2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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
2005 W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 145: ‘You getting a little deep,’ C.J. said. ‘But it feels right’.at deep, adj.
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 118: I had promised myself fifty leben times I would stop drawing.at fifty-eleven, n.
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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.
2005 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
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 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.
2005 W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 159: I tried to get my mad going again, but it was hard.at mad, n.