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[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 85: Tell her not to come crying around here when she gets all bigged from messing around with you.
at mess about, v.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 196: They were scared by all that newspaper hot air about teen-age gangs.
at hot air, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 62: Don’t you go sitting out there hugging and kissing [...] If y’all got to get all hot and bothered, come on inside.
at all hot and bothered, phr.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 24: He had been ‘Pop’ from almost the first day he opened for business in the then salt-and-pepper neighborhood.
at salt-and-pepper, adj.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 88: He’d figure he was a smartassed punk that could hold out on me.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 101: Shut up, youse guys. You get on me arsh.
at get (on) someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 198: You’re nothing but a dumb-assed nigger!
at dumb-ass, adj.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 83: Man, oh man, my baby’s got a one-track mind.
at baby, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 99: [man to man] I don’t know you, baby.
at baby, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 10: World’s tired, man, trying to keep the monkey off my back.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 199: You’re riding high on that baloney Monk fed you.
at baloney, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 153: The crowd got a bang out of that too.
at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 35: Drowning his desire to bawl Jake out.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 28: What’s the matter [...] the beast don’t move you?
at beast, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 28: That beast of yours doesn’t think so. [Ibid.] 49: Man, dig that crazy [rump] on the big beast in the plaid skirt!
at beast, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 24: Stacks of cans [...] that rose neatly almost up to the level of his five-foot-six beefy frame.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 39: I’d get mad behind anybody goofing over you.
at behind, prep.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 85: Tell her not to come crying around here when she gets all bigged from messing around with you.
at big, v.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 121: The bims is busting down the front door.
at bim, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 24: The black belt had spread ten miles in each direction in the last twenty years.
at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 34: We’re playing this boogy, we’re playing it for the bobby sox.
at bobby soxer, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 83: Only a crazy man would cut long hours when he could bounce some bones across the table and know he was going to come out on top.
at bones, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 34: From four to four-thirty was the Boogy Joogy section, strictly for the squares.
at boogie-joogie, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 14: Fifty dollars, sweet Jesus, fifty boons you’ll never see again.
at boon, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 101: Never seen a boot neighborhood yet wasn’t a mess.
at boot, n.2
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 28: He didn’t want to shoot the breeze.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 24: He [...] placed a gray stingy brim on his head.
at stingy-brim, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 132: ‘Keep the change.’ [...] ‘Thanks, bro.’.
at bro, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 181: Buddy, you better be careful, real, real careful.
at buddy, n.
[US] H. Simmons Corner Boy 212: Out in the sunlight [...] shooting the bull with the fellows.
at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6
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