2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 220: C’mon Frank [...] You fuckin’ around too much now.at fuck about, v.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 127: But now she won’t alibi my brother. She’d be changin’ her story.at alibi (up), v.
2000 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.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 78: Say hello to the Big Apple for all us provincial types down here.at Big Apple, n.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 262: Detective Jonas is Boyle’s baby-sitting job, right?at babysit, v.
2000 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
2000 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
2000 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
2000 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
2000 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.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 105: You got no bank account, Lonnie, so don’t be frontin’ behind that shit.at behind, prep.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 165: Sounds like someone’s pullin’ hard on that singer’s berries.at berries, n.
2000 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
2000 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.
2000 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.
2000 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
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 139: Stefanos figured that anything that blew the first time around still blew, period.at blow, v.2
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 132: Our people think the shooters were knocking off the place for book money.at book, n.
2000 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
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 25: ‘You load the disks in the trunk.’ [...] ‘Always wanted me a box like that.’.at box, n.1
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 132: Hey, the federal boys were surveiling it for months.at boys, the, n.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 214: Young buck with one of those big Afros they all used to wear.at buck, n.1
2000 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.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 84: He liked to drive the city at night when he had a buzz.at buzz, n.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 60: It was okay by Walters for those kids to think whatever they wanted.at by, prep.
2000 G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 240: Otis missed Cali. He couldn’t wait to get back home.at Cali, n.