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[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 109: What you got for a bellyache, Junior?
at belly-ache, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 94: I do eveything ass backwards, don’t I?
at ass-backwards under ass, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 22: So I propositioned her if she’d kick back his money and take me on, I’d let her go.
at kick back, v.1
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 95: Don’t talk so vulgarly [...] You’re always trying to be hard-boiled.
at hard-boiled, adj.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 7: His pale blue eyes looked buck wild. He made a terrifying picture, cursing the empty air.
at buck-wild, adj.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 119: I just want to see the show, buddy boy.
at buddy boy (n.) under buddy, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 149: The shoeshine boy gave him the silent treament reserved for cheapskates.
at cheapskate, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 97: He was a chicken-season preacher [...] He only preached when the chickens were fat.
at chicken-preacher (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 186: I must have pitched a wingding that night.
at wing-ding, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 104: It might have been something to do with the numbers, a religious wingding.
at wing-ding, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 11: The Negro looked too scared to pull a gag.
at pull a gag (v.) under gag, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 9: I ought to gut-shoot you, you thieving son of a bitch.
at gut-shoot (v.) under gut, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 40: Bastard son of a bitch all to hell and gone.
at to hell and gone under hell, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 69: Brock got the idea that she did a little hustling on the side.
at hustling, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 162: I lit out and ran for my life.
at light out (v.) under light, v.1
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 95: You come in here and catch me looking like the morning after and expect me to be beautiful and demure.
at morning after (the night before) (n.) under morning, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 184: Better put a reader out for Walker . . . No, for the automat murder.
at reader, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 102: What would this district attorney do with that, riding the department as he is?
at ride, v.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 57: I sapped him with my sap.
at sap, n.3
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 57: I sapped him with my sap.
at sap, v.2
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 147: ‘What kind of sport?’ [...] ‘The sport.’ ‘Oh, you mean women.’.
at sport, n.
[US] C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 108: She’s new on the stem. Too tony for a Time Square hustler.
at tony, adj.
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