1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 331: ‘Would you feel better if I switched cells with you some night and let you get some reading?’ ‘They got cows in Texas?’.at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 196: Cool Breeze rapped shave-and-a-haircut-sixbits on the metal door.at shave-and-a-haircut, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 239: The police [...] put out APB’s on Caterpillar and Chilly.at a.p.b., n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 233: That’s why he’s such a big wheel. He’s holding aces.at hold aces (v.) under ace, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 202: When they learn that ain’t your action, there’s going to be a lot of suckers [...] hitting hard.at action, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 243: En gee [...] no fucking good. The loot came down on all my action.at action, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 298: ‘You’re looking for action, and Red’s laying to give you all you can handle.’ [...] ‘You think I bend over [...] for anything with a prick?’.at action, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 160: Every other stud you meet on the streets belongs to the bottles. They got four snitches on each block.at bottle (and stopper), n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 152: Red had attempted to block his rainhat into a style currently in vogue with pimps and hustlers called the Apple.at big apple, n.1
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 258: ‘You can’t be fucking around with no woman,’ Stick said severely.at fuck around, v.1
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 284: One of these nights I’m going to lock up and find some hairy-assed old bastard in there with me.at hairy-arsed, adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 30: There it is [...] The asshole of creation.at arsehole of the universe (n.) under arsehole, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 345: I seen her in the line [...] swishing and giggling, happy as a pig in shit.at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 28: Hell, I had to hustle like a one-armed paperhanger to keep myself straight.at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 31: ‘You get any good ass?’ Nunn grinned. ‘You horny old fart.’.at ass, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 15: You jus’ hold yore cool [...] They got an assload a time out in that cou’troom — all’s you got to do is back up and get it.at assload (n.) under ass, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (1977) 32: You look like you kicked an ass-wiper [i.e. heroin addiction].at ass-wiper, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 10: You did it [i.e. a sentence] the easiest way you could and hard-assed the difference.at hard-ass, v.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 5: It would still be a small price to pay to be rid of something [...] which had forced him to steal, not for wheels, women or money, but only as some sorry-assed symptom.at sorry-ass, adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 7: You’re making me horny again parading around pract’ly bare-assed.at bare-ass, adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 292: Right over their heads — just like a goddamned big-assed bird.at big-ass, adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 161: If you got your ass torn up every time you shot craps, after a while you’d put craps down and maybe try low ball.at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 12: He thought of them in terms of their crime: Two Checks, a Manslaughter, a Burglary, a Baby Raper.at baby-raper, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 24: Tight as he is I don’t think I get any backs at all, but he comes up with a twenny.at back, n.2
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 158: If it were a gambling debt, some bet you lost, I might lighten up. I write off a lot of bad paper.at bad paper (n.) under bad, adj.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 25: ‘I was with the girl and the man came in an shook me down. Held a knife on me.’ ‘That’s badger [...] Any fool with a broad can work that.’.at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 215: If he had us by the balls, he’d start pulling.at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 213: Six years ago I was still pretty ballsy.at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.