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[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 312: All of those rent-a-cops gathered around, laughing at his story.
at rent-a-, pfx
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 54: She hates listening to the gunshots that echo from Fairmount and Gilmor at night, wondering if the ambo siren is for DeAndre.
at ambo, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 161: More prisons is the impulse answer, the quick-and-dirty response of so many hack politicians and talk-show hosts.
at quick-and-dirty, adj.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 311: The touts see all that green and welcome them home in the traditional way, with one-and-one.
at one-and-one, n.2
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 69: Baking soda or bonita-and-quinine — B-and-Q — as dope, oregano as weed, battery acid as ready rock.
at B-and-Q, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 76: They find their hires, set their wages, and ante up the day’s first installment.
at ante (up), v.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 321: He used to A-rab on a produce cart.
at arab, v.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 321: One of them Ay-rabbers from up on Bruce Street went down there to cop.
at arabber, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 105: A couple of raggedy-ass, dope-eyed black men stumbling through a county shopping center.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 322: One of the neighborhood’s most committed short count artists and stash stealers.
at -artist, sfx
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 119: The juvenile system is such a pain-in-the-ass complication for a working police.
at pain-in-the-ass, adj.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 27: DeAndre is grown enough to take either a charge or a legal ass-whipping if need be.
at ass-whipping, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 222: ‘I can’t stand a beggin’ ass bitch.’ [...] ‘I can’t stand a broke-ass man.’ [Ibid.] 272: Even if this country-ass suit actually fit him, he still wouldn’t tell his mother.
at -ass, sfx
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 121: R.C., your shit is ass-ugly.
at ass-ugly under ass, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 116: Why, they asked Tyreeka, did you pick that ugly, black-ass nigger?
at black-ass, adj.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 425: Un-ass the dollars for some Air Jordans or I’m back playing gangster.
at un-ass, v.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 55: She went drag-ass into the bedroom to find DeAndre on the bed watching television.
at drag-ass, adv.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 488: It was R.C. who took in the attaboys from Tank and Mike and Tony.
at attaboy, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 125: See the nigger run with them boots [...] Blew you away, Manny Man.
at blow (someone) away, v.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 172: It seemed like she just singled out DeAndre and DeRodd as tar babies, offering them a peculiar coldness.
at tar baby, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 67: A G-pack of a hundred coke vials, sold on consignment, can make you one thousand dollars, with six hundred kicked back to the supplier.
at kick back, v.1
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 124: The rest of them stood there [...] politely silent only because they wanted to play ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 180: He’ll go back to Judge Johnson at Circuit Court to get banged with the whole ten years.
at bang, v.1
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 125: Manny Man spotted a Lexington Terrace rival who had earlier banked Tae.
at bank, v.2
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 358: The kitchen boys race to keep up with the crowd at the counter. ‘We on the beam now, ain’t we?’ shouts Gary.
at on the beam (adj.) under beam, n.3
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 315: Charlene Mack will have run off with June Bey’s ground stash, prompting a beat-down from Dred’s people.
at beat-down, n.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 119: Boys Village is [...] filled with D.C. niggers who like to beef with Baltimore boys.
at beef, v.1
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 490: He’d been beefing with Dinky over some short vials.
at beef, v.1
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 179: By Fran’s reckoning [he] should still be locked up behind that charge.
at behind, prep.
[US] Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 27: The night before, in fact, the knockers rolled past him on Fairmount. No big thing. It wasn’t like he was dirty when they came through.
at no big deal, phr.
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