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In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience choose

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[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 252: I don’t enjoy talking to people that I don’t believe are my peers. But I do enjoy just chopping it up, kicking it around, and seeing what other people seem to think.
at chop it up (v.) under chop, v.1
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 124: Ole So-and-So cooned out the other night and he went to Tulsa.
at coon out (v.) under coon, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 421: They just give hand-jigs or they’ll give blowjobs....They’ll...give each other hand-jigs.
at hand jig, n.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 419: ‘Him and this other boy hogged this Mexican that wasn’t a punk.’...‘What happened to the guy that got hogged?’.
at hog, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 163: And I’m sitting up here jawjacking with this other tramp.
at jaw-jack, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 165: But this bit here, man, aw, it’s a dickhead.
at dickhead, n.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 225: He wanted to go to bed with the girl and was big-shotting.
at big shot, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 88: Me and a friend was going to go up through Oklahoma bipping—scallybipping (burglarizing a house when they saw the wife out back hanging clothes). [Ibid.] 128: You go in there and ransack their house and get their money,... [the burglars are] known as ‘bippers,’ ‘scallybippers.’.
at bipe, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 181: He’s a bulldozer [...] He wants to thow his weight around.
at bulldoser, n.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 169: I can’t ever scream about being bum-rapped.
at bum rap, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 187: A ‘bust-out’ mob [...] You’re working with tops or bust-out craps.
at bust-out, adj.2
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 316: I was busted (somebody recognised him) up there on it.
at busted, adj.1
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 324: Everyone was ‘Old Butt-Fucker’ to him.
at buttfucker, n.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 182: You very seldom catch an outside fag enter here. Most of what you have in here are known as candy-bar punks.
at candy-bar punk (n.) under candy, n.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 192: A dirty leg is just for a guy that [...] wants a $5 to $10 piece of ass.
at dirty leg (n.) under dirty, adj.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 434: Your old man [...] ought to kick the dog shit out of you.
at dogshit, n.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 289: But, he said, he just couldn’t fade it (handle it), looking at that head.
at fade, v.1
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 233: I can’t jack with [Dilaudid] and not get hooked.
at jack with, v.
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 112: He sat with the police car radio and jiggered (acted as lookout) while I made joints.
at jigger, v.5
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 97: If I didn’t have my habit I swear to God I’d bust my kicks (have an orgasm) right here.
at bust one’s kicks off (v.) under kick, n.5
[US] in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 99: Stuff I legged (boosted by hiding it between her legs under her skirt).
at leg, v.1
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