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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
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