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A Conversation with the Mann choose

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[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 55: That [...] is how you dumb-ass niggers move a bunk.
at dumb-ass, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 91: The kitten’s a canary. She something, isn’t she?
at canary, n.1
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 31: Pop wasn’t crashing, he was crying.
at crash (out), v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 44: We gotta fake how we eighteen.
at fake, v.1
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 92: Except for standing there and looking goofy, you did nothing.
at goofy, adj.
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 87: I held out a couple of bucks. ‘Here. Grab a cab.’.
at grab, v.
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 89: Score some good drugs, have some loose sex, and just generally be hep.
at hep, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 36: What it translated to was: ‘Knock it off, niggers’.
at knock it off!, excl.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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