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[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 121: They lit the real thing and, free in the country, blew up a storm, laughing, talking, talking silly, feeling great.
at blow up a storm, v.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 252: The place was out-and-out gay. The ‘truck-drivers’ were here [...] And the soft-spoken, sweet voiced young men with roving eyes.
at out-and-out, adj.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph 204: Louie big-shot for the beer, smacking a half-dollar down.
at big shot, v.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 390: He said to his friend at the bar, ‘Have respect for all the gay bitches!’ They laughed.
at bitch, n.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 304: He was quite a big guy, tall, a dishwater blond, but Italian. Blondie or Whitey you’d call him if you didn’t know his name.
at blondie, n.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 119: If he wanted a jolt he’d sure step into a side street [...] and blow a good stick.
at blow, v.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 303: He was going with his broad, Maria [...] She’s good-looking for a change, not a tramp.
at broad, n.2
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 197: They hung around listening to the speakers in Bughouse Square.
at bughouse square, n.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 131: Only he and Extra Black Johnson could cabaret — have their morning and evening fix and then take some whenever they felt like taking off and really getting charged up. [Ibid.] 133: Mee, man, I has money and I had that old Horse every day. Man, we used to cabaret in there!
at cabaret, v.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 134: If you’re a good capper and cap it yourself and sell part of it [...] You can keep your habit up.
at cap, v.6
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 119: An ounce makes close to five hundred [...] When I fill these caps I can make a lot.
at cap, n.4
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 110: They were talking very chummy-chummy.
at chummy, adv.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 211: They wised me up. They cued me in, you know.
at clue (someone) in (v.) under clue, v.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 169: They grab their cookers. The cookers are metal caps off wine bottles, with the cork lining taken out.
at cooker, n.2
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 132: Look who done flown the coop! Look who done broke out of jail, you-all!
at fly the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph 335: Who the crap asked you to come over here?
at crap, the, phr.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 207: They were Pachucos. It used to be an assorted crew — Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans [...] we all gathered together in one band.
at crew, n.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 266: ‘Good dago red!’ she announced.
at dago red (n.) under dago, adj.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph 122: I don’t know if they’re dealing now.
at deal, v.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 304: He was quite a big guy, tall, a dishwater blond.
at dishwater blond(e) (n.) under dish, n.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 130: She done dozed off good.
at dozed, adj.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 118: The good stuff, in its round cylinders of cigarettes, he stacked in one pile: dynamites.
at dynamite, n.2
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 300: ‘Hello, eight ball,’ Louie said to Dusty. ‘Hi, ugly!’ Dusty said. They called each other nigger and dago and spick; but that was just among themselves.
at eightball, n.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph 128: Them emeffing guards is bringing it in in fountain pens.
at emeff, adj.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 161: Fear is what rules them [...] Of an overdose. You fluke out. You die.
at fluke out (v.) under fluke, v.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 168: ‘Man,’ Extra Black Johnson said to everybody, ‘let’s make tracks for mah shootin’ gallery.’ ‘No, your crib’s too far,’ Elijah said.
at shooting gallery, n.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 163: If some hypo finds out that another hypo is a stool pigeon they give him [...] a hot shot. If you take it you’re gone.
at gone, adj.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 382: Man, he’s the gonest!
at gone, adj.1
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 129: One of them guards [...] was a tier-to-tier pedlar. Sure ’nough. That were when I hooked up with him. I’m the contact man on the outside now.
at hook up (with), v.
[US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 163: They’re an awfully tight group, the hypos. If some hypo finds out that another hypo is a stool pigeon they give him [...] a hot shot. If you take it you’re gone.
at hypo, n.2
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