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The Night Gardener choose

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[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 65: [...] trying to put a tone of give-a-shit in his voice.
at give-a-shit, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 37: People say they saw the guards passin out knives to the A.B.s, right before they cornered Red out in the yard.
at A.B., n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 22: This broad was an animal.
at animal, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 106: Let’s get your ass cleaned up [...] I can’t take your stink.
at ass, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 21: I wasn’t gonna turn down some ass.
at ass, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 33: You sayin Littleton’s an ass ranger?
at ass ranger (n.) under ass, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 41: ‘Please,’ said Charles. ‘Beggin ass bitch.’.
at -ass, sfx
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 9: I’m kiddin’ you, Giuseppe. Oh, Christ, but I had your ass.
at have someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 99: He’d see Asa on the football field, making half-assed tackles.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 107: Gaskins would have liked nothing better than to bail out on him.
at bail out, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 59: Kids [...] who had begun to drink a little and get blazed had kinda dropped off from playing ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 58: Ronald and Richard Spriggs were tough, but they couldn’t ball. Diego and Shaka took every game.
at ball, v.4
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 245: Ballin [...] Goin to house parties and band shows.
at balling, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 98: Rhonda Willis, riding shotgun in the [...] four-banger Impala.
at banger, n.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 113: How we known this [...] fella ain’t bein bankrolled by someone with power?
at bankroll, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 203: He had completed his prison term on a trafficking beef.
at beef, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 216: I think they wear g-strings [...] Technically, they’re not in their birthday suits.
at birthday suit, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 41: ‘Please,’ said Charles. ‘Beggin ass bitch.’.
at bitch, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 100: ‘They give all the real vehicles to the regular police.’ [...] ‘We do get the bitch cars.’.
at bitch, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 59: Kids [...] who had begun to drink a little and get blazed had kinda dropped off from playing ball.
at blazed (adj.) under blaze, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 20: The was [...] neither a bucket of blood nor a home for gentrifiers.
at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 21: I figured I’d take her out to the parking lot [...] let her blow me.
at blow, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 7: Smoking weed, and doing a little blow.
at blow, n.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 243: ‘That’s a blower,’ said Ronald mockingly.
at blower, n.8
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 59: A T-shirt showing [Bob] Marley smoking a blunt, right off the Catch a Fire cover.
at blunt, n.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 24: He liked the lines but it [i.e. a car] looked too ‘booferish’ with aftermarket rims.
at booferish, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 228: Was Lacy his bottom?
at bottom woman (n.) under bottom, n.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 209: Bottom-knocking that thing on a bed of clean sheets.
at bottom-knock (v.) under bottom, n.3
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 130: You want some [i.e. cognac], brah?
at bra, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 5: The brass don’t like him, but they sure don’t fuck with him.
at brass, n.1
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