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[US] R. Woodley Dealer 5: Late one afternoon the telephone rang. ‘You know who this is? I can’t talk problems, not over the ding-a-ling.
at ding-a-ling, n.2
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 60: ‘Scag will kill you. Pills are dangerous, they fuck you up internally [...] Fuck you around! Amphetamines give you gallstones and shit. Acid can leave you a RE-tard, man’.
at fuck about, v.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 134: Things on his dresser top. [...] Wallet, handkerchief, Afro comb.
at afro, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 126: ‘There’s angel dust—that’s parsley dipped in acid. That’s a high’.
at angel dust, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 3: Applejacks – dusters – tilted forward over their foreheads.
at applejack, n.2
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 149: ‘[S]hit, if I couldn’t be good, I wouldn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t do it half-ass’.
at half-assed, adv.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 69: Coke will only take so much whackin. It may be good coke, but it’s whacked to the bone by the time you get a twenty-dollar spoon.
at to the bone (adv.) under bone, n.1
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 142: He nodded at an Eldorado stopped for a light. ‘See that car? That bubbletop? White tires? Fuckin nigger Cadillac’.
at bubble-top (n.) under bubble, n.1
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 114: ‘You see, you can take a snort of coke and you think in your mind that you’re set up well for the game. Until somebody hits you, catches you correct, really busts your buns’.
at bust someone’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 117: I want to put a phone in [an automobile], but the telephone company will put you through a change now to do it.
at put through changes (v.) under changes, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 62: It could be that he’s into it [narcotics use] a little heavy. [...] Could be that he’s gettin a little chippie on again.
at chippie, n.5
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 62: [Y]ou can’t expect an hour-and-a-half high on a two-and-two commercial.
at commercial, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 82: [T]hey are bustin people left and right. You got to be super-careful, super-cool.
at cool, adj.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 25: ‘I’d like to see [my brother] be a nine-to-fiver, you know. [...] I would not like to see him get croaked’.
at croaked, adj.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 41: I buy lactose and dextrose [...] and I usually use them together as cut. [...] Then you got to sift them. You sift the cut to get the pure sugar out of it, the sweetness out.
at cut, n.1
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 28: He had a pistol on him when he took the fall, you know, he was dirty.
at dirty, adj.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 117: ‘Jimmy always aspired to be a hustler,’ a friend said. ‘Even when he was nine-to-fiving’.
at nine-to-five, v.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 8: ‘Jim you fucker I’m gonna shoot you,’ the man said, smiling. ‘Fuck you gonna shoot me. What for?’ ‘Man, you shorted me on that brick’.
at fuck, the, phr.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 127: ‘Hey, have you ever heard of the Murphy game? You know what the Murphy is on the street? Somebody walks up and flashes a badge, and he is not the police, and he takes you off. That’s called the Murphy’.
at Murphy (Game), the, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 61: ‘Best high in the world for me is coke and reefer. [...] Or better still, good coke and good hashy’.
at hashy, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 57: Actually I like it better with a little cut in it, gives it a more pleasant hit.
at hit, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 86: ‘I can’t press too hard because Slick owes him some money. That’s this cat’s holdout, cause the cat feels that if he pays me, Slick won’t pay him’.
at hold-out, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 30: ‘Doug’ owed $2,000; ‘Stan’ was in for $15,100; ‘Dave’ had brought his balance down from $14,625 to $1,876.
at in, adv.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 144: ‘That motherfucker Jimmy ain’t nothin. He’s got a fuckin attitude that he thinks he’s Mister It’.
at it, n.1
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 109: I’d just rather not talk about it [i.e. the death of his mother]. It jammed me up. I’m still jammed because of that.
at jammed, adj.2
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 100: ‘I was born and raised in New York. I was a jitterbug, you know, a gang fighter’.
at jitterbug, n.
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 108: Then one time we really had to put a job on a cop in the subway.
at do a job on (v.) under job, n.2
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 10: [of cocaine][C]ocaine is sold cut in $10 or $20 capsules [...] teaspoons and tablespoons (tablespoons are ‘quarters’); ‘pieces,’ which are four tablespoons, or about an ounce; parts of ‘keys’ (kilograms, 2.2 pounds) from eighths, quarters, halves, all the way to whole keys of pure cocaine.
at key, n.2
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 10: Slick and me started on reefer, and I went to coke and he went to scag. Scag is where the most money is. But me, I laid with the other two.
at lay with (v.) under lay, v.4
[US] R. Woodley Dealer 26: What the fuck are you gonna learn in twenty years? [...] You got to get your lumps and bumps’.
at lumps and bumps (n.) under lump, n.
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