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The Cocaine Kids choose

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[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 87: She asked me whose baby Benz that was.
at baby Benz (n.) under baby, adj.
[US] (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.
[US] (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
[US] (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.
[US] (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 108: There was nothing but baseheads wanting another hit.
at basehead (n.) under base, n.1
[US] (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
[US] (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
[US] (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 106: The Kids rarely went to base houses.
at basehouse (n.) under base, n.1
[US] (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
[US] (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
[US] (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
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: beamin getting high on cocaine.
at beaming, n.
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (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.
[US] (con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 44: He was showing everybody he was Mister Big Time.
at big time, n.1
[US] (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.
[US] (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
[US] (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.
[US] (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
[US] (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
[US] (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.
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