1995 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
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 220: Suburban kids [...] the boys clean-shaven and beer-muscle cocky .at beer muscle (n.) under beer, n.
1995 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.
1995 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.
1995 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.
1995 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.
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 2: I counterclockwised the rheostat. The lamps dimmed.at counterclockwise, v.
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 49: [A] couple of plainclothes detectives [...] cross-eyed drunk and armed to the teeth.at cross-eyed, adv.
1995 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
1995 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
1995 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.
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 11: ‘[T]hat woman I got now, that church woman? She’s a keeper’.at keeper, n.
1995 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.
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 127: [M]agazines whose covers almost exclusively featured women with extralarge lungs.at lung, n.
1995 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.
1995 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
1995 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
1995 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.
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 70: ‘[Y]ou’re being a man, trying to be right for your family’.at right, adj.
1995 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
1995 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.
1995 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
1995 G. Pelecanos Down by the River 89: Eddie turned to LaDuke. ‘Take care of yourself, Stretch’.at stretch, n.