1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 48: When Masterrap missed an appointment with his girlfriend he came back to the apartment and said he wanted a ‘hit’ because the girl was ‘messing him around’.at mess about, v.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 86: You gotta go legit, at least for a minute. You gotta go ‘state of fresh,’ all the way live, if you wanna do anything worthwhile out here.at all the way live, adj.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 55: They are hooked in some kinda way to the life, the excitement, the nickel-and-diming.at nickel-and-dime, v.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 112: So, sure to hell, he tells me I wasn’t shit, that I was fucking around.at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 73: The only reason he said that was because I was making plenty of money and his ass was dragging the ground.at drag one’s ass, v.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 87: She asked me whose baby Benz that was.at baby Benz (n.) under baby, adj.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 9: At the wholesale level, ‘transporters’ move large amounts across state lines to prearranged locations, where a ‘babysitter’ may keep watch over them.at babysitter, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 19: He told me to go to this spot with him. He said he needed some back [i.e. backup or help] and he didn’t have anybody.at back, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: baggie bags plastic bags used in packaging cocaine and other drugs; also called ‘Sear-a-Meals’.at baggie, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 108: There was nothing but baseheads wanting another hit.at basehead (n.) under base, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 33: At about five a.m. they wanted to base and shit, and I knew Max didn’t base either.at base, v.2
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 41: It’s hurting me because people don’t want to pay two hundred dollars for a gram of pure rock, but they wanna base up the best stuff.at base, v.2
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 106: The Kids rarely went to base houses.at basehouse (n.) under base, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 109: Basers – alone or in groups – appear to talk or interact much less than do snorters.at baser (n.) under base, v.2
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 5: Some 80 percent of those who use the drug are now smoking it in the form of ‘base’ or ‘crack’. [Ibid.] 41: I’m getting a lot of customers who now only want that base; they don’t want the rock no more, they want the stuff already cooked.at base, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: base crazies a kind of hallucination that leads an individual to search for the smallest particle of cocaine or crack in the mistaken belief that they have lost some of the residue; also called ‘picking’.at base crazies (n.) under base, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: basing smoking cocaine base; ‘dry’ (or ‘wet’) basing refer to absence (or presence) of liquid in the pipe.at basing, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 110: Others prefer a bazuca, in which the drug is sprinkled on cigarettes or joints and smoked.at bazuca, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: beamin getting high on cocaine.at beaming, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 39: One response to freebase buyers’ increasing demand for purer and purer cocaine was a proliferation of dealers and con men (‘beat artists’) purporting to sell the real thing.at beat artist (n.) under beat, v.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 18: I know I fucked up and made some vicious mistakes when I was behind the scale.at behind the scale (n.) under behind, prep.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: beiging chemically altering the cocaine so that it looks brownish, for those who think this indicates purity.at beiging, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 37: He promised me he was going to get the big thing [a kilo] and I told Kitty to tell him I’d be waiting. I told him I didn’t have no front, and he said it was OK.at big thing, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 44: He was showing everybody he was Mister Big Time.at big time, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 101: You know, Chillie wants to be big shit all the time now.at big shit, n.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 87: Most of these sneaker bitches is looking to get skied, not looking for knowledge.at bitch, n.1
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 87: To him, slang is an event, like a dance step, a movement, a gestural display; a linguistic happening for other teenagers. But they, too, have to command a unique presence, not just ‘bite’ his style.at bite, v.
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 83: What I don’t like is when he says he’s going out for business and gets all dressed up and comes home blasted.at blasted, adj.2
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 133: On the corner of 162nd Street, three boys and two girls shout to me [...] ‘got that coke, got that crack, got red caps, got blues, got yellow ones – you choose. What you want, my friend? What you need?’.at blues, n.2
1989 (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 56: There are many beat artists selling bogus drugs in these copping zones, so buyers will remain loyal to an honest dealer.at bogus, adj.