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[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 190: I blasted then, really blew my wig!
at blast, v.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 237: I got a good mind to clear right out and leave your silly butt!
at butt, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 184: One of his women cooled him off with four or five airholes.
at cool off, v.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Not We Many’ in Black! (1996) 289: Yes, dopeys and drugmen.
at dopie, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 194: ‘Look at the way he’s lookin at happy-O,’ Papa John said. ‘Sorrow, men, sorrow! And the happy-O not knowin he’s bein fronted off.’.
at front off (v.) under front, v.2
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 268: Teese was in a profound, funk-filled quandary.
at funk, n.2
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 190: The young ‘ragheads,’ as he called them by dint of their habit of tying kerchiefs about their marcels to keep down sweat and protect the sheens.
at rag-head, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 204: He was kinda nice, and wasn’t tight on the moolah.
at moola, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 271: This surmise gave him a sudden impulse to whip out the Owlhead [...] But he quieted himself.
at owlhead, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 249: You tella that prune-puss Alice whatta I say, huh?
at pruneface (n.) under prune, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 195: Go over and see Carl-O the reefer man, and get about half a dozen joints.
at reefer man (n.) under reefer, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 236: Roy [...] made Ely a drink. ‘Take this,’ he said [...] ‘Get right with the world, man.’.
at get right (v.) under right, adj.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 182: Rev. Jones said, a bit accusingly, ‘I knew you’d say that.’ Teese fidgeted a little under the righteous stare.
at righteous, adj.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Not We Many’ in Black! (1996) 325: You think [...] you could get more’n a handful of people to throw ’way that hard work? Boy, shit!
at shit!, excl.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 194: I hate you like Hitler, man, but I wouldn’t snitch out on ya.
at snitch, v.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 223: That would really be something!
at something, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 255: What squash-head took a fifty-dollar play on one-a slip! What-a squash-head!
at squash, n.1
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 238: Only after he’d finished and yelled at her, ‘Right, stupid?’ did she speak.
at stupid, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 262: Twenty-five bucks! Is that all? Your sweet-man’ll blow that in ten minutes with one of his women!
at sweetman, n.
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 190: I blasted then, really blew my wig!
at blow one’s wig (v.) under wig, n.2
[US] C. Cooper Jr ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 183: ‘You mean old Horrible Hannah?’ the man of God yuk-yukked.
at yuk, v.
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