1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 312: All of those rent-a-cops gathered around, laughing at his story.at rent-a-, pfx
1997 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.
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 76: They find their hires, set their wages, and ante up the day’s first installment.at ante (up), v.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 321: One of them Ay-rabbers from up on Bruce Street went down there to cop.at arabber, n.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 105: A couple of raggedy-ass, dope-eyed black men stumbling through a county shopping center.at ragged-arsed, adj.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 322: One of the neighborhood’s most committed short count artists and stash stealers.at -artist, sfx
1997 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.
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 116: Why, they asked Tyreeka, did you pick that ugly, black-ass nigger?at black-ass, adj.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 425: Un-ass the dollars for some Air Jordans or I’m back playing gangster.at un-ass, v.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 55: She went drag-ass into the bedroom to find DeAndre on the bed watching television.at drag-ass, adv.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 488: It was R.C. who took in the attaboys from Tank and Mike and Tony.at attaboy, n.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 125: See the nigger run with them boots [...] Blew you away, Manny Man.at blow (someone) away, v.
1997 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.
1997 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
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 124: The rest of them stood there [...] politely silent only because they wanted to play ball.at ball, n.1
1997 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
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 125: Manny Man spotted a Lexington Terrace rival who had earlier banked Tae.at bank, v.2
1997 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
1997 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.
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 119: Boys Village is [...] filled with D.C. niggers who like to beef with Baltimore boys.at beef, v.1
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 490: He’d been beefing with Dinky over some short vials.at beef, v.1
1997 Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 179: By Fran’s reckoning [he] should still be locked up behind that charge.at behind, prep.
1997 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.