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The Dragon Can’t Dance choose

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[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 150: He just come up here to fuck around, to show off, because he ain’t have nobody else to show off his girls and his hat and his car to yet.
at fuck about, v.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 76: They looked like all-right fellers.
at all right, adj.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 224: What did they want him to do? End up like his father singing and playing the arse on Local Talent on Parade?
at play the arse under arse, n.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 104: It was one of those suggestive calypsos – filled with phallic symbolism [...] The story was about the very best axe man in the island.
at axe, n.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 103: They put Fisheye out the band, you know. Sponsors coming in; they don’t want no more bad Johns.
at bad john (n.) under bad, adj.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 227: Well, what’s so big about that?
at big, adj.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 166: ‘They [police] still behind?’ Fisheye asked gleefully [...] ‘No. The bitches gone.’.
at bitch, n.1
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 66: I just cooling out. You want a cigarette?
at cool out, v.2
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 118: Some of them now at the end of the day were taking time out to hug-up their women and cruise home with them.
at cruise, v.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 96: I say ‘good morning’, I say ‘good evening’. I say ‘Howde do’.
at howdy do, phr.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 75: Balliram was from San Juan. He liked to cuss and get on like Creole people.
at get on (at) (v.) under get on, v.1
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 93: ‘Have your head on,’ Philo said, suddenly quite grave.
at keep your hair on! (excl.) under keep one’s hair on, v.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 6: If you catching hell, dance, and the government don’t care, dance!
at catch hell (v.) under hell, n.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 38: I used to get licks for that too.
at licks, n.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 63: If you try to put me out this band, I going to mash up every pan.
at mash up (v.) under mash, v.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 31: You call that skufflin’ little fella a husband?
at skuffling, adj.
[WI] E. Lovelace Dragon Can’t Dance (1998) 121: Ash Wednesday morning is the wickedest day of the year on the Hill.
at wicked, adj.
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