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[US] P. Earley Hot House 110: ‘If we can get just one staff member to take your side, we can get you out of here,’ Bowles promised, ‘but getting one of these fat-ass bastards to stick out his neck is going to be fucking difficult’.
at fat-ass, adj.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 248: This guy had blood squirting out of every hole in his body [...] he was cut from asshole to appetite.
at from asshole to appetite under asshole, n.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 8: ‘Fuck yes, he’ll cooperate, because if he don’t we’ll tell everyone he’s a baby-raper and they’ll kill his ass’ .
at baby-raper, n.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 32: There is a permanence about the penitentiary at Leavenworth that transcends the [...] whizbang architecture that makes prisons look like suburban shopping malls.
at whiz bang, adj.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 208: ‘Shit, you don’t have no evidence against me,’ Scott declared. ‘This is a bum beef. You can’t prove anything’.
at bum beef (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] P. Earley Hot House 282: Nearly all, they decided, could be trusted to follow the so-called ‘blue code,’ an unwritten pact between law enforcement officers that requires them to never say anything incriminating against a fellow officer.
at blue code (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 43: [T]wo dudes busted in on this guy in the cell next to mine and stuck him twenty-six times with shanks.
at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 37: The buildings in the prison yard include the ‘butcher shop’ (the prison hospital), [and] the ‘Hole’ (the disciplinary housing unit).
at butcher shop (n.) under butcher, n.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 181: ‘[T]he guys in high school who everyone picked on—you know, the buttheads who got a jock put on their head in gym class’.
at butthead (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 359: ‘I cracked her a good one,’ he explained, ‘because she had it coming’.
at crack, v.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 163: When they stopped at the cell of a former Lompoc prisoner, Watkins yelled, ‘Cuff up!’ ‘Fuck you!’ the Cuban replied. [...] When Watkins came to the thirteenth cell and gave the order ‘Cuff up,’ the detainee stepped forward and stuck out his wrists.
at cuff up (v.) under cuff, v.2
[US] P. Earley Hot House 190: ‘‘Prisons ruin your relationships with women because all of your close associates are males [...] ‘Women are dirty-legs, cunts, weaklings’.
at dirty leg (n.) under dirty, adj.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 370: I’m doing some running around and howdy-doody, I get my butt busted in some fucking tiny town in Arizona.
at howdy do, phr.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 262: ‘I think [they] expected me to quit or crawl into the woodwork and simply lay down’.
at lay down, v.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 56: ‘Every convict has three choices, but only three. He can fight [kill someone], he can hit the fence [escape], or he can fuck [submit]’ [sic] [ibid.] 93: ‘[I]f an inmate ain’t going over the fence or thumping somebody, then you [i.e. a prison officer] just leave him the fuck alone.’.
at go over the fence (v.) under fence, n.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 235: [B]y personally promising the Cubans that they would get better food, Slack had put his bosses—as they say in prison—’on front street’.
at put one’s business on front street (v.) under front street, n.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 354: [D]o you actually think I could change? [...] You think I’m going to be happy working at some fast-foot joint flipping burgers [...] ? Fuck, no.
at fuck no! (excl.) under fuck!, excl.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 354: ‘Have I robbed banks? Yeah, fuck yes. Am I an outlaw? Yeah, fuck yes’.
at fuck yes! (excl.) under fuck!, excl.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 320: ‘We should jump that prick in the parking lot and whip his ass.’ ‘Don’t worry. He’ll get his. It’s just a matter of time’.
at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 190: [To male prisoners] ‘Women are dirty-legs, cunts, weaklings. Part of it has to do with guys who get fucked in prison. Everyone calls them ‘girls’ or ‘punks’ .
at girl, n.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 331: ‘Hey, maybe I should get some juice [i.e. Thorazine],’ another guard joked. ‘It looks like good shit’.
at good shit, n.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 226: [of prison officers] ‘This is all a big game,’ Lacy said [...] ‘They try to beat us and we try to beat them. Sometimes the shitheads win and sometimes the good guys win’.
at good guy (n.) under good, adj.1
[US] P. Earley Hot House 302: ‘[Inmate Post] asked me to bring him a handcuff key,’ she said. ‘I couldn’t believe it. I told him, ‘Look, I’m not a gun moll. [...] I’m no Bonnie and Clyde’.
at gun moll, n.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 320: ‘These headhunters will ruin your career, just like they did Geouge because he slapped a Cuban’.
at head hunter, n.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 325: ‘All of the inmates were doing heavy, heavy time, and they all wanted out’.
at heavy, adj.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 109: ‘Looky here,’ Bowles said, pointing at the paper, ‘they got you down as an extreme escape risk!’.
at lookee here!, excl.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 253: ‘Tom catches what he catches. If he disrespects you, then you take it to him and deal with it’.
at take it to someone (v.) under take it, v.
[US] P. Earley Hot House 190: Post gave Thomas a gun and she robbed the johns herself. ‘We didn’t even bother renting a room because Glenda was jamming them right on the elevator.
at jam, v.2
[US] P. Earley Hot House 254: Bucklew needed a ‘jigger,’ someone to watch for the guard.
at jigger, n.9
[US] P. Earley Hot House 181: ‘[T]he guys in high school who everyone picked on—you know, the buttheads who got a jock put on their head in gym class’.
at jock, n.1
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