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[US] Z.N. Hurston Hoodoo (1995) 180: She all de time way from dat house – off fanfootin’whilst he workin’ lak a dog!
at fan-foot, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Hoodoo (1995) 179: She even throwed at me once, but she can’t do nothin’.
at throw, v.
[US] H.M. Hyatt Hoodoo (1970) I 280: A white fellow came to me and asked me to go with him down to one of these double-head doctors [...] We goes down and she [the double-head doctor] fixed him. She told his fortune and told him what to do and stopped him from going to court.
at double-headed (adj.) under double, adj.
[US] H.M. Hyatt Hoodoo (1970) 1 12: Dey’ll go, prob’ly uptown an’ tell a false’ on me an’ have me put in jail [DARE].
at false, n.
[US] in H.M. Hyatt Hoodoo (1970) 2.1477: Now, Peelee, ah want chew to ’fend dis case [DARE].
at fend, v.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 129: This marked the beginning of a whole mess of ‘acid rock’ sessions.
at acid rock (n.) under acid, n.1
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 220: He worked the other joints, the buckets-of-blood.
at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 197: Lawyers was bogarting all my money.
at bogart, v.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 126: I stored boosted clothes that these Mexican girls used to bring me.
at boost, v.2
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 190: I came up with the old Ninth Ward slang: ‘I’m just in need of a little brain salad surgery,’ which was a way of saying you’re out looking for head. The brain surgery bit caught up in pop slang.
at brain salad surgery (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 1: U.S. Public Health Hospital, Fort Worth [...] In the bat of an eye, I’m out on the bricks of the fonky streets of Fort Worth.
at on the bricks under bricks, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 120: No free man (no warden) runs nothing at all. They run it in name only—the big chingodas are the cats with the cash; they and the kites to the bricks (the links to outside) have clout. [Ibid.] 125: Back in New Orleans before I was put off the bricks.
at bricks, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 121: You know I was bum-rap’d just t’other day [...] The kangaroo court—hah!—the kangaroo court that’s where the free man sends you to.
at bum rap, v.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 120: No free man (no warden) runs nothing at all. They run it in name only—the big chingodas are the cats with the cash; they and the kites to the bricks (the links to outside) have clout.
at chingoda, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 33: My mother would come in, and before long she’d be laughing and cutting up because she was getting contact high.
at contact high, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 136: Wayne was a cool cat.
at cool cat (n.) under cool, adj.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 128: I [...] copped a job playing piano for Frank Zappa.
at cop, v.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 1: Smelling rawhide and cow pies.
at cow pie (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 179: Things sort of dissolved into one big wall of smoking, toking, and no okey-doking.
at okey-doke, n.2
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 130: I was living in Hollywood at a dope-fiend motel.
at dope fiend (n.) under dope, n.1
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 205: He got up, a big shit-eating grin on his face.
at shit-eating grin, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 119: One thing that surprised me right off was the flak I caught from cats from home in New Orleans, guys I thought were my friends.
at catch flak (v.) under flak, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 2: This is a testament to New Orleans funk. [...] And one last word of warning: You can’t shut the fonk up. No, the fonk got a mind of its own.
at fonk, n.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 1: I’m out on the bricks of the fonky streets of Fort Worth. [Ibid.] 179: This was when I knew some fonky shit was going down.
at fonky, adj.1
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 2: Shut down by a gangbusters DA who padlocked the gambling dens, whorehouses, juke joints [...] that had kept the New Orleans music scene alive.
at gangbuster, adj.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 193: It [...] meant a whole lot more work on those nitty-gritty details.
at nitty-gritty, adj.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 209: You haul your ass outta here.
at haul oneself (v.) under haul, v.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 33: Shank began sending me out for heavier stuff than marijuana. [...] I knew about heroin, but I didn’t completely understand what it did.
at heavy, adj.
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 204: ‘Well, what are you holding?’ He broke out this bottle of stuff and fixed me up.
at hold, v.1
[US] Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 32: I told my parents the stuff wasn’t mine, that I was just holding for friends.
at hold, v.1
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