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[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 8: ‘[N]ow we gotta do this dance, even after I told you over the radio box here that Grimes ain’t in’.
at song and dance, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 121: [A] man would do anything, when it came down to it, for the green. Especially a raggedy-ass motherfucker like this.
at ragged-ass, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 101: ‘Have a good night, man.’ Randolph raised his brow. ‘Bet’.
at bet!, excl.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 150: Constantine had a drag off his cigarette, followed that with a long hotbox.
at hot box, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 43: ‘I’ve looked at this closely, and it’s as near to a sure thing as you can get. But it’s never all cake’ .
at cake, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 173: ‘The show’s really going to cook, sweetheart. I mean it’s really going to cook’.
at cook, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 47: He dropped into the driver’s side of the bench, moved the seat back, and cooked the ignition.
at cook, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 65: [C]ooked on Schlitz and paint fumes [...] got his head tore off by a crane.
at cooked, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 121: ‘I want you to doom the white man. Kill him’.
at doom (out), v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 115: ‘All right, man,’ Randolph said. ‘You all straight?’ ‘Weiner fixed me,’ Rego said.
at fix, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 87: The waitress gave the rest of the table an eye-sweep. ‘Anybody else?’ [. . . .]. ‘I’m good,’ Randolph said, cupping his hand over his glass of soda water.
at good, adj.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 9: ‘The old man, he’s a hard dick, he comes by every coupla years for this money he says Grimes owes him’.
at hard dick (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 163: ‘What else you holdin’?’ Valdez said. ‘My nine,’ Gorman said.
at hold, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 56: ‘You gonna hook my ladies up today, hear what I’m sayin’? Some evening shoes, man’.
at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 65: [I]t was in that pool hall’s bathroom where Gorman first huffed glue.
at huff, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 193: He had rubbed his face [...] before deciding to pour some glue into the brown bag and have a huff.
at huff, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 64: A standard knockover [...] you go in with a hard look and a drawn gun, maybe rap the barrel to someone’s head, let them feel the weight, and then you book.
at knock-over, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 65: Gorman and his boys wore baggy work pants [...] Banlon pullovers, black high-top Chucks, and three-button black leathers.
at leather, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 149: Randolph [...] looked over at Constantine. ‘You gonna be all right, lover?’ ‘I’ll be all right’.
at lover, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 123: Young men dressed in hooded sweatshirts and low-rider jeans.
at lowrider, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 7: ‘[H]e’s been trying to nail this brunette, a real piece of ass by the way’.
at nail, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 13: Bruce [Springsteen] was on the cover of both Time and Newsweek on the rack. Mal and Gary [...] teased Constantine about ‘waxing off’ on Bruce’s photo.
at whack off, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 118: Now Jackson had brought out his pick—a black plastic comb with a black plastic fist clenched on the end of it—and he was raking the comb up the front of his modified Afro.
at pick, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 158: Gorman reached into his shirt pocket, withdrew the snowseal. He carefully unwrapped it [and] put his nose very close to the mound of crystal meth.
at snow seal (n.) under snow, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 18: [H]e mostly hung out at the marina bars [...] where he became friendly with the wait staff and tenders.
at tender, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shoedog 188: ‘You in the lounge, man? I can hear that tired-ass funk’.
at tired-ass (adj.) under tired, adj.
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