1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 30: ‘I live over on Prospect Street—the heart of honkytown’.at honkietown (n.) under honkie, n.
1974 N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 43: To call myself an American was to be labeled a Tom or house nigger.at house nigger, n.
1974 N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 16: [She] feels his johnson getting hard against her thigh.at johnson, n.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 N. Heard Cold Fire Burning 11: [S]pecializing in ‘touch-off’ and ‘stick-up’ tactics, i.e., liberating legal tender.at stick-up, n.