1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 53: All alone in a room upstairs [...] cuddling a big-assed bottle of champagne.at big-ass, adj.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 45: When Fanny landed her first blow on Mom, I got into it and started whaling away at Fanny.at whale away, v.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 25: With my regular white customers, it was a cinch. They had wives and kids to go home to. When they came to see me it was wham, bang, they gave me the money and were gone. [Ibid.] 27: ‘I thought I was giving you a chance,’ she spouted at me. ‘But you turned out to be a girl of bad character.’ Wham, bang, four months she handed me.at wham bam!, excl.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 146: Man, that bitch had boosted everything I had looked at during the whole shopping store. And all of it was stashed in a big pair of bloomers.at boost, v.2
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 40: Then the house broke up. There’s nothing like an audience at the Apollo.at break up, v.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 92: A lot of creeps have been dogging Orson Welles ever since.at dog, v.1
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 102: Jimmy started letting me lie down with him [...] it was during this time I got hooked.at lay down, v.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 29: But any kind of freakish felings are better than no feelings at all.at freakish, adj.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 53: Things were just too hoity-toity.at hoity-toity, adj.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 44: Jimmy’s got the best panatella you ever smoked in your life.at panatella, n.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 92: He’s a [...] talented cat. But more than that, he’s fine people.at good people (n.) under people, n.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 55: I’d have to travel five hundred to six hundred miles on a hot or cold raggedy-ass Blue Goose bus.at raggedy-ass ride (n.) under raggedy, adj.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1973) 156: [Lena Horne] insisted on taking me out with her and bought me lunch, and we had a wonderful schmooze about the old days in Hollywood.at schmooze, n.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 43: Some cat would be cussing out some broad a blue streak.at blue streak (n.) under streak, n.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1973) 24: Mom [...] swore on a stack of Bibles I was eighteen.at swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high) (v.) under swear, v.
1956 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 95: He [...] practically made me feel like a Tom for not sitting down with him.at Uncle Tom, n.