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[US] D. Gregory Nigger 107: We used to tear around Fort Lee together in his car. We balled it up pretty good.
at ball it (up) (v.) under ball, v.2
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 98: Didn't even have to tip the usher [...] ‘Thanks, baby, I’ll take care of you next time’.
at take care of, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 97: I had my equalizer: I could always go out on the track and crush the world.
at crush, v.2
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 74: I’ll bring you home, you running fool, and you can tell us what the victory was all about.
at fool, n.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 47: I'd been out hustling all day, shining shoes, selling newspapers, and I had googobs of money in my pocket.
at goo-gobs, n.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger (1965) 77: While I watched, the boys on the football team, who had played against those hoods, been down in the nitty gritty dirt with them, stepped out with their dates.
at nitty-gritty, adj.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 75: She didn't want to dance to the blues, the gut bucket, the funky songs. Her crowd just came out on the floor for the sweet ballads.
at gutbucket, n.1
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 132: I told her that everything would be all right, the weather would break soon, the night club would hit.
at hit, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 55: Before they could get going, I'd knock it out first, fast, knock out those jokes so they wouldn't have time to set and climb all over me.
at knock (it) out, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 113: I jump every light, but nothing happens.
at jump, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 113: It’s supposed to be dollar night at the drive-in movie, which leaves me four dollars to grandstand with. Plenty for hot dogs. But a bottle of Scotch can wipe me out.
at wipe out, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 169: There were 1,200 men in that room, and [...] I’d never get to the back door if this thing rips. If anything happens I’m dead.
at rip, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 136: I scuffled up enough money that week to have the Underwoods’ phone turned back on.
at scuffle, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 121: There are red lights around the room, faded murals on the walls, and entertainment on the weekend: an M.C., a four-piece band, a shake dancer, some amateur talent.
at shake dancer (n.) under shake, v.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 34: Whop. Momma spun across the front room, back toward the kitchen, like a drunk. Whop. Big Pres had the belt out again.
at whop!, excl.
[US] D. Gregory Nigger 209: [T]hey’d [i.e. prison inmates] fight like dogs over their women—the pretty, younger homosexuals.
at woman, n.
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