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[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 166: Was she pretty like you? [...] Probably not when she was geekin’ behind that shit [i.e. crack cocaine]. They lose their ass at that point.
at lose one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 138: Durham [...] saw his son, Laron, a beef baby he had fathered four years ago, once or twice a year.
at beef baby (n.) under beef, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 208: He’s the big Magilla in his corner of the world.
at big magilla (n.) under big, adj.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 204: I don’t know what you dream about up here, cowboy, but it doesn’t get anything solved.
at cowboy, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 253: I don’t drink no beer no how [...] My drink is Crys.
at cris, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 310: The overheads of cruisers flashed the crime scene and threw colored light upon the faces of Strange and Quinn.
at cruiser, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 165: Why you want to go and do him dirt now?
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 165: ‘They be trying to talk to everyone knew Phil and Granville.’ ‘They tryin’. Except for some dry snitches they got inside, though, they ain’t had too much success.’.
at dry snitch, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 162: I’ll give what I got for some dummies I can sell out there on the strip. I can make a quick rack of money like that.
at dummy, n.5
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 312: [He] told me he was protected. Which is why he goes about his business down here and doesn’t take the long fall.
at take a fall (v.) under fall, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 208: ‘He’s the big Magilla in his corner of the world.’ ‘So nobody’s gonna flip on his brother.’.
at flip, v.5
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 208: ‘You bring Dewayne in?’ said Strange. ‘Yeah,’ said Grady. ‘He gave us jack shit.’.
at jackshit, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 208: Doesn’t tolerate knuckleheads or any kind of foolishness.
at knucklehead, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 162: You can lay up here for a little while, I guess.
at lay up, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 164: I know you remember that it was Phil Wood who asked me to put you on. How it was him who was lookin’ out for you.
at put someone on (v.) under on, adv.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 316: You punk-ass motherfuckers out here, think you can threaten a police officer.
at punk-ass (adj.) under punk, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 201: He had some fake crack in his pocket, a whole rack of dummies.
at rack, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 162: I’ll give what I got for some dummies I can sell out there on the strip. I can make a quick rack of money like that.
at rack, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 166: Phil say she was one of those rock stars, from back when he had that, what do they call it, epidemic here in the city.
at rock star (n.) under rock, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 138: You need to roll up on those cousins out on the street.
at roll up on (v.) under roll, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 259: The road had stop lights but was straight and heavily trafficked, the easiest kind of tail job.
at tail job (n.) under tail, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 162: You wanna play some Street before you tip out?
at tip, v.7
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 311: It would be an anonymous call. I’d tip him that his brother got done by Horace McKinley.
at tip, v.4
[US] G. Pelecanos Soul Circus 258: A blacktop badland [...] still littered with trick-pad motels, last-stand truck stops and drinker’s bars.
at trick pad (n.) under trick, n.1
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