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[US] 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.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 40: Motherfuckin’-A right.
at motherfucking-A, adv.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 18: I always knew you was a racist, rice-’n-beans, jive-ass Po’ Rican.
at rice-and-bean, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 41: You know Roman was his man. He bound to bad-breath Guido.
at bad-breath (v.) under bad, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 120: Deputy bag for everybody—sergeants, lieutenants, captains, borough, division—but always a short count.
at bagman, n.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 19: ‘Two guns, eh? [...] Big Balls,’ Valentin said, forming semicircles with his curled thumbs and index fingers’.
at balls, n.
[US] 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
[US] E. Torres Q&A 33: The Comanches came in the poolroom on 106th Street, bassin’ at everybody.
at bass, v.
[US] 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
[US] E. Torres Q&A 87: Think I’m crazy in the belfry?
at belfry, n.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 91: If it gets down to the biff-bams, you can do him up.
at biff, n.1
[US] E. Torres Q&A 41: You gonna listen to this blowtop, Texidor?
at blowtop (n.) under blow, v.2
[US] E. Torres Q&A 187: That’s cool for you. You his boon-coon.
at boon coon, n.
[US] 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
[US] E. Torres Q&A 177: We got a bug on Bobby Tex’s wire.
at bug, n.4
[US] E. Torres Q&A 71: I’m sorry, Chappie. It’s bugout time. No other way.
at bug out, v.1
[US] 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
[US] E. Torres Q&A 157: Some half-a-button guy.
at half a button (n.) under button, n.4
[US] 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.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 151: It has been said that he is also a chiba, an informer.
at chiba, n.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 135: I’m being set up, he thought. Jesus H. Christ.
at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 75: We are [...] victims of a thousand years of popery and Thomistic claptrap.
at clap-trap, n.1
[US] E. Torres Q&A 90: When we left the room, you and Nancy went into a heavy clinch, right?
at clinch, n.
[US] E. Torres Q&A 111: So he’s in the closet.
at in the closet under closet, n.
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