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[US] (con. 1930s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 29: Coach Blakey invited me to the tryouts, not ole lard ass.
at lard-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 204: Can you imagine a stud like me, who used to be one of the baddest mammy-tapping gangleaders in this jive town, now trying to uphold the law in this raggedy jive-ass city?
at jive-ass, adj.
[US] H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 247: Man, if this nigger was a white man I’d hang his ass.
at hang someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 163: St. Louis sure was living up to its name of being a jive-time, country-assed town.
at -assed, sfx
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 156: They had a lot of square cats hanging around the Showbar. They had a lot of square babes around there too.
at babe, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 204: Can you imagine a stud like me, who used to be one of the baddest mammy-tapping gangleaders in this jive town, now trying to uphold the law?
at baddest (adj.) under bad, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 106: One time Raymond faked Jimmy all the way up on top of the hood of a parked car. All the guys got a bang out of that.
at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
[US] H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 62: Now if that don’t beat all.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 213: Man, the bims around this mammy-tapping town is something, ain’t they?
at bim, n.1
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 201: Yeh man a boot running around claiming he’s beat is about as far off base as a gray boy running around talking ’bout he’s got the blues.
at boot, n.2
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 114: ‘Aw that’s all right, papa cool breeze.’ The dark guy pushed Freck away.
at cool breeze, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 183: That alone was enough to bug a cat out of its sanity.
at bug out, v.2
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 221: You ever known me to bullskate you about your playing?
at bullskate (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 120: Pay attention you little butt hole.
at butthole (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] (con. 1930s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 21: You poppa’s a cannonball.
at cannonball, n.
[US] H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 185: Aw baby, now you really taking me through some changes.
at put through changes (v.) under changes, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 165: She took a deep drag, put the joint out and cocktailed the roach in a cigarette.
at cocktail, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 222: No kidding, man; his group’s cooking, huh?
at cooking, adj.1
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 155: He even made a couple of sets [...] at the Red Top, playing cornbread music for the boogie-woogie crowd.
at cornbread, adj.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 163: St. Louis sure was living up to its name of being a jive-time, country-assed town.
at country, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 160: All the crumb-snatchers along Papin Avenue who looked at the movie houses with bulging eyes.
at crumb-catcher (n.) under crumb, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 114: Hey, wait a minute, cuzz, what’s going on?
at cuz, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 115: The boys tell me your cuzz used one of my boys for a blackboard to write a message on.
at cuz, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 81: ‘You dodo head. I’ma beat your butt.’ ‘Aw nigger, you ain’t gone do nothing. Dodo on you and yo mama too.’.
at do-do, n.1
[US] (con. 1930s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 62: Jerome, you ain’t nothing. You can’t whip do-do.
at do-do, n.1
[US] (con. 1930s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 65: Well, she just about talked your earblocks off.
at talk someone’s ear off (v.) under ear, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 106: Raymond became a big thing around the neighborhood by making a fool of him with a football. One time Raymond faked Jimmy all the way up on top of the hood of a parked car. All the guys got a bang out of that.
at fake, v.1
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 118: Why you little farthead, just wait till I get you to the station.
at fart-head (n.) under fart, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 157: Jetan was a knockout [...] Jetan had got as fine as wine and ripe for plucking.
at fine as wine (adj.) under fine, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 166: Jerome handed over another joint. Raymond fired up.
at fire up, v.
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