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[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 13: [T]hey got to throw up a prayer because they too tired to bust anything real.
at prayer, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 138: Country Day had some nice uniforms but they didn’t have anybody on their team who was all that.
at all that, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 116: Jimmy was there barking at Ducky. Nick was [...] stopping Jimmy from punching out Ducky.
at bark at (v.) under bark, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 177: ‘But say I was your blood, right?’ [...] ‘if you were my blood?’ Goldy leaned against the wall. ‘You mean, like, if you were my son or something?’ .
at blood, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 83: Moms broke out into crying again [...] It made me feel bad to see Moms break up.
at break up, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 183: [of an inaccurate basketball shot] [H]e couldn’t make a shot. Guy threw up so many bricks he could have been in construction.
at brick, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 80: It was me, burning on the court, doing the wild thing with the ball [...] Me.
at burn, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 178: ‘[W]hen you are doing what you love, you got to bust it. And when you do, it works’.
at bust it (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 73: [of a Mercedes] That’s the way to live, my man.’ ‘Drive around in a big ‘chine like this’.
at ’chine, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 159: We had the ball and I went coast-to-coast with Brothers breathing on me.
at coast-to-coast, adv.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 113: He knew the game was getting away and [...] he was still going to come down lame.
at come down, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 35: ‘It’s your life, do you care?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Then deal with it’.
at deal, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 72: ‘Maybe we can double deal with Ice and Bianca if you and her make up,’ I said.
at double deal (n.) under double, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 117: I know if he throws on me I’m going to light him up.
at throw down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 33: Grandma had another person in her [hospital] room, a woman who looked like she was really tore down.
at tore down, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 30: I had let it ride, laying off some lame excuse.
at lay down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 203: What I would have really liked to have happened was to let the coach come up and jump up in my face.
at up in someone’s face under face, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 129: Web was clowning [...] and flashing gang signals.
at flash, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 128: ‘If he’s got a problem with me he’d better just get over it’.
at get over it under get over, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 71: ‘How come you always got to have business with my man?’ Bianca said. ‘Don’t even go there, girl,’ Kicky said. ‘ [...] you know it’s not happening’.
at don’t (even) go there under go, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 132: I cut toward where he hung. All the time I’m walking down to his crib I’m thinking how I know I should talk to him.
at hang, v.3
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 133: he two guys hooked up at the curb and put their heads together.
at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 117: Then the only thing I could dream about is being on the same corner as the other brothers, looking for something to hook into.
at hook into (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 29: One day you would see a guy on the corner being slick and the next day you would hear he was hooked up in a cell somewhere.
at hooked up, adj.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 113: He knew the game was getting away and [...] he was still going to come down lame.
at lame, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 203: What I would have really liked to have happened was to let the coach come up and jump up in my face. Then I could light him up.
at light up, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 65: ‘You lit them up good [...] What they doing, keeping you out for a half to keep the game close?’.
at light up, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 88: I spun, cut him off with my elbow, and made the layup. All over. Lights out.
at lights (out) (n.) under light, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 191: ‘Carl looks out,’ she said. ‘He was as happy to find the camera for us as I was to get it back’.
at look out (v.) under look, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Slam! 80: [B]efore the game everybody was looking at me like I was nothing and then after the game I was the man.
at man, n.
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