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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me choose

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[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 224: Mary had a little lamb for which she cared no particle, / it stuck its nose under Mary’s clothes and smelled of Mary’s article.
at article, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 114: If I wasn’t so sick I’d get up and put my feet in your mothefucken ass.
at put one’s foot in/up someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 114: About this time came along this mudkickin’ whore, / an international bitch that knowed the score.
at international bitch, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 205: ‘Don’t give up hope when you blow off your dope,’ / this was the thing I said. ‘I’ll give you some of mine any time.’.
at blow, v.1
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 115: He’d work his whores in snow and rain / to shoot heroin, morphine, cocaine in his burned-out veins.
at burned out, adj.1
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 72: I’ve prayed in despair to be sent to the chair / or bumped off at the end of a rope.
at chair, the, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 205: ‘Is this a drunk or is this a skunk?’ asked Small Crack Nadine with a spike in her thigh.
at crack, n.3
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 224: Now Mary was a brazen cuss and she didn’t give a damn.
at cuss, n.1
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 174: The Baboon ran the joint, but it really Mr. Gorilla’s den.
at den, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 115: Even a cold-blooded dope fiend need a second chance. / Turn him on and he’ll talk some shit, / suck a pussy and give a ditch dick a fit. [Ibid.] 148: There was Little Miss Vi from the Windy City of Chi, / she had a dick [clitoris] so long she had to be circumcised.
at dick, n.6
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 205: It was late one day and I was on my way / to dig my partner Dan.
at dig, v.3
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 115: Even a cold-blooded dope fiend need a second chance. / Turn him on and he’ll talk some shit, / suck a pussy and give a ditch dick a fit.
at ditch, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 114: About this time came along this mudkickin’ whore, / an international bitch that knowed the score.
at mud-kicking, adj.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 201: Lookit here, Jack, I’m not flyin’ no more kites / and I’m not sayin’ this to bring on no fights.
at fly a kite (v.) under kite, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 114–5: ‘You’re young and fine and you want to score, / from now on, jack, I’m gonna be your whore.’ / Now she named him Ping Pong Joe and put him on his feet, / and he was the sharpest junkie, Jack, to ever hit the streets.
at ping-pong, n.2
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 114: You know I’m sick/ and ’fore I’d suck your pussy, bitch, I’d just downright quit.
at quit, v.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 120: Now after you’re up the river for a couple of months or more, / you receive a twelve-page letter from this no-good whore.
at up the river under river, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 120: Days would drift and linger for a couple of months or more / and I’d receive another scratch from this no-good whore.
at scratch, n.3
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 119–20: They’ll bring you cigarettes and candy to the jail / with a whole line of shit; ‘Daddy, I’m gonna get you out on bail.’.
at line of shit (n.) under shit, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 201: I might introduce you to a friend of mine / and maybe he’ll loan you a thin, thin dime.
at thin dime (n.) under thin, adj.2
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 206: ’Cause, Jack, I want a shot of two-in-one [cocaine and morphine].
at two in one (n.) under two, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 133: Now Pretty Pill was a good con man, he shoulda have never been broke / but the trouble with the Frenchman, he was up against the coke.
at up against, phr.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 133: The trouble with the Frenchman, he was up against the coke.
at against, prep.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 137: Now boys, whilst you out there slippin’ and slidin’ be sure to take your time / and anchor some a your lays in some First State Dime.
at slipping and sliding, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 139: I went to her body with my pride in my hands.
at pride (and joy), n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 50: Over the next table the whore give me a smile, / said it looked like I hadn’t had any in quite a while.
at any, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 97: Don’t front me with that shit because it’s not anywhere, / and this is Joe the Grinder and damn that square.
at anywhere, adj.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 98: He said goodbye to Jody and his dogassed whore.
at dog-assed, adj.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 108: I hope the sun quit shinin’ on you and your life be in a terrible wreck, / hope you fall through the loops a your own ass and break your mothefucken neck.
at fall through one’s own asshole (v.) under asshole, n.
[US] B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 107: This is Pimping Sam, the world’s wonder, / long-dick buck-bender, all-night grinder, womb-finder, / sheet-shaker, baby-maker, and money-taker.
at baby-maker (n.) under baby, n.
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