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The Sweet Forever choose

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[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 4: Had me a little brown sugar action this morning.
at action, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 11: His dust days were over, though; he’d lost too many amigos to that stuff.
at amigo, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 221: ‘Salt-and-pepper team,’ said McGinnes.
at salt-and-pepper, adj.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 51: Mutt and jeff were back on the couch.
at mutt and jeff, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 37: Karras ankled his position at the end of the semester.
at ankle, v.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 67: The salesman [...] called it an ‘ass-kickin’, booty-whippin’’ picture.
at ass-kicking, adv.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 5: A bad-ass prison picture called Short Eyes.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 67: When the jungle heats up and boils over, you’re gonna see a lot of those candy-ass National Guardsmen dead in the street.
at candy-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 60: The place was ass-to-elbow, humid all year round, and always smelled like something between piss and perspiration.
at ass-to-elbow under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 255: He’d snorted, laughed shortly, said something about ‘those simple-ass motherfuckers’. [Ibid.] 291: Damn [...] That’s a pretty-ass Riviera.
at -ass, sfx
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 83: He had traded a half to some no-ass, nose-running junkie over on 10th.
at no-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 40: Scores of purple-clad kids had descended on Georgetown in hopes of spotting His Royal Badness.
at badness (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 45: With 3:10 to play, it looked like Alabama had it in the bag.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 61: He could keep to himself, have a slow glass of cold beer, watch a little ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 94: He didn’t have the same kind of balls-out courage as the white cop.
at balls out (adv.) under balls, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 106: Hey, Marcus, what are ya gonna do, bust my balls forever?
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 203: If Tutt’s in bed with Tyrell [...] then you know the two of them have go to hook up to talk about damage control.
at in bed with (adj.) under bed, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 21: ‘Any beeswax? [...] The business,’ said Karras. ‘We doin’ any?’.
at beeswax, n.2
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 167: [of a car] Turn this bitch over, man.
at bitch, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 257: There was this one bitch he had, his very own house mouse.
at bitch, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 71: You ready, black?
at black, n.
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 78: Had some wicked body odor coming off her, too, like she’d blown off showers for a week.
at blow off, v.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 117: Murphy got out of the blue-and-white, and walked down the block.
at blue-and-white (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 274: ‘Gimme some of that boat, man.’ Ray handed Monroe a lit joint.
at boat, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 14: Not that she wasn’t a slave to the bone to begin with.
at bone, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 48: He smiled, leaned forward from his place on the couch, where he sat twisting up a fat bone.
at bone, n.1
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 38: ‘Funny, him taking off like that.’ ‘I know. I wonder why he booked.’.
at book, v.2
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 252: You could bury a few bootheads real easy with twenty-five rounds.
at boothead (n.) under boot, n.2
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 67: The salesman [...] called it an ‘ass-kickin’, booty-whippin’ ’ picture.
at booty, n.2
[US] (con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 66: You came up positive on a [drug] test, it could get you bounced right off the force.
at bounce, v.1
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