Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

The Cruisers choose

Quotation Text

[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 88: ‘Come on, punk!’ It was Alvin McCraney pulling off his shirt. ‘Bring it! Bring it!’.
at bring it on! (excl.) under bring, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 91: ‘We need to get some brothers together and just get busy with the Sons of the Confederacy and anybody else who needs to get his head whipped’.
at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 92: ‘Martin Luther King, Jr., wasn’t about fighting.’ ‘No, but he had some righteous brothers in the street who were ready to get down if they had to’.
at get down, v.2
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 10: ‘So what do you have on your head?’ I asked her. ‘Mickey Mouse ears,’ she said. ‘You like them?’ ‘Yo, I’m falling out,’ I said.
at fall out, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 94: ‘Suppose we start agreeing with what they’re saying but put it up front so they can’t get around it?’.
at up front, adv.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 39: When people are facedown with a bloody lip [...] they will get the idea that they need to put some giddyap in their listen up.
at giddyap, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 96: ‘And suppose it doesn’t work and they just keep on with their ha-ha attitude?’.
at ha-ha, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 81: Them bears used to look at Robby McRabbit, and when they did they were mean mugging him from the tip of his pointy ears to his nasty little toes.
at mean mug (v.) under mean, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 20: ‘We have to make a move on that dude [...] he needs a serious beat down’.
at make a move (on) (v.) under move, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 20: He’s talking about freedom of speech and stuff but what he’s really dealing with is race.
at and stuff under stuff, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 29: I put the Chinese food and the fried chicken on a plate and zapped it in the microwave.
at zap, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers 43: In a way I knew that Billy was winning the set because all I could think of was throwing hands. That had to be a loss.
at set, n.2
no more results