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[US] in C. Carr Our Town (2006) 109: Don’t make this mistake. I’ll give ’em the limit.
at limit, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 283: ‘The judicial system ain’t worth a fuck,’ she concluded.
at not worth a fuck, phr.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 257: It seemed that the Wizard was something of a con artist.
at con-artist, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 86: ‘He came all the way from Birmingham, Alabama,’ Larry went on, ‘just to hang those stupid big-lipped rughead wide-eyed bigmouth niggers.’.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 215: Ferguson – he was the big wheel [i.e. in the Ku Klux Klan].
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 272: ‘A little bitty group like ours,’ Thompson said.
at bitty, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 268: The Kluxer announced [...] ‘It says in the Bible, shoot ’em,’ so, he concluded, ‘if you shoot queers and race mixers, you got His blessing. You earn Brownie points.’.
at brownie point, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 280: These goddamn nigger bucks come in, and they was gonna overthrow everything.
at buck, n.1
[US] C. Carr Our Town 302: She was discouraged about this topic. ‘I call it bummed out. Like you can’t have an effect, so why try?’.
at bummed (out), adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 337: ‘What would have happened if you’d told the Klan the story?’ ‘I’d have been bumped off,’ Willie declared.
at bump (off), v.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 260: I might borrow the ‘catchy title’ they’d just given their new newsletter.
at catchy, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 272: He stood there in his white robe and hood, ignoring the little kid who kept coming up to say ‘Hi, Conehead’.
at conehead, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 93: Back in 1963. After they passed the civil rights, stating coonheads were allowed to date the whites. [Ibid.] 260: Their next rally — Fort Wayne, ‘on the Coon’s birthday’ — was shaping up to be even worse.
at coon, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 265: He complained that the police had done a ‘crappy job and pulled a lot of violations of people’s civil rights today’.
at crappy, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 315: But a fifteen-year-old boy – he’s gonna cut from his eighteen-and nineteen-year-old buddies? He’s gonna cut the scene and leave it?
at cut, v.2
[US] C. Carr Our Town 63: The ‘mackeral snappers’ owed their loyalty to ‘the dago on the Tiber’.
at dago, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 280: These goddamn nigger bucks come in, and they was gonna overthrow everything.
at god-damn, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 87: I was [...] seeing how these dingo junglebunnies was jumping around from tree to tree wishing to get to the banana. [Ibid.] 88: Remembering that he was trying to impress me with his racism, he shouted [to a black child] ‘Hey, don’t stick your dingo paws on my flags!’.
at dinge, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 358: The Dragon estimated [...] that was ‘a bargain when you consider the billions and billions of dollars this country wastes on rinky-dink countries’.
at rinky-dink, adj.2
[US] C. Carr Our Town 292: They found dope in Jeff’s house! Dope! Marijuana!
at dope, n.1
[US] C. Carr Our Town 278: ‘Slant-eyed son-of-a-bitchin’ gooks that you was paid a few bucks to kill and the son-of-a-bitches beat you back home!’ he fumed.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 274: ‘Stand around and get your ass beat because you’re white — that ain’t gonna go,’ he scowled with outrage.
at go, v.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 278: ‘Slant-eyed son-of-a-bitchin’ gooks that you was paid a few bucks to kill and the son-of-a-bitches beat you back home!’ he fumed.
at gook, n.3
[US] C. Carr Our Town 272: Thompson let me know he was their ‘only college grad’.
at grad, n.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 284: ‘That’s right,’ Dusty concurred. ‘And hell, they come to his door, and he’d run ’em off.’.
at hell!, excl.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 90: I got a federal honky license!
at honkie, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 84: ‘Are you a Jewbaby?’ [Ibid.] 88: You come up and say, ‘I’m writing a book.’ They’ll go, ‘I don’t give a fuck, you fuckin’ Jewbaby.’.
at Jew baby (n.) under Jew, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 87: I was just setting back, relaxing and seeing how these dingo junglebunnies was jumping around from tree to tree wishing to get to the banana.
at jungle bunny (n.) under jungle, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 261: The two Berrys and a white male friend walked past a black man who was talking to a white woman. One of them said, ‘Jungle fever,’ then ‘used a racial slur’.
at jungle fever (n.) under jungle, adj.
[US] C. Carr Our Town 94: ‘Anybody kills a Klansman,’ he spit, ‘they better bend over, kiss their ass good-bye, because the Klan comes in this town, this town is gonna be fuckin’ leveled.’.
at kiss one’s ass goodbye (v.) under kiss, v.
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