2007 W.D. Myers ‘society for the preservation of sorry-butt negroes’ in What They Found 138: What do you need a sorry-butt Negro like Harrison for?at sorry-ass, adj.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘some men are just funny that way’ in What They Found 79: ‘[T]hen the crowd starts getting in on the action because I’m a woman. They’re saying things like, “Yo, she’s busting you guys!”’.at bust, v.1
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the real deal’ in What They Found 167: Mavis Brown had come busting into his shop.at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
2007 W.D. Myers ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 186: ‘I can’t be running around dipping here and dipping there like my old man. I want something serious’.at dip, v.2
2007 W.D. Myers ‘what would jesus do?’ inWhat They Found 18: ‘So I had to ask Evelyn did she ever think that maybe the brother [a single male courting Evelyn] is on the down low? Sneaking around and seeing men and stuff like that?’.at on the down low under down low, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘some men are just funny that way’ in What They Found 79: ‘[T]his was a coaches’ tournament and there were a bunch of down dudes in the action’.at down, adj.1
2007 W.D. Myers ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 181: ‘[D]on’t be jumping up in my face because I don’t like that’.at up in someone’s face under face, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 181: I’m not the kind of girl who goes around getting into other people’s business and I definitely don’t want you in mine.at in someone’s face under face, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘what would jesus do?’ inWhat They Found 22: ‘Okay, sweetheart, there you are gaming on your best friend’s man’.at game on, v.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘society for the preservation of sorry-butt negroes’ in What They Found 138: If I got my game together I don’t want to be hanging with anybody who doesn’t even have a game.at get one’s game together (v.) under game, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 191: Then he would play something for the old people who needed to get their shake-shake-shake on.at get one’s — on (v.) under get, v.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the real deal’ in What They Found 172: ‘I think she still might have some feeling for him. I got to check that out before I get too far into her’.at get into, v.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘law and order’ in What They Found 114: ‘I made like I was shocked that she thought I was trying to get over with her’.at get over, v.2
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the man thing’ in What They Found 126: ‘Look, Pedro, you got any heat I can borrow?’ ‘Look, homey, I don't want you holding my piece because I don't think you're ready to go down that road’.at hold, v.1
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the man thing’ in What They Found 121: I was thinking serious about hooking up my own crib, nothing too fancy because I didn’t dig going into no whole lot of debt.at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the man thing’ in What They Found 127: I’d never been in jail but I knew a dozen guys who had been. They tried to hype it like it was no big thing, but I knew it was.at hype, v.1
2007 W.D. Myers ‘law and order’ in What They Found 112: ‘I didn’t have any money. My paper was so light I was down to reading yesterday’s newspaper’.at light, adj.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘law and order’ in What They Found 108: Yeah, fifty cents for a loose cigarette ain’t correct [...] You buying a Lucy they know you broke from jump street’.at loosies, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘madonna’ in What They Found 159: [H]e started talking about how I ‘owed him some loving.’ [...] I didn’t owe that fool nothing but I did want to know what it was like to have sex.at love (up), v.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the man thing’ in What They Found 120: ‘‘Man, you’re only seventeen and you copped your [high school diploma] papers already? [...] You the man, bro, you definitely the man!’’.at man, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the life you need to have’ in What They Found 59: Abeni said I was too quiet and shy for my own good, that I would never find a man if I didn’t learn to ‘put myself out there’.at out there, adj.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘mama’ in What They Found 31: ‘I’ll tell Mama not to buy you anything for Christmas.’ ‘Poopy head!’.at poophead (n.) under poop, n.2
2007 W.D. Myers ‘some men are just funny that way’ in What They Found 81: ‘I went after Michael big-time just to reclaim my propers’.at props, n.2
2007 W.D. Myers ‘what would jesus do?’ inWhat They Found 19: So I thought that I would talk to him and just push up on him enough to check him out.at push up (v.) under push, v.
2007 W.D. Myers What They Found 16: ‘African braiding and Korean nails. Go on with your bad self!’.at one’s ____ self under self, n.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 189: ‘I was three and a half months pregnant and I knew I was going to be showing’.at show, v.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the life you need to have’ in What They Found 55: ‘I’ll just [...] end up slobbering all over the place. You ever see how bad I look when I cry?’.at slobber, v.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘the life you need to have’ in What They Found 42: [of a male] Malcolm was, in a word, smoking. Every girl at Baldwin High had checked him out.at smoking, adj.
2007 W.D. Myers ‘madonna’ in What They Found 163: I was looking a little tacky, but the place wasn’t too tore up.at tacky, adj.1
2007 W.D. Myers What They Found 122: Little Eddie is my son, and I always thought that one day I would get my thing together and hook up with him.at get one’s thing together (v.) under thing, n.