2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 55: He didn’t give a good fuck if they laughed themselves silly.at not give a fuck, v.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 89: What you think, Richard? This salt-and-pepper team we got here, they cops?at salt-and-pepper, adj.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 214: Logan had this dog, a boxer mix, called him Greco. Bad-ass dog, too [...] and I always liked the name.at bad-ass, adj.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 190: We gonna make some large bank on this motherfucker.at make bank (v.) under bank, n.1
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 190: Don’t worry, big dawg, I’m gonna send Adonis and his shadow.at big dog, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 229: Five-hundred millimeter lens, it’s like having a nice set of binos.at binos, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 58: Blow fiends and pipeheads, their money’s green too, don’t get me wrong.at blow fiend (n.) under blow, n.3
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 132: Earl slipped the .38 back into his jacket. He checked his clothing for blowback and saw that he was clean.at blowback, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 226: Usually, you see a guy hangin’ around with restaurant employees like that, it means he’s making book.at make book (on) (v.) under book, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 46: He slipped a deck of Marlboro reds into his shirt pocket and watched his son take his own pack of ’Boros off the bar and do the same.at ’Boro, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 51: The middleman would receive a ten-thousand-dollar bounce per transaction.at bounce, n.2
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 184: The rest moved their heads to some jungle-jump coming from a box.at box, n.1
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 45: He wasn’t too good-looking so anyone would mistake him for a pretty boy.at pretty-boy, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 86: They’re selling some off-brand, two steps down from cold duck, for fifty dollars a bottle to those poor suckers in here.at off-brand, adj.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 161: Franklin pointed a lazy finger at the unit. ‘Uh-uh. Turn that bullshit off or I walk away.’.at bullshit, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 232: One of Coleman’s boys is gonna burn us soon for sure.at burn, v.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 231: You can bust these kids, see, and you can bust the users, but so what?at bust, v.1
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 264: Somethin’ had cacked down here, that was for certain [...] She knew that smell.at cack, v.1
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 111: They find blunt or cheva or whatever you’re calling it these days inside the car, you got a mark on your record you can’t shake.at cheva, n.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 102: Chick music, like all the rock and soul with female vocals she had been playing that night.at chick, adj.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 20: You need to give our client back her money, Leon [...] Then everything’ll be chilly.at chilly, adj.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 51: Roberto had been raped and bludgeoned to death by a cock-diesel with a lead pipe.at cock-diesel (n.) under cock, n.3
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 43: She’d be [...] cooked on crank and drunk as a sailor on shore leave.at cooked, adj.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 199: I hate cracker motherfuckers! [...] I swear to God, I’m gonna kill the next white motherfucker I see!at cracker, adj.1
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 280: He said, ‘I’ll be goddamned,’ and said it again as he went through the rest.at I’ll be goddamned! (excl.) under god-damn, v.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 198: A young man [...] made a comment directed at Juana, saying how he’d like to ‘kick that shit deep’.at deep, adv.
2001 G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 7: White man [...] said that doing the dozens was this thing we been doin’ for generations. Called it the precursor of rap music.at dozens, n.