2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 52: He was decked down tough and had gold in his mouth.at decked, adj.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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
2002 W.D. Myers Handbook for Boys 13: Moms thinks maybe [my uncle’s] losing it in the mental department.at lose it, v.
2002 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
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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
2002 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
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2002 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.