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The Algiers Motel Incident choose

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[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 87: I used to mess around with Herbert [...] then we sort of drifted apart, and I got to be friends with Fred.
at mess about, v.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 208: You pulled that B. and E.
at b and e, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 66: Your pimp-ass son, we’re glad he’s dead.
at -ass, sfx
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 305: All of which [...] came to a blah ending.
at blah, adj.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 94: It was a raid on a blind pig that touched off the Detroit riot of 1967. [Ibid.] 95: He wanted one of our men to [...] find out where it was, get a drink and bust the pig.
at blind pig, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 111: No, your honour, this is what they call it. They usually refer to it either as a fuck or a brown.
at brown, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 343: They [...] stripped them buck-naked before all them peoples up there.
at buck-naked (adj.) under buck, n.1
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 67: They did a [sic] awful bum job on him.
at bum, adj.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 117: You talk chummy-chummy to the bartender, and then you turn around and slap him on the back with a summons.
at chummy, adv.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 139: Only the best police officers make the cruisers [...] The cruiser, that’s the heavy car.
at cruiser, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 373: I’ve never really cussed them out like I’ve heard some fellows cuss them out.
at cuss out (v.) under cuss, v.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 243: It’s getting hot in here. Why don’t you cut the air conditioner on?
at cut, v.4
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 212: It’s more colored people that’s got criminal records than white people, and white people do just as much dirt as the colored people do.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 207: A man throwed a sandwich on the floor [...] and say, ‘Git it, Dirt’.
at dirt, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 183: I knew boxing was a dirty racket. I used to tell him, ‘It’s the dirtiest racket in the world.’ It’s not what you know in boxing, it’s who you know.
at dirty, adj.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 22: I can move pretty daggone good if I have to.
at doggone, adv.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 305: Knocked over a dope pad and had stolen drugs and jewelry.
at dope pad (n.) under dope, n.1
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 333: Let them start kicking those young kids in the fanny.
at fanny, n.1
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 332: Putting words in the police’s mouth – that weren’t nothing but a fishy trial.
at fishy, adj.2
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 143: Them fucks took my tape recorder.
at fuck, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 107: The Murphy game [...] is a big crime in Detroit.
at Murphy (Game), the, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 107: I know a lovely woman, name of Mrs. Murphy, who’s dyin’ to give it to you. Just pay me.
at give it to, v.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 203: ‘He’s always googy-googy,’ full of pranks and teasing.
at googy-googy, adj.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 333: The average gray, you know for your own self, is brought up with the prejudice instinct within him. He don’t want no black boy living over here.
at gray, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 307: They were trying to hang these murders on me.
at hang something on (v.) under hang, v.2
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 121: He went down to the corner shop and bought a lot of potato chips and junk like that.
at junk, n.1
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 369: My car [...] had bird mess and all types of stuff all over it.
at mess, n.2
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 388: She figured me as just an easy Murphy.
at Murphy, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 127: Maybe when you talk to him you’ll think he’s on the muscle [....] sort of defensive.
at on the muscle under muscle, n.
[US] J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 83: His parents’ small home that burst with house plants and whatnottery.
at whatnottery (n.) under what-not, n.
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