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The Blackstone Rangers choose

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[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 133: ‘[H]eavy police patrols—white cops who come down here to protect the white johns who comes down here to turn tricks’.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 37: ‘Come on, Rufus,’ he said. ‘Let’s go.’ ‘Big motherfucker, always bossin up on people,’ Rufus said.
at boss, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 185: ‘I joined the U.S.M.C. in January 1960. Half-starved, no I.D., suffering with the “bull-head claps”’.
at bullhead clap, n.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 126: ‘I just hope you ain’t figured out a cute way to fat yourself up with money without bothering to cut in the rest of us Stones’.
at cut in, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 162: As he bent down by the [police car] window, his whole manner changed. The arrogance, the heavy-lidded cool gaze [...] were gone. He was talking politely, helpfully, just like any nice kid. It was something to watch. He knew how to deal.
at deal, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 172: ‘I wonder sometimes if you’re dealing with a full deck.’ [...] ‘Oh shut up,’ I said. ‘You’re a screwball, too.’.
at play with a full deck (v.) under deck, n.4
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 67: ‘Well, like he’s been shot at least eight times [...] Easily that many’.
at easily, adv.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 126: ‘I just hope you ain’t figured out a cute way to fat yourself up with money without bothering to cut in the rest of us Stones’.
at fat (oneself) up (v.) under fat, adj.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 67: ‘[S]ome little flyspeck clothing store, they don’t bother with nothing like that. Extortion is determined according to the volume of weekly business the store does’.
at flyspeck, adj.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 73: ‘If the hit is inside, then another Stone, he’ll act as a lure. He’ll go inside and he’ll find him and he’ll say, Come on out, man, like I got a reefer or some real nice wine’.
at hit, n.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 3: ‘This man can relieve a lot of pressure. He wants to talk to Jeff or Gene. So hook him up’.
at hook up (with), v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 20: Joel said: ‘They seen us, man.’ ‘I know.’ ‘Take it light.’ ‘I’m fine’.
at take it light (v.) under take it, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 46: ‘It’s them little bits,’ Cliff said. I did not understand. ‘Kids—these little things, thirteen, fourteen years old. They the hit men’.
at little bit (n.) under little, adj.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 126: ‘Sister, what you gonna do? Sell your body? Make twenty dollars, but maybe get syphilis or VD or run into some freak who’ll mess you all up?’.
at mess up, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 25: In any deal, any deal at all, the city had to get its cut and the local congressman took care he got his pinch too.
at pinch, n.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 156: ‘Man, like, I thought it was my time. I thought it was over for me. [...] Man, that was a scary set’ .
at set, n.2
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 133: ‘[I]f the cops came across this stuff, it would be of no use to them. The stuff on them would still be somewhere else. You share?’ ‘Yes.’ .
at share, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 121: ‘Joel, he don’t like white people for shit’.
at for shit (adv.) under shit, n.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 154: ‘They gave you shit?’ ‘They don’t know enough about what’s happening to even give you shit,’ I said .
at give someone shit under shit, n.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 124: ‘Man, don’t you know, them hotel people, they’re trying to shoot us both through the grease’.
at shoot through the grease (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 43: Them cops, man [...] hear this slangin coming out of our mouths and man, there they is, sitting scared inside some squadrille, clutching a shotgun’.
at squadrol, n.
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