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[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 13: Tyrone picked up a beer and took a chug.
at chug-a-lug, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 109: Crawford aight for a white man.
at a-ight, phr.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 134: She got ya by the short hairs, huh?
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 26: Except for tourists who were lost or turned around, white people rarely ventured on foot to that end of Auburn Avenue.
at turned around, adj.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 23: When blacks kept coming, white folks hauled tail out of town.
at haul ass, v.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 10: Afterwards [i.e. after sex] she’d light a cigarette, blow smoke rings [...] and come up with an excuse to get an attitude.
at cop an attitude (v.) under attitude, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 37: A short, bald, bow-spined man with banjo eyes.
at banjo eyes, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 25: He liked to hear Tyrone brag about the young women he had bedded.
at bed, v.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 61: Maybe he would go to Beaufort one day and find that big-leg Geechie gal.
at big leg (adj.) under big, adj.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 17: A bunch of long-haired bikers – a motorcycle gang! – with flags pasted across their sleeveless leather jackets.
at biker, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 27: I’m po as a broke-dick dog.
at broke-dick (adj.) under broke, adj.1
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 24: Self-absorbed buppies, puffed-up over fancy houses and big-shot careers.
at buppie, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 12: The poor white trash in Cabbagetown despised chi-chi yuppies a tad less than they hated niggers.
at cabbage town (n.) under cabbage, n.2
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 34: Rather than wait on his chintzy landlord, Barlowe used his own funds.
at chintzy, adj.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 103: Barlowe was cockstrong. He had knocked a man cold one day.
at cockstrong (adj.) under cock, n.3
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 129: Barlowe knews those Coke-bottle hips anywhere.
at coke frame, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 109: Sheeeiiiittt! I ain’t takin that cracker nowhere.
at cracker, n.3
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 78: They used to pay twenny dollars a head to turn in crazies to the loony farm.
at crazy, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 93: There was sometimes work to be had at the state mental hospital [...] most of the patients at the crazy house had either fled, were fleeing, or were plotting escape.
at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 106: Mr. Crawford promised that when he sells he’ll give me first dibs.
at first dibs (n.) under dib, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 11: She didn’t give a squirrel’s butt about people; she didn’t know diddly, and couldn’t care less.
at diddly, n.1
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 93: He [...] trudged five miles to the bus station and caught the gray dog to Atlanta.
at dog, the, n.1
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 89: [...] even if it meant doing nothing but staying tore-down pissy-drunk.
at tore down, adj.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 27: I dusted im off, good. Gave im a country stompin.
at dust (off) (v.) under dust, v.1
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 64: When the dusting was done, Ricky leaned over and coughed up blood.
at dusting, n.1
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 91: White girls, off limits. No eyeballin, greetin, embracin [...] or otherwise touchin the fruit.
at eyeballing, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 25: He liked to soak up stories about wild adventures in the fast lane.
at fast lane, n.
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 133: [of a relationship] Nell said good-bye, and Barlowe left. It was the first time she fired him.
at fire, v.2
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 33: Tyrone tilted slightly to one side and slapped him five.
at slap five (v.) under five, n.2
[US] N. McCall Them (2008) 135: He checked into a fleabag motel.
at fleabag, adj.
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