1971 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
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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
1971 R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 67: ‘Well, like he’s been shot at least eight times [...] Easily that many’.at easily, adv.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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
1971 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.
1971 R.T. Sale Blackstone Rangers 121: ‘Joel, he don’t like white people for shit’.at for shit (adv.) under shit, n.
1971 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.
1971 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.
1971 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.