208: The deal went down the way the deal went down! You on the street, you got to take what the street put down.
at deal, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 208: You on the street, you got to take what the street put down.
at put down, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 82: ‘I don’t like your mouth, man [...] You want to go down with me or something?’.
at get down, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 163: ‘[H]e did his thing and I did mine and everything was everything’.
at everything is everything under everything, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 149: ‘Don’t jump up in my face ’cause you got a gun’.
at up in someone’s face under face, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 207: ‘Indian in the slam. Angel he down there in the city icebox’.
at icebox, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 40: ‘Hey, Jamal, what it is?’ Jamal looked up.
at what is it?, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 163: ‘They ain’t gonna mess with you if they know you ain’t scared to use the piece [...] Ain’t nobody in no big hurry to kick out’.
at kick out, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 18: ‘I went down there [...] and he came loudmouthing me in front of everybody.’.
at loudmouth, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 207: ‘You got to run the Scorpions [...] You the man, Mack’.
at man, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 163: ‘He had that reading and mess down pat and he didn’t run no games’.
at mess, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 115: ‘Oh, mess, she saw us.’ Tito turned and saw a thin woman standing near a lamppost.
at mess!, excl.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 56: If Randy got out again, he was just going to do some more messing up.
at mess up, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 121: ‘If they both jump on me I’m going to mess them up’.
at mess up, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 71: ‘How her hand?’ ‘Messed up. She put some lard on it’.
at messed (up), adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 14: ‘He gonna mess around,’ the dark, squat woman said, ‘and they gonna put that murder right on him’.
at put on, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 42: ‘You know I ain’t got that kind of dust, man. If I had it, I would shoot it on down to the lawyer’.
at shoot, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 149: ‘If it wasn’t for people talking on Randy—big-mouth people like you—he wouldn’t even be in jail today’ .
at talk on (v.) under talk, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 79: ‘[H]ere the thing. Put it in your belt, man.’ Jamal took the shiny pistol.
at thing, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 41: Willie the one done turned him. They got Willie on possession, and then he tried to cop him a plea by turning Randy and me.
at turn, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Scorpions 43: ‘I’m the Mack,’ Mack said. ‘I’m still the warlord. They don’t mess with the Mack’.
at warlord (n.) under war, n.
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