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[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 118: I’m sittin’ over in a corner, blowin’ a Chesterfield.
at blow, v.1
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 118: Too many o’ them damn agents passin’ rubber around ’cause they done spent up all the musicians’ bread.
at rubber cheque, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 180: You’d better run over to my crib and stay there till I come.
at crib, n.1
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 158: Shit, he knew he was dap, had always been.
at dap, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 77: He wasn’t always layin’ on you with hippy-dip talk.
at hippy-dippy, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 93: I thought I was a hip paddy boy, like some of the kids you see around now in pegs and drapes.
at drape, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 183: Eff you, man.
at eff, v.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 135: Lay here on your ass and get your brains fried.
at fried, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 78: Do you dig, frig? Now do you understand? You white. It’s your world.
at frig, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 161: How in the eff are the pegs sellin’, you mother!
at fuck, the, phr.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 125: The cat goofed.
at goof, v.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 75: Look, man, can we take off our things and get some grease?
at grease, n.1
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 100: This crap is gettin’ down to the knitty-gritty here now.
at get down to the nitty-gritty (v.) under nitty-gritty, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 44: I don’t mean an ordinary preacher. He had all that bullshit behind his name, B.D. and D.D. Went to some seminary at Harvard. A real heavy cat.
at heavy, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 182: The headlines — BOP KING DIES OF ADDICTION.
at -king, sfx
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 159: ‘Later,’ Yards said [...] ‘See you,’ Eagle said.
at later, phr.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 40: That sweet-blowing Johnny Hodges who mauled an alto.
at maul, v.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 40: The mobbers caught his father shortchanging on hooch.
at mobster, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 118: They out tryin’ to make one nighters six and seven hundred miles apart.
at one-nighter, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 154: Sure was a nothing chick in bed too.
at nothing, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 48: But now Eagle, even half-zonked, knew something was wrong.
at zonked (out), adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 153: How’s he makin’ it with his paddy chick?
at paddy, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 93: I thought I was a hip paddy boy, like some of the kids you see around now in pegs and drapes.
at peg, n.1
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 187: You goddamn right you ain’t one of my boys, you with your ricky-tick-ass guitar playin’.
at ricky-tick, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 68: He can wail when he’s right, but he ain’t consistent any more.
at right, adj.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 125: Let’s go in and wrap our rubies around some cold beer.
at ruby, n.2
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 176: Let’s make the bed scene again.
at scene, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 118: This cat ain’t sayin’ shit to nobody.
at shit, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 13: Play some of my sides for the man.
at side, n.
[US] J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 63: ‘That mother,’ Eagle grunted. ‘Always suckin’ around.’.
at suck around (v.) under suck, v.1
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