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The Cruisers: A Star is Born choose

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[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 20: I would like to get a free ride to college [...] That’s a different trip from where LaShonda is coming from.
at where one is at, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 123: ‘There are so many kids who have something on the ball [...] a lot of them will do well’.
at something on the ball (n.) under ball, n.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 119: ]T]he man [...] asked if we were sure we had money for the cab fare. [...] We got to 31 East 32nd Street and told the guy in the lobby we had an appointment [...] He gave us the same fishy look the cabdriver did.
at fishy, adj.2
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 92: She was really an angel and she needed to get her glow on despite what bad things came her way.
at get a glow on (v.) under glow, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 61: [W]hen she ran they knew she had something serious going on.
at have it going (on) under going on, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 17: ‘You don’t want Caren to think you and Zander have something going on. She’ll scratch your eyes out’.
at have something going (on) (v.) under going on, phr.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 19: LaShonda Powell did [...] anything connected with clothing. If you could wear it, she could hook it up.
at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 98: Your little jive newspaper ain’t got nothing like that, man.
at jive, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 64: Sometimes they would show up ready and sometimes they would be jiving around.
at jive, v.1
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 86: Mom and me had stayed in Harlem and kept on keeping on.
at keep on keeping on (v.) under keep, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 59: I had been thinking of going over to Frederick Douglass Academy to show the Da Vinci girls’ track team some love.
at show love (v.) under love, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 128: I saw Mr. Lord look over [...] and throw down a halfhearted mean mug.
at mean mug (v.) under mean, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 39: [K]ids shouldn’t get messed around because they didn’t have a lot of money.
at messed (up), adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 73: Bobbi picked up on a lot of things that other people didn’t.
at pick up on (v.) under pick up, v.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 40: ‘LaShonda said she was just going to [...] walk away from the whole deal because she doesn’t want her business all out there in the street’.
at in the street under street, the, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 62: I really didn’t think he was wrapped too tight and he was built like he could knock you out with one punch.
at not wrapped too tight (adj.) under tight, adj.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 39: Bobbi was definitely on time thinking kids shouldn’t get messed around because they didn’t have a lot of money, but I knew how things rolled in the real world.
at on time (adj.) under time, n.
[US] W.D. Myers Cruisers: A Star is Born 91: Yo! She [the school principal] called us the Cruisers.
at yo!, excl.
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