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[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 75: If she was going to treat him like a no-account nigger, he was going to act like one.
at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 75: Everybody looked so clean and wholesome and apple-pie good.
at apple pie, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 227: Draft-dodging lard-ass.
at lard-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 68: Shake your ass, honey. We haven’t got all night.
at shake one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 68: I don’t know who, but some big deal’s got his finger in this pie.
at big deal, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 67: She’s twice as smart as the bimbos here think she is.
at bimbo, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 8: He’d paid his four bits.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 185: Hold tight, hold tight. / I bite all night.
at bite, v.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 17: What’s the matter, Blondie? You a dinge queen?
at blondie, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 93: Bohunkus Americanus.
at bohunk, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 104: Your bone’s gonna tear a hole in your pants.
at bone, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 9: A sudden smell of cologne, sweet and boozey.
at boozy, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 73: One good bop. Put that nigger back in his place.
at bop, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 203: ‘They arrested your loverboy back there.’ ‘He ain’t no loverboy. He just likes to get fucked.’.
at lover-boy, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 73: That big old stevedore [...] settles for nothing less than the deep, brown eye.
at brown eye, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 96: I’d brown a dead mule before I let you lay one cracker hand on my black butt.
at brown, v.3
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 182: He’s gonna be riled I gave him the brush.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 193: A few queens roused themselves for a final round of camping.
at camp, n.2
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 133: Don’t think I’m some pencil-pushing milquetoast.
at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 99: That queen treats her cherry like it was a diamond.
at cherry, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 156: That circus queen was sure one sick woman.
at circus queen (n.) under circus, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 189: Navy kicked you out for cocksucking.
at cocksucking, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 145: The conked hair beneath the pomade felt coarse.
at conked, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 72: He’s out getting his cookies off in Japland.
at get one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 135: We haven’t seen each other in a coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 17: Don’t go eyeballing me, Willie Cornbread.
at cornbread, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 19: ‘You’re crapping me!’ ‘Am I ever, honey.’.
at crap, v.2
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 15: The man was cut, so there was a round head with eaves and a smooth stalk to tongue.
at cut, adj.4
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 17: What’s the matter, Blondie? You a dinge queen?
at dinge queen (n.) under dinge, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 19: You don’t dig dinge. That’s okay. I don’t dig crackers.
at dinge, n.
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