2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 143: Nickel-dime gym bums looking to hustle a two-dollar loan.at nickel-and-dime, adj.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 230: Jive-ass, ain’t no cabs cruisin these parts, you think I a fool?at jive-ass, n.1
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 154: Hymn open up on Broadway and South Central [...] Long-ass way for somebody like Danger.at -ass, sfx
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 27: I don’t give a rat’s ass. I’m gonna hang around just to watch the fucker bleed.at give a rat’s ass (v.) under rat’s ass, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 76: She kicked ass. Four fights and four kayos, two coming in the first minute of the first round.at kick ass, v.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 17: Ballpark, I get first cut of the purse, 2 percent.at ball-park figure (n.) under ball-park, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 80: She was a banger who waded in winging shots from all angles.at banger, n.5
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 18: I tout him on La Costa, but tell him it isn’t cheap, and he says no big thing.at no big deal, phr.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 112: Then they go back to their dark rooms and watch bimbo TV shows to keep their minds off the fight.at bimbo, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 83: ‘What if the ref sees me?’ ‘Keep the bull bitch between you and him and he won’t.’.at bull bitch, n.2
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 176: You a bitch, man [...] I’ma try you shit on some fool stick up he chin like me.at bitch, n.1
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 150: Shawrelle think Hymn be his bitch, and next trick Shawrelle try to pull to tell Hymn to carry his gym bag down to the street.at bitch, n.1
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 54: Fifth round and Dashiki make his run. He come out throwing bombs.at bomb, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 55: The card girl jump into the ring, all prancing and shaking her booty.at booty, n.2
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 88: ‘You could go to school. I’d drive you.’ Maggie would nod. ‘I know you would, boss.’.at boss, n.2
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 191: The ugly brick-top would be so easy to finger in a lineup that he’d be spending most of his life in the joint.at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 181: They wanted to see how the old man would do against the big bulldagger ho.at bull-dagger (n.) under bull, n.1
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 15: I never bet on a fight I’m working [...] This way, if I somehow screw up and cause my boy to lose, it can never be said that I did business.at business, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 2: I did my best for a year or so in a bust-out gym in Ocean Park, California.at bust-out, adj.2
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 165: What is now Chinatown is where the bust-out Irish working the railroads first lived.at bust-out, adj.2
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 195: You ever thought of being a fighter instead of a butt fucker?at buttfucker, n.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 134: Con was glad the ref hadn’t called him on the gun, because he’d been selling wolf tickets on the nine-millimeter from the git.at call, v.
2000 F.X. Toole Rope Burns 165: If some fool of whatever color was coming to kill him, he’d pop a cap in his ass in a heartbeat.at pop a cap (v.) under cap, n.2