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Autobiography of My Dead Brother choose

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[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 70: ‘[S]ome people are going to pick up the bad stuff and somebody is going to supply it’.
at bad stuff under bad, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 164: I wasn’t down for no gangbanging, but it was as if we were being sucked into it.
at gang-banging, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 60: ‘You see this place? This ain’t about what you seen on TV. This is the Big Keep’.
at big keep (n.) under big, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 141: [H]e had his hand up giving us the bird without turning around.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 49: ‘You don’t say good morning to your elders, Jesse?’ Miss Essie asked. ‘Good morning, Miss Essie.’ ‘Did that hurt your face?’.
at break someone’s face, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 4: [I]f he got into a good high school, he was going to bust his chops so he could go on to college.
at bust one’s chops (v.) under chops, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 81: Then C.J. came in on the piano and you could see them straighten up. C.J. was cooking from the get-go.
at cook, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 200: Yo, man, I’m crazy scared.
at crazy, adv.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 145: ‘You getting a little deep,’ C.J. said. ‘But it feels right’.
at deep, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 113: When Calvin ran it back at me, it sounded more like everyday news.
at run down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 139: [H]is moms had put down him playing with our little Cuban band.
at put down, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 159: ‘That’s why you called? To keep me from going down with the Diablos?’.
at go down, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 199: He was dressed down in a gray suit with a pink shirt and some bad patent leather shoes.
at dressed down (adj.) under dressed, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 97: ‘You did the drive-by?’ ‘I dropped the word,’ Rise said.
at drop the word (v.) under drop, v.4
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 118: I had promised myself fifty leben times I would stop drawing.
at fifty-eleven, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 80: [H]er house was like something out of a magazine, it was so fine.
at fine, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 102: Tania told me that if I was ever uptight for something to eat, I could come here and Connie [a waitress] would fix me up.
at fix up, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 53: ‘Then something happens—your buzz gets freaky or the guy you’re trying to take off gets jumpy—and you move your finger a half inch and somebody’s dead’.
at freaky, adj.1
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 169: When’s the last time anyone arranged a gangbang and ran it by the po-lice?’.
at gangbang, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 159: Dad said it used to be only the white papers that ran all the garbage news about black people.
at garbage, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 59: ‘[I]f you did order the firebombing you ought to cool it, because if somebody died you would get homicide.’.
at get, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 102: [I]f all you’re going to do is hang in the hood, [school] don’t mean nothing.
at hang, v.3
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 102: ‘I don’t go to school anymore.’ ‘How come?’ ‘‘Cause it’s not happening’ .
at happen, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 32: Iron City had so many brothers hooked up that it looked like Homeyville.
at hooked up, adj.1
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 161: I didn’t want it to look like I was copping a humble.
at humble, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 32: Iron City had so many brothers hooked up that it looked like Homeyville.
at iron city (n.) under iron, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 165: I was right in the middle of the joint, and it wasn’t a hundred percent clear what the action was.
at joint, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 57: So I see you keepin’ on,’ Rise said.
at keep on keeping on (v.) under keep, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 23: I needed to have a hip way of saying it [i.e. giving a warning] so that I wouldn’t just sound like I’m laming out.
at lame out (v.) under lame, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 159: I tried to get my mad going again, but it was hard.
at mad, n.
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