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[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] W.D. Myers ‘the man thing’ in What They Found 126: ‘Look, Pedro, you got any heat I can borrow?’.
at hold, v.1
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
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