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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 239: The police [...] put out APB’s on Caterpillar and Chilly.
at a.p.b., n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 243: En gee [...] no fucking good. The loot came down on all my action.
at action, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 258: ‘You can’t be fucking around with no woman,’ Stick said severely.
at fuck around, v.1
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 30: There it is [...] The asshole of creation.
at arsehole of the universe (n.) under arsehole, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 31: ‘You get any good ass?’ Nunn grinned. ‘You horny old fart.’.
at ass, n.
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (1977) 32: You look like you kicked an ass-wiper [i.e. heroin addiction].
at ass-wiper, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 7: You’re making me horny again parading around pract’ly bare-assed.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 292: Right over their heads — just like a goddamned big-assed bird.
at big-ass, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 82: You still putting out them withered backs of yours?
at backs, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 213: Six years ago I was still pretty ballsy.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 206: How did Turnipseed get so badly banged up?
at banged up, adj.1
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