2000 W.D. Myers ‘Monkeyman’ in 145th Street 78: Clean was getting off with everybody standing around trying to cop a plea for Monkeyman.at cop a plea, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 144: I have eaten girlfriend’s potato salad and it’s not all that .at all that, adj.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘A Story in Three Parts’ in 145th Street 121: Now, they said he wasn’t a particularly cruel man [but] he had done what he had done [i.e. sold his slaves’ children] and he wasn’t backing up .at back up, v.1
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 142: ‘Hey, Squeeze, what’s happening?’ he said. ‘Hey, J.T.,’ I came back.at come back, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Monkeyman’ in 145th Street 80: ‘How about tomorrow night, eleven o’clock [...] ?’ Monkeyman said. ‘Bet!’ the Tigros dude said.at bet!, excl.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 145: ‘Right, so now J.T.’s mad at me, and I hurt my moms, and now my main girl is hurt, too’ .at main bitch, n.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘A Story in Three Parts’ in 145th Street 126: ‘She got to get a scholarship to get into this school she wants to make up in Boston, man.’ You can’t carry the weight?’ Big Time asked.at carry weight (v.) under carry, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Kitty and Mack: A Love Story’ in 145th Street 88: ‘I want to lead my life the way I want to lead it without you or anybody else telling me what I need to do [...] ’ ‘I guess that’s supposed to chump me off, right?’ .at chump off (v.) under chump, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Monkeyman’ in 145th Street 78: It got around in the cafeteria that Clean was going to do up Monkeyman.at do up, v.1
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Kitty and Mack: A Love Story’ in 145th Street 102: ‘Run it, Mack [...] ‘You talk all that good-doing stuff and I’ll listen’ .at run down, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 140: The closer the wedding got the more down she was.at down, adj.2
2000 W.D. Myers ‘The Baddest Dog in Harlem’ in 145th Street 19: ‘Anybody here know anything about it? [i.e. a gun] ’ We all said no and then the cop eased out.at ease, v.2
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 143: [W]hen Big Joe showed up with a portable barbecue grill everything was everything.at everything is everything under everything, n.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Monkeyman’ in 145th Street 80: One of the Tigros spotted Monkeyman and got up in his face.at up in someone’s face under face, n.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 145: ‘You know you got a fast mouth, girl [...] I don’t know how you can be so correct and righteous in your heart, and still fix your mouth to say all them mean things’.at fast mouth (adj.) under fast, adj.1
2000 W.D. Myers ‘A Story in Three Parts’ in 145th Street 127: He had paid twenty dollars for the hit and Sweet Jimmy’s stuff was correct but now he was freaking because of the guy watching him.at freak, v.3
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 144: I have eaten girlfriend’s potato salad and it’s not all that .at girlfriend, n.1
2000 W.D. Myers ‘A Story in Three Parts’ in 145th Street 126: ‘You need help?’ Big Time looked up and saw the kid that Sweet Jimmy let hang around. The kid could find a vein in the dark if you needed that kind of help. ‘Ain’t going there,’ Big Time said.at don’t (even) go there under go, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 150: We still see J.T. and his mama around. They’re not really kicking it too tough right now but they’re sliding by.at kick it, v.2
2000 W.D. Myers ‘The Streak’ in 145th Street 55: My main man, my ace, the Jack who’s got my back, is Froggy Williams.at jack, n.1
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Monkeyman’ in 145th Street 77: ‘He needs a gun,’ Fee said. ‘That’s the only thing they respect.’ [...] From a scrap in the street the jam was jumping to nines.at jam, n.1
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Kitty and Mack: A Love Story’ in 145th Street 87: [B]aseball was Mack’s joint and that was where he figured to be headed.at joint, n.
2000 W.D. Myers 145th Street ‘Monkeyman’ in 77: [A] lot of kids were [...] trying to make themselves large by going to wack city and offing somebody.at large, adj.
2000 W.D. Myers 145th Street ‘Monkeyman’ in 77: [T]he truth was that I was glad it was Monkeyman on the line, and not me.at on the line, phr.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Monkeyman’ in 145th Street 78: ‘I got to be watching Monkeyman’s back the same way he turned out for me’.at turn out, v.4
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Kitty and Mack: A Love Story’ in 145th Street 88: Some of the kids thought that Dottie was sweating Mack and was just mad because he didn’t give her a play.at play, n.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘The Streak’ in 145th Street 56: ‘I dropped the bottle, it broke on the floor, and everybody had to pussyfoot around the floor so they wouldn’t get cut’.at pussyfoot, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘The Streak’ in 145th Street 55: Froggy is definitely for real. Only thing is that he doesn’t know scratch about ball.at not know scratch (about) (v.) under scratch, n.7
2000 W.D. Myers ‘Block Party–145th Street Style’ in 145th Street 143: [T]hat’s not the way she shows when things go right.at show, v.
2000 W.D. Myers ‘A Story in Three Parts’ in 145th Street 124: ‘You should check out these Snow Whites on the tube, man. They each got two boyfriends and they messing with both of them’.at snow, n.1