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[US] IT 13–25 June 16/4: A lot of these bands are pretty naff anyway.
at naff, adj.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 112: I was becoming a L7, you know, and I stepped off from there. Went on back home to Mom.
at L-7, n.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 219: I had been around a lot of bulldaggers and shit in jail [...] They looked like mad dogs. Bitch, big Amazons!
at amazon, n.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 183: I was taking reds, red devils, [...] pancakes and syrup.
at pancake(s) and syrup, n.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 219: Damn! Look at this ugly-ass bitch.
at -ass, sfx
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 175: For this old funky-ass pussy.
at funky-ass, adj.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 114: I was a C student. When a test came I half-ass cheated.
at half-assed, adv.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 73: The first time I did heroin I did two bags.
at bag, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 28: The next place I moved, the people didn’t snort. They was banging.
at bang, v.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 128: It was no big thing.
at big thing, n.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 208: You’s an evil black bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 173: My children’s father used to love it. That bitch would find me some dope.
at bitch, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 215: I didn’t know I was pregnant, and the bitch fell out in the toilet. Like a clog of meat.
at bitch, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 209: She’d send us to school and ask us what we want to take up, blasé, blasé, and then she make us take up what she wants us to take up.
at blah, adj.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 111: They really want a hit of crack. So it’s like ‘Come on, do what we gonna do here, so I can still go and get my blast’.
at blast, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 230: I used to even buy head from men and shit like that. Buy blow jobs from men. Blow job, baby, let them suck the pussy.
at blow job, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 89: Darrin and I are living on Benjamin Street, down Conshohocken and Benjamin. They call it the Flats. It’s Broomtown. It’s all white.
at Broomtown (n.) under broom, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 135: They lose all morals, principles and respect [...] You know, buff somebody, buff the dude – suck somebody dick. Buffing up them guns. People have said they children are in hospital, all that kind of shit ... they mother died. People do that shit for hits.
at buff, v.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 30: It makes you bug a little bit. Like I never bug like that. Stare in one place for a long time.
at bug, v.6
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 135: I get a buggy feeling, like shit, things crawling on me.
at buggy, adj.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 53: You know, built, and she had big knobs and shit.
at built, adj.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 237: She got some bulldagging butch friends. She see bulldagging-ass Bev every day.
at bull-dagger (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 114: Little bullshit! I got into fights at school a couple of times, nothing serious. ’Cause she punched me. Little bullshit, you know, ’cause she don’t like me ’cause I was maybe the first one with a pair of sneakers on. Stuff like that.
at bullshit!, excl.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 108: She might talk about my girlfriends like they’re bums. ‘Them little bum-bitches you be with’ and stuff like that. She used to call me ‘bum-bitch’ too. I run the streets a lot, so that’s what she says about me now.
at bum-bitch (n.) under bum, n.3
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 17: A lotta guys that look bummy, they don’t be stinking or nothing.
at bummy, adj.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 110: I was bumping then [...] Sticking people up, snatching people’s pocketbooks.
at bump, v.2
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 73: [heroin] Like they sold six-packs, half a bundle.
at bundle, n.1
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 8: He had the clap. And I did it and I got burnt.
at burn, v.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 131: I know eventually I’m gonna get me a hit when I get outside anyway. See, as long as you got a tool for a person to use you’re gonna always get one. I smoke like thirty, forty caps a day. That’s average. Good days I’m busting loose. Oh, my goodness, fifty, sixty, seventy caps. Yeah, I’m busting. I’m constantly on a clock tip if it ain’t nothing but a dollar. Yeah, on a clocking. Meaning getting mines.
at busting (out), adj.
[US] L. Pettiway Workin’ It 173: I’m a call Mom.
at call-girl, n.
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