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[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 10: I couldn’t sing worth a damn.
at worth a damn under worth a..., phr.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 8: If you inclined to plea-cop, them streets contributed to the delinquency of a whole lot of minors. [Ibid.] 98: I ain’t copping no plea, motherfucker.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 5: Only plea I ever copped cost me three years in the slams.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 70: If it was up to me they coulda buried you.
at -a, sfx
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 49: ‘You’re pals with Tommy Dunphy [...]?’ ‘Yeah, we’re aces.’.
at ace, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 20: I’m going to go all the way.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 24: The broads were all over.
at all over, adj.2
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 21: ‘Like Earl used to say, yo’ hole and yo’ soul is buck neck-id in the Joint. So that’s how come three cats from different alleys got close and stayed close’.
at alley, n.1
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 96: You gonna come in here with a rice-and-beans shakedown?
at rice-and-beans, adj.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 15: Big Jeff from the ‘Mutt and jeff’ detective team from the Twenty-Third.
at mutt and jeff, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 118: Wesley Scott [...] An anglo with a last name for a first name is automatically a prick.
at anglo, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 51: The Mapp case came down — all the cons went ape.
at go ape (v.) under ape, adj.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 139: Get him off the script for one question and he gets the apple right away.
at get the apple (v.) under apple, n.1
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 73: We got you for assualt [...] How do you like them onions?
at how do you like them apples?, phr.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 23: The St. Nick’s Arena, the Manhattan Center, the Caborojeño, Broadway Casino—seems like everybody was dancing their ass off.
at — the arse/ass off under arse, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 81: Reggie. Fuckin’ pain in the ass.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 16: He was bad. But wasn’t no flake artist.
at -artist, sfx
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 18: I was happy as a pig in shit.
at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 88: Lllod, he is a dead-ass, don’t let’s get weighted down with him.
at dead ass, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 57: I’ll fix your Jew ass.
at fix someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 14: Sometime Moran the cop would get a bug up his ass and grab me.
at have a bug up one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 83: Reggie is a shit-ass and he knows it.
at shit ass, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 40: Every time Steinhardt gets an answer to his stupid-ass questions he looks at the jury.
at -ass, sfx
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 22: Me and Earl runnin’ around outside bare-ass in the cold.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 33: Where yo’all barrel-assing to?
at barrel-ass, v.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 25: Marlon Brando sit in on conga (couldn’t play to save his ass).
at save one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 65: I hereby order the D.A. committed for ninety days [...] for presenting such a shit-ass case.
at shit-ass, adj.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 145: The big gui [sic] like to fall through his own asshole.
at fall through one’s own asshole (v.) under asshole, n.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 138: Who does he think he is [...] Where his head at?
at where one is at, phr.
[US] E. Torres Carlito’s Way 49: Myself, I didn’t want to know [...] ’cause then you got to take an attitude.
at cop an attitude (v.) under attitude, n.
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