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[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 58: You ever see Madame Thomasina with a hot on for whitey.
at Aunt Thomasina, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 183: If’n you hit me again, white folks, I’ll blow you away.
at blow (someone) away, v.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 108: Come on, let’s beat it [...] Time’s wasting.
at beat it, v.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 152: Wonder the big boss ain’t beating up his chops about that ain’t the right way and crime don’t pay.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 98: I want you two men to keep on this riot bit that the lieutenant assigned you to.
at bit, n.1
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 90: His eyes had a slight Mongolian slant, giving his face a bitsa look, a bit of African, a bit of Nordic, a bit of Oriental.
at bitza, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 188: ‘What happened?’ Coffin Ed asked. ‘Just that fat blacky showing off all that blood,’ Grave Digger said.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 98: It might not bother you two tough customers [...] but it’s a black eye for me.
at black eye, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 140: Three more blades glinted in the night.
at blade, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 155: Next to it [...] was a steam bath establishment calling itself the Arabian Nights Baths. ‘That a fish bowl?’.
at fish-bowl, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 112: Did the boys downtown make him?
at boys, the, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 85: By the time the sergeant got to the tenants in the last room he was well browned off.
at browned off, adj.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 40: Well, buddy-o, you can’t overlook the fact the main ain’t got no pants.
at buddy-o (n.) under buddy, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 36: They let the fez-headed man get out of sight while they shot the bull.
at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 156: When Dutch Schultz was rubbed out, every sport in Harlem who had two white quarters to rub together opened a policy house.
at red cent, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 122: You sniffing at the wrong tuft, Slick, baby [...] She like chalk.
at chalk, n.3
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 131: Passing [...] the arty, chichi section of antique shops, French restaurants [and] expensive pederasts on Third Avenue.
at chichi, adj.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 147: She was chivving his ass like beating time.
at chiv, v.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 121: Ain’t gonna get none either. She don’t burn no coal.
at burn coal (v.) under coal, n.1
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 52: One conk-haired joker [...] said offensively, ‘What mother-raping fight?’.
at conked, adj.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 98: When it turns out wrong [...] the commissioner cracks down and the press gets on my ass.
at crack down (v.) under crack, v.1
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 29: He had lived all his life in a black slum, had attended jim-crowed schools, and [...] had got the customary jim-crow job in a factory.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 145: ‘She turned him every way but loose,’ one of the black boys said in awe. ‘Cut him two-way side and flat,’ the other corroborated.
at cut every way but loose (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 35: No riots, no murders, only a few cars stolen [...] and a few domestic cuttings.
at cutting, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 156: But the Syndicate took all of the hard out of the dick, and soon Fats was earning more from his sausage than his numbers.
at take the hard out of the dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 39: We’re to dig what we can without leaving our friend.
at dig, v.3
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 179: Take your hands off me, you mother-raping dip! [...] I’m on to that pickpocket shit!
at dip, n.1
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 112: Did the boys downtown make him?
at downtown, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 74: His father was just a figurehead and a fall guy in case someone had to take a rap.
at fall guy, n.
[US] C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 156: But Fats didn’t have any white women — he liked boys.
at Fats, n.
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