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[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 245: Leaning back in his chair like a smart-aleck boy in a boring class.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 53: Jessica was no longer George’s around-the-way girl, hidden in a stash house.
at around-the-way girl, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 247: Collecting debts [...] required threats and the occasional beat-down.
at beat-down, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 285: If you walk away from a confrontation you’ll get treated like a bitch & the next thing you know somebody’s going to be trying to make you their bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 29: Cesar blasted out of a nearby pool hall.
at blast, v.2
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 247: His mother [...] worked part-time for a bookie.
at bookie, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 219: All guests were booted, including Octavio.
at boot, v.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 173: I smell just like my mother when she’s smoking cigarettes and booter.
at booter, n.3
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 343: In the box Cesar couldn’t intimidate, protect, or save anyone.
at box, n.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 69: Countless times, Cesar and Rocco broke night on the street.
at break night (v.) under break, v.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 46: The bricks were the size of the small boxes of soap from the vending machines in a Laundromat [...] Bricks of heroin were diluted and packaged for retail sale.
at brick, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 128: ‘I bugged out for a minute. Then I got happy.’.
at bug out, v.2
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 47: If there’s no movement [...] you know something’s up and you bum rush. Bum rush.
at bumrush, v.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 164: Coco knew that people got busy during [prison] visits.
at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 301: Your father’s full of ca-ca.
at caca, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 397: Before long, everyone was putting in their two cents.
at put in one’s two cents’ (worth) (v.) under two cents’ worth, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 34: She preferred tight pants or short-shorts [...] The pants in style were called chewing gums because they stretched.
at chewing gums, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 344: He stopped the drugs cold turkey.
at cold turkey, adv.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 37: Coco, just coming up, found a veteran guide.
at come up, v.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 35: ‘We began to conversate,’ Coco recalled.
at conversate, v.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 49: If the supply had recently undergone a dry spell, less cut was added [...] If George was at the mill, he added the cut himself.
at cut, n.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 303: The boys started kicking it to me you know trying to talk to me. One boy was like what’s up cutie.
at cutie, n.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 128: The police would have seen him naked. Roxanne had been dissed.
at dis, v.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 215: Pearl’s illness made her feel even more discombobulated than usual.
at discombobulated, adj.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 41: Talent had a female relative who worked in the heroin trade. George decided to switch over from selling coke to selling dope.
at dope, n.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 247: There are a lot of dummies up here [...] In the city, they ain’t playing that.
at dummy, n.1
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 285: This isn’t the feds. This is the jungle.
at feds, n.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 131: She conjured up aches and pains for the cute prison doctor in the hope that she’d get felt up.
at feel up, v.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 293: ‘The way they say it – “Coco, you, that girl is fly, your daughter is fly”.’.
at fly, adj.
[US] A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 399: But the quiet wasn’t calm: it was as though the whole neighborhood was fronting.
at front, v.2
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