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[US] P. Beatty Tuff 6: Rude, Kooky, Shorty-Wop, Point Blank — right there’s my ace Fariq.
at ace, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 188: You got any of him when he was dark-skinned and had a nose and ’fro?
at afro, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 242: Arnello put a fist to his lips and blew into his air bugle. ‘Dit doot dit doot ditooo. Charge!’.
at air guitar (n.) under air, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 125: Carter was all over Tuffy. ‘Nigger, you so fat, you jumped into the sky and got stuck. Motherfucker, you so big, you wear pillow cases for socks.’.
at all over, adj.2
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 135: Where are you going? What are you planning to see / Have you thought about Alphabet City, or the Botanical Gardens?
at Alphabet City, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 105: To her left a hedgerow of salt-and-pepper Afros crowning the heads of Winston’s father and his Panther cronies.
at salt-and-pepper, adj.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 17: Watching children flick skelly caps over the sidewalk epitaphs where so-and-so’s nigger got dropped.
at so-and-so, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 224: A luscious, dark black, hard-ass gospel body.
at hard-ass, adj.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 151: He’d be left standing alone [...] The Fourth Stooge assed out like a motherfucker.
at ass out under ass, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 150: By [...] accepting Inez’s money he’s made a half-ass commitment to his life.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 143: It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.
at where one is at, phr.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 74: You call a moreno you don’t know Papi, B, or G, but Puerto Ricans is strictly B, whether you know them or not.
at B, n.5
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 155: Everyone agreed, reaching for their beer cans [...] mulling over which of the identical cans belonged to whom, their hands circling over the cluster of containers, wary of picking up someone else’s backwash.
at backwash (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 14: Remember the cat-ass punk you beat down last week.
at beat down, v.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 164: That ain’t nothing new. It’s basically the chloroform dog-snatching bit.
at bit, n.1
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 7: When some niggers do come in blasting, your big ass be in the way and shit, two, three motherfuckers can hide behind you.
at blast, v.1
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 207: I don’t need the money, of course, I do it for the blasted thrill.
at blasted, adj.1
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 70: When five-o blow up the spot, they treat the white boys like day campers.
at blow up, v.1
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 111: When y’all used to bogart my tape deck, I liked that nigger’s music.
at bogart, v.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 244: That nigger’s eyes was rolling back in his head before Tuffy put the boot to him.
at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 150: I can think of something worse than being booty-busted [...] Having a dick in your ass and one in your mouth!
at bust some booty (v.) under booty, n.2
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 143: The appropriate amount of bounce was applied to his diddy-bop, just enough spring in his step to rock his torso and head in an autistic half-beat.
at diddy-bop, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 12: Some, like the young man [...] diddy-bopping against the foot traffic, had surrendered to the streets.
at diddy-bop, v.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 8: You still here because you couldn’t leave without me, your so-called boy.
at boy, n.3
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 125: Carter breaking on Tuffy so hard he has to stop and catch his breath.
at break on (v.) under break, v.1
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 44: Yo, it’s brick out there today. Cold as hell.
at brick, adj.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 87: You hear this nigger, brother man. How much you think them rims is worth?
at brotherman (n.) under brother, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 36: He didn’t embellish [...] his exploits, talking in pipe-dream slang about him and the crew ‘coming up,’ ‘blowing up,’ ‘bubbling,’ and ‘living large’.
at bubbling, n.2
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 83: ‘Mommy, what happened?’ ‘Uh, nothing, bubeleh. Everything’s fine.’.
at bubele, n.
[US] P. Beatty Tuff 63: ‘Okay, picture this: Cap’n Crunch — the Movie.’ ‘What? The cereal, yo? You buggin’,’ Nadine said, tapping her index finger on her temple.
at bugging, adj.2
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