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Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go choose

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[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 98: I dropped my lit butt into the top of the beer can and heard it hiss as it hit the backwash.
at backwash (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 220: Suburban kids [...] the boys clean-shaven and beer-muscle cocky .
at beer muscle (n.) under beer, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 17: ‘How about that kid, the one that got it two nights ago [...] . I guess that was a drug thing, too.’ ‘Bet it’ .
at bet!, excl.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 204: ‘That little redneck’s gonna come back in here, and if you let him, he’s gonna bitch-slap your ass all around’.
at bitch slap, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 182: I could see Ramon doing some kind of bull-jive flying sidekick toward Darnell.
at bull-jive, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 117: ‘That guy is an actor. Sure, it gets on my nerves. I got to listen to him run his cocksucker all day long’.
at cocksucker, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 2: I counterclockwised the rheostat. The lamps dimmed.
at counterclockwise, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 49: [A] couple of plainclothes detectives [...] cross-eyed drunk and armed to the teeth.
at cross-eyed, adv.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 73: Lyla was moving her head, digging on the music and the night.
at dig on (v.) under dig, v.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 26: [of a murder] ‘The tire tracks indicate that the doers drove some kind of off-road vehicle’.
at doer, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 81: ‘You look at ‘em, weight lifters, gym rats, with the sideburns and the pompadours, they all look like young Elvises’.
at gym rat, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 11: ‘[T]hat woman I got now, that church woman? She’s a keeper’.
at keeper, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 65: That boy just wants to be large [...] Always wantin’ to be like some movie star, ride around in a limousine.
at large, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 127: [M]agazines whose covers almost exclusively featured women with extralarge lungs.
at lung, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 106: ‘He’s a little guy who always needs to be the big magilla’.
at big magilla (n.) under megilla, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 70: Barry’s younger brother said, ‘Maybe he could find Roger some onion [...] ‘Cause Roger ain’t had none in a long time’.
at onion, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 121: [She pushed] her huge breasts together until there was a tight tunnel formed between them [...] I straddled her chest and gave her the pearl necklace she was looking for.
at pearl necklace (n.) under pearl, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 208: ‘I just like to rattle that redneck’s cage a little bit, that’s all’.
at rattle one’s cage (v.) under rattle, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 70: ‘[Y]ou’re being a man, trying to be right for your family’.
at right, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 116: [A] red-bearded potbellied man loudly heckled the players, with most of his choice obscenities reserved for [Baltimore Orioles pitcher] Sid Hernandez, who that night was truly getting rocked.
at rock, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 12: The Post grouped the violent deaths of D.C.’s underclass into a subhead called ‘Around the Region’; local journalists sarcastically dubbed this daily feature ‘the Roundup’.
at round-up, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 2: A stretch in Lorton had straightened him all the way out, though no one mistook his clean lifestyle for the lifestyle of a pushover.
at straighten, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Down by the River 89: Eddie turned to LaDuke. ‘Take care of yourself, Stretch’.
at stretch, n.
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