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[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 117: Both of them turned cold and all the way hard.
at all the way, adv.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 116: He didn’t want to go down on something as mundane as grand theft. A charge like that was a bitch charge, and it bought you no respect inside the walls.
at behind the walls (adv.) under behind, prep.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 116: He didn’t want to go down on something as mundane as grand theft. A charge like that was a bitch charge, and it bought you no respect inside the walls.
at bitch, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 10: Let me get one of those cigarettes from you, black.
at black, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 239: White man gonna try to keep a black man down from birth. But Bobo, he couldn’t do it to this black man.
at bobo, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 141: You my bottom baby. You know this, right?
at bottom woman (n.) under bottom, n.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 255: It was nothing. Just, you know, pissin’-contest stuff between men.
at pissing contest, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 9: He got a woman he cribs with on the side?
at crib, v.4
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 82: Tucker shot right on Alaska, then another right up 13th [...] where he cut a left onto Iris.
at cut, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 141: Some white boy just went in. I axed him for a date, but he said he already had a girl.
at date, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 13: Potter, Little, and White bought a kilo of marijuana [...] dimed out half of it back at their place, and delivered the dimes to their runners.
at dime, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 233: One of her interchangeable male friends, hustlers and junkheads themselves, always hanging around the house.
at junkhead (n.) under junk, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 94: You black guys do love the onion.
at onion, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 110: Do I re-up with the yellow Pages or do I go back heavy on those full-page ads in the Washington Post?
at re-up, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 13: Potter, Little, and White bought a kilo of marijuana [...] dimed out half of it back at their place, and delivered the dimes to their runners.
at runner, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 233: His mother was welfare dependent and a shooter of heroin and cocaine.
at shooter, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 6: What about that snatch we did with that boy’s dog over on Crittenden?
at snatch, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 146: Wilson produced a switchblade knife from his coat pocket [...] ‘Picked this up over in Italy [...] They make the prettiest sticks.’.
at stick, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 141: Schoolgirl’s inside. Trickin’ some old Al Roker-lookin’ sucker.
at trick, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 233: He was allegedly the triggerman in four murders by the time he was seventeen years old.
at trigger, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 3: I was waxin’ her from behind.
at wax, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay [ebook] ‘He was one of my beef babies [...] I must have fathered three babies like that’.
at beef baby (n.) under beef, n.2
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