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The Big Gold Dream choose

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[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 46: I don’t want to see you take the rap for a no-good man who runs away leaving you holding the bag.
at hold the bag, v.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 91: Reverend Tree, who is always bellyaching about us living in sin up here in Harlem.
at bellyache, v.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 137: It began like this, boss.
at boss, n.2
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 62: Rufus drove up / mugger braced him in car / pulled him / put knife on throat.
at brace, v.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 105: Just give me thirty dollars [...] It ain’t going to break you.
at break, v.1
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 137: You look like a bright boy.
at bright boy (n.) under bright, adj.3
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 137: You got a cigarette, chief?
at chief, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 53: She could afford to keep that Dummy in chips.
at chip, n.2
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 87: I’ll fix him [...] Around here chippy-chasing at this hour of the morning.
at chippie-chasing (n.) under chippie, n.1
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 59: Why did Rufus get croaked after he had already completed his part of the deal.
at croaked, adj.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 75: She sold food and drinks and she cut the blackjack game.
at cut, v.6
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 22: ‘The deal’s off,’ he choked in a furious voice.
at deal, n.1
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 58: Third degree methods were useful, but they couldn’t beat the truth out of everybody.
at third degree, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 25: By the time they had cleaned the pot, everybody felt lovey-dovey.
at lovey-dovey, adj.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 104: I’ve been down so long that down don’t worry me.
at down, adv.3
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 43: The sergeant looked again at the colored detectives. ‘Do you believe that fairy tale?’.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 140: I ain’t no fighter. And I has to have some kind of way to protect myself. So I just carrys me a little Mickey Finn.
at mickey finn, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 59: A punk who had shown up an hour earlier flashing a roll for the benefit of the chorus girls.
at flash a roll (v.) under flash, v.1
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 59: Blowing gage and talking underneath their clothes like as if they were hustlers.
at blow gage (v.) under gage, n.2
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 56: ‘He Georgiaed me [...] He sent me to Georgia.’ Sugar couldn’t help but hear her. He knew she meant that a man she had taken to her room had shown her some money, but afterwards had refused to pay her.
at georgia, v.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 93: I happened to remember that Rufus was on the H.
at H, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 27: I know it’s halvers, man. If I find it, you’ll get your half, all right.
at halvers, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 65: She’s just a cook and a liquor-head to boot.
at -head, sfx
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 85: They saw the girl come from the alleyway [...] and start highballing in the direction of 114th Street.
at highball, v.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 58: If they missed three nights straight running, it was their little hip pockets, as they say in Harlem, which meant they were in trouble.
at it’s your little hip pocket under hip, n.3
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 135: He figured every little bit he did for the police would help him if he got into a jam.
at jam, n.1
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream (1969) 117: Dummy say [...] that she was a junky; that she sniffed cocaine.
at junkie, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 139: I figgered she was giving him the money to keep, so I kissed it goodby.
at kiss goodbye (v.) under kiss, v.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream (1969) 65: She’s just a cook and a liquor-head to boot, so she doesn’t have much money.
at liquorhead, n.
[US] C. Himes Big Gold Dream 137: She liked to drink, but she weren’t no lush.
at lush, n.1
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