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[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 424: Well, surer than shit, about a month later we got some information that P— [etc.].
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 125: The stairs were all banged up and half the building torn apart.
at banged up, adj.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 23: I got a call on the bitch box [...] I just ripped the bitch box out of the wall.
at bitch box (n.) under bitch, v.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 41: Huey P. Newton was raised up righteously on the block.
at on the block under block, n.8
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 29: All this blowing that was going on in the streets that day.
at blowing, n.3
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 41: Some bull crap about ‘Huey P. Newton comes from a bourgie family.’.
at bourgie, adj.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 37: Hollering cuss words and bull crap.
at bullcrap (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 167: The gun was for our protection, and not for bull jive.
at bull-jive, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 226: After I came back from court, they called me out of the bullpen.
at bullpen, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 111: If he gets caught with a pistol he’s burned.
at burn, v.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 22: I would go with these other cats who were musicians.
at cat, n.5
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 57: Are you all tight, chintzy, jive, gamblers.
at chintzy, adj.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 143: He had his men all around him, decked down, sharper than a motherfucker.
at decked, adj.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 42: I had always been running down about how we need this organization, that organization, but never anything concrete.
at run down, v.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 41: I don’t think Kenny Freeman liked us field niggers too much.
at field nigger, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 300: It was a goof-up.
at goof up, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 219: I was in a maximum security wing of a place everybody calls Big Greystone [i.e. Alameda County jail, Calif.] because the buildings are made of this drab gray stone.
at graystone college (n.) under gray, adj.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 45: They say Huey was throwing hands.
at throw hands (v.) under hand, n.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 175: One of those hog of hogs, with his fat belly hanging over his belt.
at hog, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 34: I could [...] say, man, loan me a dollar, and he’d let me hold a dollar.
at hold, v.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 33: He’d been to the joint, and had been throwin’ iron up there.
at pump iron (v.) under iron, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 24: The sergeant [...] jacked me up, got his arm around my neck [and] pulled me back.
at jack up, v.4
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 148: Ballard was running around flapping at the jibs. He didn’t know what he was doing.
at flap at the jibs (v.) under jib, n.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 141: The dudes [...] were just jives, [...] we’re just going to have to get uptight on them.
at jive, n.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 25: A whole big crowd of cats jiving and watching me cuss him out.
at jive, v.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 306: Knobs are up-to-date, stylish shoes with well-shined toes.
at knob, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 100: He wouldn’t drink a lick.
at lick, n.1
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 143: He had his men all around him, decked down, sharper than a motherfucker.
at motherfucker, n.
[US] (con. 1965) B. Seale Seize the Time 17: Every paddy I’d see, whop! I’d throw a brick, and it would hit the cars, and zoom! They’re driving down the street, and I’m throwing bricks for a motherfucker.
at for a motherfucker (adv.) under motherfucker, n.
[US] B. Seale Seize the Time 158: Some dudes were high, and wanted to be murder-mouthing – ‘Yeah, I’m going to get a gun.’.
at murder-mouth (v.) under murder, n.
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