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[US] W.D. Myers Game 122: ‘They scared of me copping, because if I cop, I can send them away forever’.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 180: ‘He’s going over to the refs, asking for fouls,’ Fletch said. House saw their coach talking [...] copping a plea.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 86: Everybody on the team knew he was setting stuff up for Tomas, but we didn’t kick it around.
at kick around, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 34: We went downtown to their raggedy-butt gym.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 131: [H]e took money from shorties and did some boosting down on 1-2-5.
at boosting, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 121: ‘If I take the deal they [i.e. the authorities] want to hand down, I can burn both of them [i.e. his co-defendants].
at burn, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 57: I didn’t want to bust a grin on my man.
at bust, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Game 28: With high school ball you usually have one dude who can bust it and three or four dudes who can play some.
at bust it (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Game 199: Sky went coast to coast and slammed.
at coast-to-coast, adv.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 161: We didn’t dig the press soon enough.
at dig, v.3
[US] W.D. Myers Game 127: We played Tech and ate them up. No contest.
at eat up, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 68: [O]ne of those schools that never had a real big-time player but always had enough going on to mess with you if you showed weak.
at have it going (on) under going on, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 23: I’d probably have to learn to drive, but I knew I could hook that up.
at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Game 15: I loved ball and knew I was going to bust it, whatever joint he [the coach] was running.
at joint, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 4: [W]hen my man Ruffy’s brother was arrested right after Christmas, she got really messed around.
at messed (up), adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 180: The mo changed big-time and their coach called a time-out.
at mo, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Game 23: [M]y game was money. All I needed was to show proper and we would come in either first or second in our division.
at money, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 177: They [i.e. a school] must have had money’s mama, because they came in really fine blue-and-gray buses.
at money’s mammy (n.) under money, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 35: I didn’t mess with him too tough because the dude acted like he might have been a little off.
at off, adv.4
[US] W.D. Myers Game 102: ‘We lose this game, you might lose your season.’ ‘Yo, man, you sound like you putting it on me,’ I said.
at put on, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 58: ‘I ain’t putting myself out there in the Man’s game’.
at out there, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 192: But so many of the brothers on the corner didn’t have a play [...] Even when they angled into their best gangster lean, it was just a pose.
at play, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 97: Warrick [a high school] was not supposed to be a powerhouse.
at powerhouse (n.) under power, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 19: They said he could rock it back in the day, but he didn’t run his mouth about it.
at rock, v.3
[US] W.D. Myers Game 215: I thought that he [a basketball teammate] would get better chances than me, more attention, but I had learned something more about the set.
at set, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers Game 126: [H]is boxing out making up for his not being able to really sky too tough.
at sky, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 90: ‘But show me one Irish girl in this school who’s really smoking!’.
at smoking, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 120: I was surprised that Tony was back on the street. ‘They set a trial date [...] And Tony’s out on bail’.
at street, the, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 66: [A] kick-butt general who [...] had to deal with Iago and all the other suckies around him.
at suck-up, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Game 193: [I]t was too late to cop the W and too late for the big comeback.
at W, n.3
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