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[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 92: ‘If they don’t kill each [...] they’re liable to end up with AIDS. And the big A will definitely take you on out of this world’.
at big A, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 160: [W]hen I got out I busted on up to her crib.
at bust, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 171: [H]e said he had some weed and needed thirty cents for it,’ Kevin said. [...] ‘He bought thirty dollars worth of weed?’.
at cent, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 120: ‘I either had to deal with [institutional racism] or let it deal with me. I chose to deal with it’.
at deal, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 52: He was decked down tough and had gold in his mouth.
at decked, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 138: ‘I bet you feel funny sitting there hearing me talk about God, don't you? [...] Me putting God all up in your face when you just want to eat your breakfast’.
at up in someone’s face under face, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 12: [W]hen people do things for you, they start getting all up in your business.
at in someone’s face under face, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 115: ‘Five years of sitting in a cell, worrying if somebody [...] wants to make you their girlfriend’.
at girlfriend, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 13: Moms thinks maybe [my uncle’s] losing it in the mental department.
at lose it, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 174: [He] had seen all the ways that people could get themselves jived around.
at jive around (v.) under jive, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 178: When they had chewed all the flavor out of the tobacco or snuff, they’d spit it out.’ ‘And nobody told them that was nasty?’.
at nasty, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 22: Ain’t no use in putting out a whole lot of money every time it [i.e. a refrigerator] makes a little noise.
at put out, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 142: ‘He’s an okay dude, but his grades are, like, not even on the page’.
at on the page (adj.) under page, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 171: [T]he police rolled up on us and said they had seen the deal go down.
at roll up on (v.) under roll, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 142: ‘And then he ran this rap about how he would see Bobby one day [...] getting into the back of a police car’.
at run, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 106: ‘How many children you say you got out there?’ Mr. M asked. ‘I got three shorties,’ Tariq said.
at shorty, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 106: ‘I don’t mess with no funky women [...] If they don’t keep themselves clean and nice, I don’t even talk to them. If you see some skank [...] she won’t be on my arm’.
at skank, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 124: He wore a light-blue jacket over a sweatshirt, camouflage pants and dirty skips.
at skip, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 150: ‘When I get through this mess, I’m going to be a changed man. [. . . .] I’m going to get my thing together and move out to the ‘burbs’.
at get one’s thing together (v.) under thing, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 158: ‘Man, everything is cool [...] I got my thing together, wrapped tight and in the light’.
at wrapped tight(ly) (adj.) under tight, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 24: [A]s soon as I got myself together, I would catch up on the rent.
at get oneself together (v.) under together, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 12: The money wasn’t that tough, but I dug it because Inez, that’s my moms, didn’t have no whole lot of cash.
at tough, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 36: If Cap was my age, I would have been upside his head and he knew it.
at upside, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 85: ‘[Y]ou can choose to go into some warehouse for young people [and] get yourself a record’ .
at warehouse, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 11: I wasted him [...] I was so mad that when it should have been over, I kept punching him.
at waste, v.
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