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Tambourines to Glory choose

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[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Tom cat! Billy goat! You big brown bar stud!
at billy-goat, n.1
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Stacked, solid – neat, all-reet – boss, baby!
at boss, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory Prologue: I am not the me you see here – tall, handsome, brownskin.
at brownskin, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I iii: Baby, you’re built – no false brassieres.
at built, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II i: Want a ride in my red Caddy?
at Caddy, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Chocolate daddy with coconut eyes!
at chocolate, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory Prologue: I speak all tongues [...] baby, daddy-o.
at daddy-o, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II i: I’ll dig you later.
at dig you (later) under dig, v.3
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vii: I carried a pistol, called it Dog.
at dog, n.5
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I iii: Okey dokey, Big Eye.
at okey-doke!, excl.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory Prologue: I put on drag sometimes.
at drag, n.1
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vii: I drank likker [...] It made me fool-headed.
at foolhead (n.) under fool, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I iii: You know, forty means fine, O.K., great.
at forty, adj.2
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: A little blues won’t hurt [...] you got a pretty gitfiddle, boy.
at gitfiddle, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II v: Religion’s got no business being made into a gyp game.
at gyp, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II i: Mama was the hell-raisingest woman in Charlotte society.
at hell-raising (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I i: My grandpa was a jackleg preacher.
at jackleg, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II i: All right, keep your hips on your shoulders, old chick. I’ve had enough yap-yapping.
at keep one’s hips on one’s shoulders (v.) under keep, v.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II i: A toast – to Miss Bitch.
at Miss, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory Ii i: Keep your diaper on, Junior!
at keep your pants on! (excl.) under pants, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II ii: It takes a right smart time to get down from Mount Vernon.
at right, adv.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I i: My grandpa was a jackleg preacher, so I can rock a church as good as anybody.
at rock, v.3
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory II ii: All good-looking women like to ride on rubber.
at rubber, n.2
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory Prologue: Sure, I have my troubles, get shot up once in a while, ambushed, assassinated.
at shot up (adj.) under shot, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: laura: Table stakes? buddy.: Say, fifty simoleons.
at simoleon, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Here have a snizzle. (He hands C.J. a can of beer).
at snizzle, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I iii: Only squares drink ginger ale with scotch.
at square, n.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Where the cool cats strum / Stashed in a cozy nook.
at stash, v.1
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Where the cool cats strum / Stashed in a cozy nook.
at stashed, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory I vi: Did you ever dig the ‘New York Blues’? I guess not, down in the sticks where you’ve been.
at sticks, n.2
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