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[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 90: Edward T. Pagent the narcotic agent / Has built up an air-tight case.
at airtight, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 2: An argument over a five and dime card game called Tonk.
at five and dime, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 97: These neo-colonialist and jive-ass imperialists.
at jive-ass, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 118: That seems a bit ass-backwards, as I see it.
at ass-backwards under ass, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 3: Pittsburgh had swollen balls for Miss Amber.
at have swollen balls for (v.) under balls, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 68: Like all good-looking new fish [...] he’d been [...] quickly noticed by the booty-bandits.
at booty bandit, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 90: ‘I can’t beat it,’ he said, as he counted Bud’s bread. ‘It’s a fact that we might as well face.’.
at beat, v.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 22: Cigarettes were the medium of exchange [...] Dudes with big smokes could easily buy food and booze, pills, pot, drugs.
at big, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 6: You gon’ let a bitch come ’tween two men?
at bitch, n.1
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 177: Ain’t no tellin’ how many-a these young bloods me and my Simbas [...] done kept from bein’ turned into fags.
at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 53: Sam Hacker says he’s sorry he blew up at ya.
at blow up, v.1
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 92: He slammed a bone down on the board.
at bone, n.1
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 180: The prisoners who behind his back called him a bugger-eater.
at booger, n.1
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 89: The numbers were in, there was no games of Skin, / And boostin’ was in the deep freeze.
at boosting, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 5: There’s somethin’ you can do, brother-man….
at brotherman (n.) under brother, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 50: He looked [...] in bug-eyed wonder at the sticks they carried.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 215: ‘He may bug out, but he may bug out on you first.’ [...] ‘Ryan’ll bug out, and Dr. Wiseman can send his ass to the nuthouse.’.
at bug out, v.2
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 77: Ol’ Bru goes a little off once in a while [...] He’s done been down to th’ bughouse [...] maybe four times.
at bughouse, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 163: ‘One-eyed muthafucka goin’s bugs’ was the consensus.
at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 89: Dum-Dum and Cabbagehead Dick.
at cabbage-headed, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 86: [as cit. 1964].
at hep-cat, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 121: That’s a crock [...] a stinking, full-to-the-brim crock of unburied cat shit.
at catshit (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 188: Marx [...] has obviously influenced your ten-cent judgment of me.
at two-cent, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 212: They were the chumps, the doofuses, who only got chump change in life.
at chump change, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 108: That’s real chickenshit, Simpson.
at chickenshit, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 86: [as cit. a.1964].
at choked up (tight) (adj.) under choked, adj.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 87: But you’ll need a bale cause the stuff’s wholesale / It’s the only connection, that’s sure.
at connection, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 85: His contract on Junior Blake seemed to have garnered him even more adherents.
at contract, n.
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 88: And they both rolled up their sleeves. / While cookin’ a taste over a small blaze.
at cook, v.1
[US] N. Heard House of Slammers 82: I wish he’d at least waited till I copped.
at cop, v.
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