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[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Sweet Talk’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 123: We were made for celluloid – beautifully chiseld are we, not to mention well-buffed.
at buffed, adj.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Sweet Talk’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 125: Eddie is a shithead.
at shithead, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Mississippi Ham Rider’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 50: ‘I’m beat and burnt-out, I mean it,’ he wailed.
at burned out, adj.1
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Mississippi Ham Rider’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 51: He wasn’t the least knocked out by [...] your long, lean gams?
at gam, n.1
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Mississippi Ham Rider’ Gorilla, My Love (1972) 56: I don’t sing no nappy-head church songs.
at nappy-headed (adj.) under nappy head, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Mississippi Ham Rider’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 49: This jive mother who is my boss thinks he can make some bread by recording some of the old-timers.
at motherfucker, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘The Hammer Man’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 42: He was in some kind of big house for people who lose their marbles.
at big house, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘The Hammer Man’ Gorilla, My Love (1972) 40: He’s gonna be Mister Basketball when he grows up.
at Mr, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Maggie of the Green Bottles’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 152: All those wise-alecky responses I gave.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Talking Bout Sonny’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 83: Women get on my ass. Truly.
at get (on) someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Playing with Punjab’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 70: I got this boss place [...] for four beans you can move right in and everything’s yours.
at bean, n.1
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Playing with Punjab’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 71: Hot in all the usual ways, but no jitterbugging.
at jitterbug, v.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Playing with Punjab’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 71: The realer type people who get right out there in the street with all the jitterbugs and take your side against the landlords and the cops.
at jitterbug, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Talking Bout Sonny’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 80: You’re too damned dead, that’s what. A bottle-tipping vegetable mother.
at mother, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara Gorilla, My Love (1972) 15: We shut up and watch the simple ass picture.
at -ass, sfx
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird’ Gorilla, My Love (1972) 131: ‘Now, aunty,’ Camera said, pointin the thing straight at her. ‘Your mama and I are not related.’.
at aunt, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Raymond’s Run’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 32: I have a big rep as the baddest thing around.
at baddest (adj.) under bad, adj.
[US] T.C. Bambara Gorilla, My Love (1972) 16: He’s oily and pasty [...] like the bad guy in the serial.
at bad guy (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Raymond’s Run’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 32: I’m smiling to beat the band.
at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Raymond’s Run’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 29: He’s got no right to call me Squeaky, if I can’t call him Beanstalk.
at beanstalk, n.1
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘My Man Bovanne’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 8: She was a chub-chub like me and not very pretty.
at chubbo, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘My Man Bovanne’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 7: Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin’ with the blind dude?
at grind, v.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Raymond’s Run’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 25: Someone’s liable to [...] ask him where he got that great big pumpkin head.
at pumpkin head, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Raymond’s Run’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 28: The parkees unfolding chairs.
at parky, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara Gorilla, My Love (1972) 19: Watcha mean, Peaches?
at peaches, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘My Man Bovanne’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 9: Tomorrow’s dinner [...] is goin to be a grand thing proper.
at proper, adv.
[US] T.C. Bambara Gorilla, My Love (1972) 16: Me in the parlor trying to do my arithmetic yellin Shut it off.
at shut off! (excl.) under shut, v.
[US] T.C. Bambara Gorilla, My Love (1972) 18: You better not come up with [...] and other trickified business.
at trickified (adj.) under trickie, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘Basement’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 142: He oughta be strung up by the short hairs.
at short and curlies, n.
[US] T.C. Bambara ‘The Lesson’ in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 91: Who wants to know about your smelly-ass stationery.
at -ass, sfx
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