1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 110: I’m a cheap shotter in a way.at cheap shotter, n.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 118: Playing pro ball, he said, was also a grind.at pro, adj.
1974 R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 121: I was in a fight and I threw a big roundhouse.at roundhouse, n.
1974 R. Blount About Three Bricks Shy of a Load [title].at three bricks shy of a load (adj.) under three, adj.