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A Rage in Harlem choose

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[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem [ebook] East of Seventh Avenue to the Harlem River is called The Valley. Tenements thick with teeming life spread in dismal squalor. Rats and cockroaches compete with the mangy dogs and cats for the man-gnawed bones.
at Valley, the , n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 31: [as 1957].
at C and M, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 119: [as 1957].
at baby-o (n.) under baby, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 31: [as 1957].
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 116: Black gal make a freight train jump de track but a yaller gal make a preacher Ball de Jack.
at ball the jack, v.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 96: [as 1957].
at bash, v.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 59: I’ll be able to get the bastards that much money just to keep from having to kill him.
at bastard, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 34: She’s gone off with the man who beat you out of your money.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 48: [as 1957].
at big-time, adj.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 54: [as 1957].
at big time, v.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 42: [as 1957].
at bigmouth, v.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 125: Night thieves and bindle stiffs and blind beggars and all flotsam that floated on the edges.
at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 93: It is a truck rutted street of violence and danger, known in the underworld as the Bucket-of-Blood.
at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 32: [as 1957].
at blow, the, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 33: [as 1957].
at blow, v.1
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 38: Man, I had twelve bones on two twenty-seven.
at bone, n.4
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 34: [as 1957].
at broad, n.2
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 12: [as 1957].
at broke, adj.1
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 61: [as 1957].
at stone broke, adj.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 28: [as 1957].
at bruz, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 7: [as 1957].
at buck, n.3
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 66: [as 1957].
at bud, n.1
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 125: I don’t believe a God-damned word of that bullshit.
at bullshit, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 11: [as 1957].
at bum, n.3
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 7: [as 1957].
at C, n.2
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 11: [as 1957].
at canned heat, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 112: Muggers with scarred faces cased the lone pedestrians.
at case, v.1
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 61: [as 1957].
at hep-cat, n.
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 29: The barber shop where the sharp cats got their kinks straightened with a mixture of Vaseline and potash lye.
at cat, n.5
[US] C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 19: [as 1957].
at chummy, adj.
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