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[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 84: Back in a few.
at few, a, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 55: He didn’t give a good fuck if they laughed themselves silly.
at not give a fuck, v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 190: We gonna make some large bank on this motherfucker.
at make bank (v.) under bank, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 190: Don’t worry, big dawg, I’m gonna send Adonis and his shadow.
at big dog, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 229: Five-hundred millimeter lens, it’s like having a nice set of binos.
at binos, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 51: The middleman would receive a ten-thousand-dollar bounce per transaction.
at bounce, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 184: The rest moved their heads to some jungle-jump coming from a box.
at box, n.1
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 232: One of Coleman’s boys is gonna burn us soon for sure.
at burn, v.
[US] 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
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 264: Somethin’ had cacked down here, that was for certain [...] She knew that smell.
at cack, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 57: Looks like everything checked out all right.
at check out, v.2
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 20: You need to give our client back her money, Leon [...] Then everything’ll be chilly.
at chilly, adj.
[US] 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
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 43: She’d be [...] cooked on crank and drunk as a sailor on shore leave.
at cooked, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 12: That Sherman Coles pickup do you in?
at do in, v.
[US] 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.
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