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Monster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member choose

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[US] H. Bleackley Monster 322: I’ve had about enough of thy sauce, [...] and I’m sick of thy lazy scowbanking ways into t’ bargain.
at scowbanking, adj.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 343: Next to you is an A.B. and on the other side is an E.M.E.
at A.B., n.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 154: This would be a stomp-down, drag-out brawl.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 19: Y’all bail, we just busted on some Families!
at bail, v.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 180: We bailed out of our foxhole and into the lights of an on-coming car.
at bail out, v.
[US] (con. 1980) K. Scott Monster (1994) 48: Mama, I’m gonna be good. I ain’t gonna bang no more.
at bang, v.5
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 25: The police have a vast array of laws [...] to curtail the bangers’ growth.
at banger, n.6
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 12: Bangin’ ain’t no part-time thang, it’s full-time, it’s a career.
at banging, n.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 172: I beat my case. They let me out.
at beat, v.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 104: Gang members who are combat soldiers are subject to the same mind-bend as are veterans of foreign wars.
at mind-bender, n.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 46: She had been totally bent out of shape by the fact that I had gotten a civilian pregnant.
at bent out of shape (adj.) under bent, adj.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 45: Biscuits (old-men comfort shoes, the first shoe officially dubbed a ‘Crip shoe.’).
at biscuit, n.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 145: Yo’ punk-ass homies blasted me up.
at blast, v.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 258: Lep had fallen victim to the new enemy – crack – and was doing everthing and anything to get a blast.
at blast, n.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 198: Eight Ball was murdered – blown up in a ride-by ambush.
at blow up, v.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 228: ‘You smoke cigarettes?’ ‘Naw, just bo.’.
at bo, n.3
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 185: All jittery and gung-ho, eager to make his bones in the department.
at make one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 68: The box is actually solitary confinement, where those being held for murder one are sent for seven days.
at box, n.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 214: Somebody got killed on the bricks?
at on the bricks under bricks, n.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 50: At the first driveway, bust a U-turn.
at bust, v.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 19: Y’all bail, we just busted on some Families!
at bust on (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 43: I did so many ride-bys, drive-ups, drive-throughs and chase-aways in her car.
at drive-by, n.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 156: Our dayroom time was mostly spent going chest: Charlie row against Able row.
at get chest (v.) under chest, adj.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 150: You know cuz claimin’ Main Street now.
at claim, v.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 178: Hey, man [...] This is a clean van.
at clean, adj.
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 14: He clicked right away with the others, too.
at click, v.3
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 57: Our ’hood was now being clocked by not just the Sixties but their allies and our new enemies.
at clock, v.1
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 9: ‘Courted in’ means to be accepted [i.e. into a gang] through a barrage of tests, usually physical, though this can include shooting people.
at court in (v.) under court, n.
[US] (con. 1978) K. Scott Monster (1994) 22: You little crab-ass punk!
at crab, n.3
[US] K. Scott Monster (1994) 249: The back of my head [...] was stinging like crazy.
at like crazy, adv.
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