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[US] A. Sample (con. 1920s) Racehoss 30: ‘Oh Baby! don’t leave me here. Cum back an git me. Oh! if you please! Ada!! frum Decatur, the county seat a’ Wise. EIGHT! babies too soon!’.
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) A. Sample Racehoss 30: ‘Got eight for a point [...]’ ‘Oh Ada Ross was a pacin’ good hoss!’.
at Ada Ross, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. 1956-late 1950s) Racehoss 209: [H]e swooshed his aggie blade between the young cotton stalks plucking out the weeds.
at aggie, n.1
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 96: He was a one-handed white man [...] I couldn’t believe Emma let him touch her with that knub. Just the thought of it gave me the ‘all-overs’ .
at all-overs, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 161: He got a broom and began sweeping the severed sex organ up the alley.
at alley, n.1
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 86: Salvador emerged from the house carrying the hatchet, looking for us. When he came around the corner of the house, I let go with an ‘alley apple’ that caught him in the chest.
at alley apple (n.) under alley, n.1
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 177: ‘Boss, git them Gotdam drag-asses outta the way up thar an let this Number 1 squad cum by’.
at drag-ass, adj.
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 199: ‘I heard you nigguhs jes been drag-assin. [...] I’ma tellin you now, if ya’ll drag ‘em ol’ asses roun under me, I’m gon’ kill ya’.
at drag ass, v.
[US] (con. 1960s) A. Sample Racehoss 209: I’m gon bleeve ya’ll tryin to big-ass me.
at big-ass, v.
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 211: I stepped on out and regained the lead position, ‘Gitcha jive-ass back in line, Cap Rock!’.
at jive-ass, n.1
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1960s-early 1970s) Racehoss 260: Hollywood had suckassed Big Devil into believing he could help make us better.
at suck-ass, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 80: ‘Fuck you! You black-ass cheeken-chit sonaveech!’.
at black-ass, adj.
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 47: ‘Well, it’s gittin late, Puss. Guess I best be gittin on fo that damn ol’ man o’ mine thanks I’m off givin sump’n away’.
at give it away, v.
[US] A. Sample (con. 1940s-early 1950s) Racehoss 130: With one Summary, and two Special Court-martials under my belt, two-and a-half years later I had 150 days ‘bad time’ (lost time in the stockade), to make up before I could get discharged.
at bad time (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 155: Captain Mauldin [...] must have thought there was a need for him to come down alone [...] to establish that he was the man with the fuzzy balls and not Doc Cateye.
at man with the fuzzy balls (n.) under balls, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. 1920s) Racehoss 29: Involving herself in the whole game environment, when the players were bally-hooing an passing the bottle, she took her turn and got just as mean an ornery as the rest of them.
at ballyhoo, v.
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 38: After a short wait, the gamblers came and Saturday got kicked off with a bang.
at with a bang (adv.) under bang, n.1
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 79: He was way off base, as usual. She was tricking with Slim Linzy, definitely not Allen.
at off base (adj.) under base, n.2
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 41: She mellowed her intense gambling expression into a sexy, sleepy-eyed bedroom look, and flashed it to him like a lightning bug.
at bedroom, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. 1940s-early 1950s) Racehoss 130: With one Summary, and two Special Court-martials under my belt, two-and a-half years later I had 150 days ‘bad time’ (lost time in the stockade), to make up.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] A. Sample Racehoss 30: Gets ten for a point [...] ‘Oh, Big Ben!’.
at Big Ben, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. 1956-late 1950s) Racehoss 138: ‘Got you sum big time this time, didn’ you?’ ‘Yes suh.’ ‘Well, I’m gonna put yore yaller ass where you kin start doin sum uv it’.
at big time, n.2
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 39: If somebody wanted to give him two or four bits for his turn, well and good, but the players to his right were kept waiting.
at two bits, n.
[US] A. Sample (con. 1956-late 1950s) Racehoss 135: My mind was racing as the transfer truck, ‘Black Betty,’ slowly backed inside the gates of Retrieve, one of the twelve prison units comprising the Texas Prison System.
at black betty (n.) under black, adj.
[US] A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 82: Once she got started, the whiskey made her really blow it out. ‘I ain’ scaid of no muthafucka on earth!’.
at blow it out (v.) under blow out, v.2
[US] A. Sample (con. 1920s) Racehoss 25: He was a tall, good-looking black devil, so black his friends called him ‘Blue’.
at blue, adj.6
[US] (con. 1950s) A. Sample Racehoss 163: You [...] ack lak you ain’ never had no boar pussy before [HDAS].
at boar pussy (n.) under boar, n.1
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 166: ‘[S]um utha mule-dickted nigguh’s bogged up ta his belly in her rat now’.
at bog, v.1
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 174: The other bosses joshed Boss Deadeye, ‘Hey, Boss, is this heah that nigguh whut broke ‘em scales wit all ‘at cotton this mornin?’ .
at boss, n.2
[US] A. Sample (con. late 1950s-early 1960s) Racehoss 235: ‘[T]hat ol’ nigguh frum Ramsey kin pick pretty good. I tell you one thang, that man sho been a braggin on you’.
at brag on, v.
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