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[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 136: Well, I don’t give two fucks about your problems.
at not give a fuck, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 29: ‘Brenda,’ I yell, ‘what the arse happening down there?’.
at what the arse...? under arse, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending 2: If you are a tenant, you catch your arse forever.
at catch one’s arse under arse, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 136: Bah [...] I got enough on you to cxook your goose.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 26: I am not getting any younger and I cannot hustle pussy and scout the streets.
at hustle pussy (v.) under hustle, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 45: When the communication media tired lambasting the Blacks and the Paddies, they take a lag in Paki arse.
at take a lag in (v.) under lag, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 24: I know that if I didn’t play it cool, I would end up in a corner playing with Miss Palmer.
at Miss Palmer (n.) under Miss, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 137: What about the trafficking of illegal Paki immigrants?
at Paki, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 21: I hadn’t raised a black pussy since I was in England, being that white ones were more available.
at pussy, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending 4: Every Friday-please-God they shell over their respective rents.
at shell out (v.) under shell, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 26: After that glorious stroke with Brenda I got to thinking [...] it might not be a bad idea to have she available on the spot. Strokes aside, there was several duties she could perform.
at stroke, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 17: Bob had this great ambition to make a stroke with a black woman.
at have a stroke (at) (v.) under stroke, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending 37: Look, man, leave all that rarse and pay the people the money and let's blow this scene.
at blow the joint (v.) under blow, v.1
[WI] S. Selvon Moses Ascending 116: I even thought of dialling nine nine nine and ask them to send the booby wagon. And then, I tried to pull myself together.
at booby wagon (n.) under booby, n.1
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