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A Cold Fire Burning choose

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[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 79: The wine was on the table; I grabbed it and turned it up, taking large, greedy chugs.
at chug-a-lug, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 104: ‘Put up in advance. We don’t play on ass around here’.
at play on ass under ass, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 19: I waited till she had come and come and come, then I eased out my piece of flab and lay beside her pretending that I’d had a natural ball.
at ball, n.4
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 112: ‘We shot at a coupla cops one night.’ [...] ‘Them cats was hot on our case, man’.
at on someone’s case under case, n.1
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 42: ‘All you black bastards think you’re smart since ya got that nigger in the mayor’s office. But let me clue ya [...] it ain’t gonna do ya no goddamn good’.
at clue, v.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 16: A slow number came on and I rose to my full stature as we began to slow-drag.
at drag, n.1
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 135: I was caught between the desire to brag, to let them know that I had ‘gotten over,’ and the deep sacredness [...] of my relationship to Terri.
at get over, v.2
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 143: ‘Man, it’s time to split. C’mon Ahmad.’ [...] Ahmad rose. ‘Let’s hit it’.
at hit it, v.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 30: ‘I live over on Prospect Street—the heart of honkytown’.
at honkietown (n.) under honkie, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 43: To call myself an American was to be labeled a Tom or house nigger.
at house nigger, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 16: [She] feels his johnson getting hard against her thigh.
at johnson, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 50: [T]aking another pull on the bottle.
at pull, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 17: [H]er breathing told me that she was feeling groovy, too. Terri was into a thing of her own, like ready .
at ready, adj.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 16: [of a white woman] This girl had paid some dues. She had gotten soul from somewhere, even if she didn’t wear it as naturally as a sister could.
at soul, n.2
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 25: I had me some white pussy any time I wanted it. Not many spooks could say that.
at spook, n.
[US] N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 11: [S]pecializing in ‘touch-off’ and ‘stick-up’ tactics, i.e., liberating legal tender.
at stick-up, n.
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