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[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 63: Neither of us had ever gone on an AR before.
at A.R., n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 63: I made another date with Maria thinking [...] this time I was going to go all the way.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 123: Then it would really begin to get hot and heavy.
at hot and heavy, phr.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 259: The asshole screws are too fuckin’ scared to come on to the ward.
at arsehole, adj.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 213: Ulla [...] had just broken up with her gangster friend, Simon, who had used her mostly as a punching bag.
at punching bag, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 25: Little Red’s wisecracks about the guard’s wife balling the night shift while he was at work.
at ball, v.3
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 154: The two rascals disappeared [...] emerging a moment later balls naked.
at balls naked, adj.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 111: The early hours of Saturday morning saw me barrelling down a lonely, snow-swept highway in a hot car.
at barrel, v.2
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 269: He was also quick to anger, as one of the belly robbers in the joint kitchen found out.
at belly burglar (n.) under belly, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 130: graduated from the reformatory to the big house with honours.
at big house, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 35: The so-called wheels with their convoy of followers were easy to spot.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 24: There was an exchange of papers and the gate swung wide allowing the Maria to roll triumphantly in.
at Black Maria, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 23: OK, boys, Mother Goose sent me over to collect your blocks for refuelling.
at block, n.5
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 224: I think I saw someone on the blower when I came in.
at blower, n.2
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 124: Later on, when Dad’s bootlegging business boomed, the trips were done for the quiet pleasure of getting away.
at bootleg, v.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 44: Bossing the Buller at that time was a legendary guard by the name of Sergeant Tracy.
at boss, v.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 265: All the while I remained in the isolation box, I remembered all the old man had told me.
at box, n.1
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 145: Lounging on the yard and shooting the breeze.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 239: After I had busted out of the county bucket in Saint John the staff there didn’t want me around any more.
at bucket, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 233: I was frantic! My dreams were bugging me again.
at bug, v.2
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 256: Bloated on bug juice [...] Morris slurred, ‘Why wait ’til later, ol’ buddy?’.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 55: The biggest guy [...] spat on Rocko’s hand, snarling ‘Bugger off!’.
at bugger off, v.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 885: You’re not getting me on some bug ward so you can stick some wires in my head.
at bughouse, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 43: The legendary Bull Gang, a segregated unit within the institution that harboured fifty or sixty of the toughest and most desperate prisoners in Canada.
at bull gang (n.) under bull, n.1
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 230: He apologised for the bum luck with the Brink’s truck.
at bum, adj.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 21: Two minutes after the morning light came on a guy was out of bed or he got the bum’s rush to the cooler.
at bum’s rush, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 215: I gave him the bum’s rush up the stairs and out of the apartment.
at bum’s rush, n.
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 299: The bushwackers were everywhere, including the rooftops, with high powered rifles!
at bushwhacker, n.1
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 111: With relief I saw that none of my bones were busted.
at busted, adj.1
[Can] R. Caron Go-Boy! 137: A butt wouldn’t finish rolling on the ground before it was scooped up and hoarded by some nicotine fiend.
at butt, n.1
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