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[US] C. Himes Imabelle 30: Goldy cooked a C and M speedball over the flame.
at C and M, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 89: ‘God damn it. We can’t go in our bare asses.’ He raised the mattress of the couch and took out a big blued-steel Colt's .45.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 118: Baby-o. I got news for you.
at baby-o (n.) under baby, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 30: I got to feed my monkey first...He’s on my back.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 30: Goldy [...] cooked a C&M speedball over the flame. He groaned as he banged himself in the arm.
at bang, v.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 96: I’m going to bash that bastard’s brains to a raspberry pulp.
at bash, v.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 58: I’ll be able to give a bastard that much money just to keep from having to kill him.
at bastard, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 24: ‘You look beat,’ the counterman said.
at beat, adj.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 33: She’s gone off with the man who beat you out your money.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 96: [She] looked him straight in the eyes with her own glassy, speckled bedroom eyes.
at bedroom eyes, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 58: Mr Morgan who’s a big time financier from Los Angeles.
at big-time, adj.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 53: That was the way jokers in Harlem carried their money when they wanted to big-time.
at big time, v.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 40: He was big-mouthing to my girls about how he was going to make a fortune.
at bigmouth, v.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 32: It didn’t surprise Goldy that Jackson had been trimmed on The Blow.
at blow, the, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 29: Three teenage boysand a young girl inside were all blowing gage.
at blow, v.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 32: How else they gonna blow with their sting.
at blow, v.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 88: Jackson banged the bottle on the table and gave Goldy a look of blue violence.
at blue, adj.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 347: Man, I had twelve bones on twenty-seven.
at bone, n.4
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 113: Bright woman in a black coat and a red dress.
at bright, adj.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 33: If all that broad has got in her trunk is clothes, she has teamed up with that slim stud.
at broad, n.2
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 10: Out of a job. Broke and hungry.
at broke, adj.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 61: As soon as my woman buys herself a fur coat and I get myself some new clothes... we’ll be stone broke.
at stone broke, adj.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 28: You let the police take care of the law, Bruzz.
at bruz, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 5: ‘That’s right,’ Jackson said. ‘Fifteen hundred bucks’.
at buck, n.3
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 66: Hold on, bud, we’re not finished with you yet.
at bud, n.1
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 10: He’d be a bum, hungry, skinny, begging on the streets.
at bum, n.3
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 5: You give me fifteen C’s – right?
at C, n.2
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 10: Sleeping in doorways, drinking canned heat to keep warm.
at canned heat, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 60: The customers were the hepcats who lived by their wits.
at hep-cat, n.
[US] C. Himes Imabelle 29: The barbershop where the sharp cats got their nappy kinks straightened with a mixture of Vaseline and potash lye.
at cat, n.5
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