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Shame the Devil choose

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[US] P. Appleman Shame the Devil 33: Schtoonk! Jessie shrieked at him. Schlemiel!
at schtoonk, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 220: C’mon Frank [...] You fuckin’ around too much now.
at fuck about, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 127: But now she won’t alibi my brother. She’d be changin’ her story.
at alibi (up), v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 24: You listen to the news, amigo?
at amigo, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 117: Wants to keep this a meat-and-potatoes, middle-of-the-road, bar-food kind of place. I’d like to do a whole lot more.
at meat-and-potatoes, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 78: Say hello to the Big Apple for all us provincial types down here.
at Big Apple, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 262: Detective Jonas is Boyle’s baby-sitting job, right?
at babysit, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 42: You can keep your Caucasian junkies [...] I prefer women with a little back on ’em.
at back, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 76: You watch yourself if you’re going to be hanging around Kennedy [...] I’ve seen some really bad shit go down on that strip.
at bad shit, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 132: May’s was the last stop on a weekly bag run, and apparently the shooters knew it.
at bag, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 99: He fucked her [...] imagining he was banging one of the many trophy wives he had seen walking through the lobby of the hotel.
at bang, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 81: ‘You don’t know the half of it. I was beating them off.’ ‘That must have made them happy.’.
at beat off, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 105: You got no bank account, Lonnie, so don’t be frontin’ behind that shit.
at behind, prep.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 165: Sounds like someone’s pullin’ hard on that singer’s berries.
at berries, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 203: On the last day of his bit, he promised Farrow and Otis he’d stay in touch.
at bit, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 197: Off 301 somewhere and down a couple of two-lane blacktops, near a place called Nanjemoy.
at blacktop (n.) under black, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 176: Was a time when you would not leave the blacktop. You even used to drag me to those ABA games.
at blacktop (n.) under black, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 40: From his appearance, I’d say that guy’s been a round the block a few times.
at go around the block (v.) under block, n.8
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 139: Stefanos figured that anything that blew the first time around still blew, period.
at blow, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 132: Our people think the shooters were knocking off the place for book money.
at book, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 11: He’d done his share of small-time boosts — car thefts, smash-and-grabs, like that — with his older brother.
at boost, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 25: ‘You load the disks in the trunk.’ [...] ‘Always wanted me a box like that.’.
at box, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 132: Hey, the federal boys were surveiling it for months.
at boys, the, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 214: Young buck with one of those big Afros they all used to wear.
at buck, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 112: C’mon with it, little buddy. That all you got?
at buddy, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 96: ‘You flush?’ ‘I’m about busted flat in Baton Rouge and waitin’ on a train.’.
at busted (out), adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 242: Stefanos butted his smoke.
at butt, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 84: He liked to drive the city at night when he had a buzz.
at buzz, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 60: It was okay by Walters for those kids to think whatever they wanted.
at by, prep.
[US] G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 240: Otis missed Cali. He couldn’t wait to get back home.
at Cali, n.
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