1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 6: He was over fifty years old, but upon hearing the price for laying up all night he appeared to drop ten years in age.at lay back, v.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 104: She pointed at the bedroom where his things were strewn, shredded and slit. ‘Talk about that the next time you feel biggety, you sonofabitch!’.at biggity, adj.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 43: She was light, bright, and damn near white in attitude as well as skin color.at bright, adj.1
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 142: ‘I gotta split, man . . . check you out tomorrow and give you a whole rundown, okay?’.at check out, v.2
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 148: ‘I would ask you to check yourself.’ ‘Why? Why would you ask me to do that?’ ‘Because you don’t know me,’ he answered.at check oneself (v.) under check, v.
1972 N. Heard To Reach a Dream n.p.: scorn the can / learn flimflam / down the man / never be a Sam.at down, v.3
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 125: ‘Ordinarily it’s a mark of distinction to get your man back after he’s been fruiting around and throwing it in your face’.at fruit, v.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 105: ‘You know it don’t go like that. You fucked up now you pay up’.at go, v.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 77: ‘I ain’t makin’ it with you no more. I got somethin’ else goin’ and you ain’t in the picture’.at have something going (on) (v.) under going on, phr.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 73: She was high yaller, with a slight mustache and slanted eyes which gave her a sly Japanese look.at high yellow, n.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 55: There were some petty jive-time pimps in the jail who made it known to all who’d listen that they were the best things that ever happened to women.at jivetime (adj.) under jive, adj.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 206: He took her hand and placed it on the front of his pants. ‘See what I mean?’ he said. ‘Right on, brother!’ ‘Left off, sister!’.at left off!, excl.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 42: He never failed to bounce back after getting a good nut [...] when he could shoot his problems and fears into the depths of a woman’s body.at nut, n.3
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 38: If he could get that kind of job he’d take off the money with no strain.at take off, v.1
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 137: ‘She’s always outgoing. Top that off with a slight high and you’ve got what you see tonight’.at top off, v.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 107: ‘[D]’you think I’m crazy enough to take a chance on goin’ t’sleep here after what I just put on yo’ ass?’.at put on, v.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 33: ‘[T]ell me now—yes or no. But it don’t matter ‘cause I’m gonna have ya tonight. Be a lot easier for both of us if ya just go along with the program, dig!’.at with the program (adj.) under program, n.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 33: ‘I don’t like to be gorilla an’ rough it off—but then [...] I hope ya don’t doubt I’ll use this shiv if ya force me’.at rough up, v.
1972 N. Heard To Reach a Dream n.p.: Scorn the can / learn flimflam / down the man / never be a Sam.at sam, n.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 39: He was going to be the baddest thing in town because he was going to have a woman who was able to shit gold bricks at his command.at shit gold bricks (v.) under shit, v.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 55: [T]he times that Mozelle had spread her thighs to him and said, ‘Baby, put a little sugar in my bowl’.at sugar, n.3
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 137: Using the ploy of most teasers she said, ‘I can’t leave my girlfriend, honey. We came together and we’ve got to leave together’.at teaser, n.1
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 74: ‘[T]he cocaine is here—gimme a little two and two’.at two-and-two (n.) under two, adj.
1972 N.C. Heard To Reach a Dream 101: ‘When I was young, dumb, and full of come.’ Hollywood laughed loudly.at young, dumb, and full of come under young, adj.