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The Crazy Kill choose

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[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 79: It’s gonna be like you say [...] If I cop a plea I don’t get but thirty days?
at cop a plea, v.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 8: Anoint The Love Apples With Father Cupid’s Original adam ointment.
at love apples (n.) under apples, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 13: Do you just have to switch your ass at every man that passes by?
at ass, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 12: He keeps putting himself in my face no matter how hard I [...] show him I ain’t interested.
at get in someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 128: I ain’t that crazy, baby.
at baby, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 86: He had Dulcy batting for him.
at bat for (v.) under bat, v.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 139: Let’s get these beauties to the hospital.
at beauty, n.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 55: He just come in to gape at the chippies and beef about the cooking.
at beef, v.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 11: That bitch! She’d better mind her own business.
at bitch, n.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 126: ‘That tune gives me the willies.’ ‘I like it [...] It’s just as blue as I feel.’.
at blue, adj.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 79: Iron Jaw was supposed to start yelling bloody murder.
at blue murder, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 14: Doing a skit about a colored brother coming home drunk.
at brother, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 132: Turn me loose so I can dress [...] You can’t take me to jail buck naked.
at buck-naked (adj.) under buck, n.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 52: I want you women to keep buttoned up about this.
at buttoned up, adj.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 132: You want to buzz your mouthpiece before they get here?
at buzz, v.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 78: I ain’t seen Johnny’s big Cad in nearmost two days.
at Cad, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 118: It’s four o’clock [...] Nothing for it now but to call it a day.
at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 55: Everybody’s just peeping at their hole cards now.
at peep someone’s/one’s hole card (v.) under hole card, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 118: Johnny Perry carries his weight in this town.
at carry one’s own weight (v.) under carry, v.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 48: I just figured he was out chasing.
at chase, v.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 20: If you want to put up with this chicken-season preacher’s lying, you can.
at chicken-preacher (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 13: Johnny would have started chivving on him right there.
at chiv, v.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 91: Then he had to clip the chicken in the head to save it for evidence.
at clip, v.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 124: I always kept it hidden [...] and then about two weeks ago it come up missing.
at come up, v.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 97: New York State doesn’t grant liquor licenses to ex-cons.
at ex-con, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 60: Friends who had come to bury big Joe [...] but were being cooked instead.
at cook, v.1
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 73: I could [...] make him vomit up enough evidence to give him a year in the cooler.
at cooler, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 31: Sergeant Brody asked them routine questions in a passionless copper’s voice.
at copper, n.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 90: Don’t give me that cornfed Southern bull.
at cornfed, adj.
[US] C. Himes Crazy Kill 11: Mamie took Dulcy into the crapper and locked the door.
at crapper, n.1
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