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False Starts 52: Of the four of us I was the most marginal, most rumlike, closest in style to the dingalings and fruiters who marched alone in O Company.at ding-a-ling, n.1
False Starts 52: Of the four of us I was the most marginal, most rumlike, closest in style to the dingalings and fruiters who marched alone in O Company. False Starts 361: An ace? That’s no hill for a stepper. A year ain’t shit.at ace, n.
False Starts 44: Everyone tried to avoid the hook to the barber shop, at least long enough to grow the beginning of a duckass.at duck’s arse, n.
False Starts 91: California’s the asshole of the universe.at asshole, n.
False Starts 72: I registered the unconscious contempt of the barkers for the Alvins and Clydes [...] fat silly sheep who thought it fun to be fleeced.at barker, n.1
False Starts 186: Those [...] who had jumped and been caught were getting the shit stomped out of them.at beat the shit out of, v.
False Starts 186: I was beefed under the section of rules and regs that ordered each inmate to wear a regulation haircut.at beef, v.1
False Starts 197: I had hoped for a three-split, eighteen months in and eighteen months out [...] Five-split was an average sentence for the time.at split bit (n.) under bit, n.1
False Starts 127: One more bust and they’ll bitch me.at bitch, v.
False Starts 146: They gave him a blanket party [...] they slipped up behind and threw a woolen blanket over his head, and anyone who felt mean jumped in and began to kick him.at blanket party (n.) under blanket, n.
False Starts 155: Across the mess hall we can see the blue Quentin population [...] The blacks were segregated in the mess hall.at blue, adj.6
False Starts 232: Worn blues and scuffed shoes.at blues, n.2
False Starts 235: Is he a gunsel boneroos and a reputation to protect?at bonaroos, n.
False Starts 44: We wore the same haircut as Marine boots, a chopped off stubble.at boot, n.2
False Starts 135: Wonder if I have enough brass for cup of coffee in the inmate canteen.at brass, n.1
False Starts 199: ‘Four days and a butt.’ The butt is your last morning.at butt, n.1
False Starts 328: You keep buttoned up and get back to camp.at buttoned up, adj.
False Starts 211: I know you’re capering [...] Do you want a partner?at caper, v.2
False Starts 10: My father found a new wife [...] a Catholic, who began to convert us all. My father called her a ‘cat licker.’.at cat-licker, n.
False Starts 52: We [...] kept between us a scrapbook filled with cheesecake.at cheesecake, n.
False Starts 341: A monstrous old Cadillac convertible—a cherry with only 45,000 miles on the clock.at cherry, n.1
False Starts 276: I chickened at the border.at chicken (out), v.
False Starts 53: You fuckin Choke lover, you better learn who your people are.at choke, n.2
False Starts 278: You coke up on those devil drugs.at coke up (v.) under coke, n.1
False Starts 125: Day com is used when the manager of a store, fearing robbery, wants to give the impression his safe is locked.at com, n.
False Starts 301: I bought myself [...] a big dark-blue Eldo.at El D, n.
False Starts 170: Rollie had been at Preston when I was there, in the Ding Company.at ding, n.2
False Starts 236: His victims were all over fifty. We had all heard of granny dodgers [...] but they were seldom really encountered.at granny-dodger, n.
False Starts 230: I wasn’t going for the okie-doke, I wasn’t going to stand around the yard talking Cadillacs and rolling Bull Durham.at okey-doke, n.2
False Starts 42: The tunic was the style worn by the doughboy.at doughboy, n.1
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