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[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 80: ‘Want to get high?’ he said. ‘Does a bear shit in the woods?’ I replied.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 81: Don’t be surprised if she changes her mind. A whole lotta young chicks think they wanna turn tricks.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 60: Anybody’d nail that piece of shit is aces with me.
at aces, adj.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 114: A ‘bottle and stopper on the hammer and tack,’ means there’s a copper on your back.
at bottle (and stopper), n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 114: A ‘bottle and stopper on the hammer and tack,’ means there’s a copper on your back.
at hammer and tack, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 292: It was 9.45 when we turned the corner and saw several black and whites, roof lights spinning bright.
at black and white, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 280: You know what, I think that parole officer has some kind of sexual hangup ... probably can’t get any.
at any, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 114: ‘Roses and reds’ is the bed.
at roses (are) red, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 367: He had certainly carried my clumsy ass on the handball court more than once.
at carry someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 351: Reading Dostoesvsky was like listening to someone foaming and overwrought as they told stories about the souls of human beings.
at foaming (at the mouth), phr.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 323: The second psychiatrist was a café au lait black man.
at café au lait, adj.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 268: Ronnie had lots of money from hanging bad paper.
at bad paper (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 236: Eventually they sold grams in balloons.
at balloon, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 280: Oh man, for a twenty-three-year-old, state-raised convict, I had life by the balls.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 145: Nelson had taken revenge for when I pulled off his gas mask and belted him in the chops.
at belt, v.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 143: Now I was in the ‘Big House,’ as someone called it in a movie.
at big house, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 274: I got in the car and fired up a fat joint called a bomber.
at bomber, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 367: A convict was assigned as a ‘fire watch’. It was known as a bonaroo job. Whoever had it, had the run of the huge old building.
at bonaroo, adj.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 285: He was a hard core tough guy to the bone.
at to the bone (adv.) under bone, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 48: Legend had it that they made their bones taking out Bugsy Siegel.
at make one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 87: The street hustlers, pimps, confidence men, whores, gamblers and boosters who paid off the vice.
at booster, n.2
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 311: We’ll teach you to run, fuckhead . . . shit for brains bastard.
at shit-for-brains, adj.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 337: Folsom has had bloodbath breaks.
at break, n.2
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 131: The tank trusty came out of the first cell and headed down the run. ‘Hey, Bunk, you better go. That bull is an asshole.’.
at bull, n.5
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 283: The bailiffs closed in and took me to the bullpen beside the courtroom.
at bullpen, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 87: The street hustlers, pimps, confidence men, whores, gamblers and boosters who paid off the vice and bunco details.
at bunco, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 110: He took the payoff and gave it to the bunco squad.
at bunco squad (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 370: I escaped all those perverts. Nobody got my bung hole.
at bunghole, n.1
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 252: I told him if it [i.e. heroin] was bunk why in Mary’s name did he shoot it all.
at bunk, n.2
[US] E. Bunker Mr Blue 52: The LAPD were trying to bury him.
at bury, v.
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