2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 55: That [...] is how you dumb-ass niggers move a bunk.at dumb-ass, adj.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 22: The peep show ended when a couple of beat pounders splashed out into the lake to get the woman.at beat pounder (v.) under beat, n.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 59: I could tell jokes, though. That I could do. I would bust up the boys with some bits I heard from comics on Toast of the Town.at bust up, v.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 91: The kitten’s a canary. She something, isn’t she?at canary, n.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 91: What do you say to a woman who’s probably been tossed lines by every Charlie who’d ever caught her act.at charlie, n.2
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 89: Men and men were routine, same with women and women, and men and men who dressed like women, and any other combo you could dream up.at combo, n.2
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 88: They did believe that television rotted the brain, all commies weren’t bad, and if they were, they weren’t as bad as Pat Boone stealing from the Negroes.at commie, n.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 27: A kid had no business running down to a corner or dark alley and copping dope.at cop, v.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 83: We would [...] catch the other acts, joke to each other about the ones we thought corny.at corny, adj.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 73: Just another kid who wanted to crack funny but couldn’t get stage time.at crack funny (v.) under crack, v.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 89: In that scene, in that craaazy scene, Fran and I could pal around stare-free.at crazy, adj.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 88: The Village cribbed every fresh artist, every new musician, and every cat and kitten who desired to be one.at crib, v.4
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 84: I was counting my cut of the door. It didn’t take but an instant.at cut, n.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 87: Fran was okeydoke, the kind of girl you thought of as one of the guys.at okey-doke, adj.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 55: He was fixing to have a go at these boys like he was Charlie Bad-Brother.at have a go (v.) under go, n.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 18: Her hair had no kink. It was wavy and near shoulder-length, what back then got called ‘good hair’.at good hair (n.) under good, adj.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 92: Except for standing there and looking goofy, you did nothing.at goofy, adj.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 87: I held out a couple of bucks. ‘Here. Grab a cab.’.at grab, v.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 89: Score some good drugs, have some loose sex, and just generally be hep.at hep, adj.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 26: Always making sure I had enough money to go out and buy my father a high.at high, n.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 73: It was a hole of a joint where comics [...] could go and do their thing for what constituted an audience.at hole, n.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 29: On good days he looked like something that’s just come from hopping freight trains.at hop, v.1
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 77: Watching the crowd get [...] plenty more hot with every comic and singer and dog act that went on taking up valuable stage time.at hot, adj.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 36: What it translated to was: ‘Knock it off, niggers’.at knock it off!, excl.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 87: Come on. It’ll be fun. We’ll catch a couple of acts, get us both jazzed up again.at jazz up (v.) under jazz, v.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 60: Having people hoot and clap for me same as they did for the TV comics [...] gave me a jazz.at jazz, n.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 88: The Beat girls, sporting sloppy Joe sweaters and drainpipes that ran a few inches short of their flat Capezios.at sloppy Joe, n.
2002 J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 52: I saw that Washington was a whole other kind of joint, the exact opposite of the city.at joint, n.