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[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 204: The general public came to think of him as a candy-ass.
at candy-ass, n.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 109: ‘You just piss people off.’ He said, ‘Well I don’t mean it. Bruce, you’re always giving me the hard-ass.’.
at give someone the hard ass (v.) under hard-ass, n.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: There’s a big difference betwen a black man and one of those big jungle boogers.
at booger, n.3
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 110: I’m a cheap shotter in a way.
at cheap shotter, n.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 109: Bergey’s a clothesline guy. [...] He does little goofy shit. A guy recovers a fumble and Bergey’ll push him.
at clothesline, v.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 214: ‘Cold-blooded,’ or ‘cold,’ was a term of radical approval among the players, as in ‘this cheese is cold-blooded,’ or ‘“Twilight Zone” is cold’.
at cold, adj.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 200: Games make very crude drama indeed, because they boil down to root, hog or die, to the too-simple concept of ‘victory’ and to people trying to hurt each other in order to gain selfish ends.
at root, hog or die, v.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 103: I went up against this big kid who was a senior. He ate my cookies.
at eat someone’s cookies (v.) under eat, v.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 87: I kept going, foggy as hell.
at foggy, adj.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 18: Are you just jagging me off, or do you mean that?
at jag off, v.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘They call it Plywood now,’ he said, ‘because so many places are boarded up. And in those alleys there’s some motherfucking going on. You got to take a stick.’.
at motherfucking, n.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 214: I’d be lying if I said he doesn’t tick me off sometimes.
at tick off, v.2
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 118: Playing pro ball, he said, was also a grind.
at pro, adj.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 121: I was in a fight and I threw a big roundhouse.
at roundhouse, n.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 56: Jeez, he’s such a specimen.
at specimen, n.
[US] R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load [title].
at three bricks shy of a load (adj.) under three, adj.
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