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The Addict in the Street choose

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[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 177: When you pull a stunt like that they get mad.
at pull a..., v.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 122: The spics aren’t worth a cent.
at not worth a cent, phr.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 83: It was an out-and-out robbery, grand larceny.
at out-and-out, adj.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 78: I was using stuff but I wasn’t hooked; it was still half-ass.
at half-assed, adv.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 57: I thought it was a bunch of baloney.
at baloney, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 57: I had six arrests under my belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 134: They brought me the priest and he said blah blah blah blah, the last words.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 27: A bomb is about as big as a Pall Mall and as fat as a Pall Mall.
at bomb, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 61: I used to go boosting also. This was stealing meats out of supermarkets.
at boost, v.2
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 124: The diddleybops would come from 4th Street.
at diddy-bop, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 124: Just because of that diddleybop walk.
at diddy-bop, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 124: They would walk in doubles or triples, walking tough, diddleybopping.
at diddy-bop, v.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 154: My husband didn’t butt in too much.
at butt in, v.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 103: I would put in my two cents and help the teacher.
at put in one’s two cents’ (worth) (v.) under two cents’ worth, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 140: I started smoking opium in Miami, Florida, in 1933 [...] It was a whole process. There had to be somebody preparing it, and he was called a chef.
at chef, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 225: That’s why a drug addict tries to do something non-violent, like [...] passing a rubber check.
at rubber cheque, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 180: I find that breaking doors is much easier than mugging Chinks.
at Chink, n.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 80: I still got a small habit, which we call a chippie.
at chippie, n.5
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 58: I kicked cold – well, not cold, I had dolophine pills.
at cold, adv.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 37: There is one substitute for dope you can take to help you kick without kicking cold turkey.
at cold turkey, adv.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 28: When you cook the stuff [...] You measure out the heroin into the water, light a match, and cook it up.
at cook up, v.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 28: When you cook the stuff [...] You measure out the heroin into the water, light a match, and cook it up.
at cook, v.1
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 68: Now if I blew my cool – if I got up and said I was going and they knew what was happening – they couldn’t stop me.
at blow one’s cool (v.) under cool, n.2
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 27: Like if you see a junkie and you know him, you just ask him where can I cop some pot?
at cop, v.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 227: And not in a crummy dump like I live in.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 27: Just cuff it up in my hand without nobody seeing me and keep on smoking it, just like if I’m smoking a cigarette.
at cuff, v.4
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 93: They should leave the darn addict alone. Don’t get the addict, he’s helpless. Get the pusher.
at darn, adj.
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 123: We were Black Diamond Debs.
at deb, n.2
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 181: We could deck up two-three hundred in an evening’s timer.
at deck up (v.) under deck, n.4
[US] Larner & Tefferteller Addict in the Street (1966) 58: I had a doctor right up here on 14th Street – he was giving out dollies and goofballs to everyone.
at dollies, n.1
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