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All the Right Stuff choose

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[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 179: ‘[W]hen I was dibbing and dabbing and got caught up, I couldn’t get no help’.
at dib and dab, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 123: And when a young man like you comes along, somebody with something on the cap [etc].
at something on the cap (adj.) under cap, n.6
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 172: ‘[A]ll they want to do is drink and gamble and carry on like they’re heathens or something’.
at carry on, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 117: I could dig that, her not wanting to deal with my father’s life.
at deal, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 123: [T]hey start self-medicating—smoking dip and snorting girl.
at dip, n.7
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 3: My dad [...] was actually working. At least when I saw him he wasn’t doping himself up.
at dope up (v.) under dope, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 74: The guy who had thrown up gave the old man [...] the finger and left the room.
at finger, n.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 111: My cousin was looking sharp. [...] My man was GQing all the way.
at g.q., adj.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 158: Yo, Paul, are you going to try to—you know—get with her?’ ‘No, I’m supposed to be mentoring her,’ I said. ‘Not getting into her pants’.
at get with, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 123: [S]moking dip and snorting gir—to make themselves feel better or at least [...] get through the dayl.
at girl, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 62: Old people like to do that to young people. They set you up to say something and then jump all over it.
at jump all over (v.) under jump, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 86: It was hot, and 125th Street was jumping.
at jumping, adj.2
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 193: [A]n argument between some guys on a street-cleaning truck and a brother who didn’t want them throwing dirt on his machine.
at machine, n.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 50: ‘[T]he people who came to America back in the day messed over the people already living here’.
at mess over (v.) under mess, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 193: ‘We’ll give you a ticket for interfering with our job,’ the street cleaner said. Too much.
at too much!, excl.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 3: My father [...] hadn’t been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.
at get next to (v.) under next (to), adj.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 33: ‘[Y]ou kept pulling up and popping from the outside [...] I liked the way you looked’.
at pop, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 54: Everybody gave the dude his propers and nobody moved upon him too quick.
at props, n.2
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 35: ‘I’m stronger than your little punky butt!’.
at punky, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 119: I was going home and ran up on Sly.
at run up on (v.) under run, v.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 32: ‘I thought your game was already pretty tight?’.
at tight, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers All the Right Stuff 53: ‘You were shooting with two and three guys hanging on your arm.’ ‘Yo, man, I was in the zone!’.
at in a/the zone (adj.) under zone, n.
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