1977 E. Torres Q&A 53: [C]arving knives, kitchen knives, 007 blades, a machete with wedding cake still smeared on the handle.at 007, n.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 79: Lets take our bathing suits off. We’ll go in the water. Adán y Eva.at Adam and Eve’s tog(s), n.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 18: I always knew you was a racist, rice-’n-beans, jive-ass Po’ Rican.at rice-and-bean, adj.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 18: This Curtis was blowin’ people up all over the neighborhood, mostly policy and dope guys that wouldn’t ante up.at ante (up), v.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 164: ‘You just got out of school, Reilly. I been in the kicks-in-the-ass school all my life’.at kick-ass, adj.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 111: Listen, I am gay. I don’t deny it, but I ain’t no punk. I have backfired on a lot of people on the street who thought, because I was a maricón, they could abuse me.at backfire, v.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 41: You know Roman was his man. He bound to bad-breath Guido.at bad-breath (v.) under bad, adj.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 183: [T]he foster homes, out for a free dollar. [...] Running away at ten and bagged in the freight yard by them three skells.at bag, v.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 120: Deputy bag for everybody—sergeants, lieutenants, captains, borough, division—but always a short count.at bagman, n.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 146: ‘I’ll get out quick, but let me get out of the way. Don’t shoot me, abafongul!’.at bah-fungoo!, excl.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 19: ‘Two guns, eh? [...] Big Balls,’ Valentin said, forming semicircles with his curled thumbs and index fingers’.at balls, n.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 47: Right away I see things. I go to the movies with my old lady. Bang. Right away I tell her. John Wayne’s songs ain’t gonna sell, and he’s gonna start drinking.at bang, adj.2
1977 E. Torres Q&A 33: The Comanches came in the poolroom on 106th Street, bassin’ at everybody.at bass, v.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 191: When Guido beams on you, your balls gonna turn into grapefruit pits and you gonna get lockjaw of the elbow.at beam, v.1
1977 E. Torres Q&A 150: Mauricio says the men will not stay on the boat with Roger, that he wants to bring his boy-ass aboard.at boy-ass (n.) under boy, n.2
1977 E. Torres Q&A 35: The FBI file on Reilly’s desk read him as a middle-echelon button [...] reputed to have been ‘made’ in the early 1950s.at button man (n.) under button, n.4
1977 E. Torres Q&A 157: ‘[T]he guy belonged to some downtown cheech. There was a hell of a row with the mob and with the department’.at Don Cheech, n.
1977 E. Torres Q&A 75: We are [...] victims of a thousand years of popery and Thomistic claptrap.at clap-trap, n.1
1977 E. Torres Q&A 90: When we left the room, you and Nancy went into a heavy clinch, right?at clinch, n.