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The Big Rumble choose

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[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 29: You got no boys. No gang. You gonna try to cop a plea? Huh? No chance.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 57: I’ve watched you come and go every day, but waiting for you to come across is for the birds.
at come across, v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 70: I left some aerials under a stoop a block away, this aft.
at aft, n.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 27: He let one go right in Larry’s face. Larry didn’t bat an eye about it.
at not bat an eye(lid), v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 111: Whatever they scrounged knocking off parking meters and vending machines in other parts of town was penny ante.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 34: I was Big Tony’s bam. Yeah, before he was busted by the fuzz I was his deb.
at bam, n.3
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 116: Larry felt hung-up, completely beat, holed with no way out, treed with no way down.
at beat, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 92: We’re digging that Youth Board biggie together this aft, reet?
at biggie, n.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 57: I’ve watched you come and go every day, but waiting for you to come across is for the birds.
at for the birds under bird, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 82: [They] all kept their eyes on Larry as if they expected him to blast them. ‘You got that heater with ya tonight?’.
at blast, v.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 83: The chunky blob stood there at a loss.
at blob, n.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 108: Who needs his nose boogies?
at boogie, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 85: You guys wanna bop? Is that what you want? War?
at bop, v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 68: Donald told him that Crutch was an old bopper himself.
at bopper, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 109: Next time I’ll break you both up, you fight in my store.
at break up, v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 30: Breeze now, coolie. Cut out and be damned.
at breeze, v.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 27: He was known as Pepsi because he could burp whenever he felt like it.
at burp, v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 34: I was Big Tony’s bam. Yeah, before he was busted by the fuzz I was his deb.
at bust, v.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 96: Big Tony is plannin’ to go down on one of us. He’s gonna order a rumble from the cage at State-O.
at cage, n.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 69: That girl. The gang ‘cake’.
at cake, n.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 58: ‘What should I tell you is that I’m a real cat. But you’d find out soon enough — I’m not.’ ‘But you like cat food, don’t ya?’.
at cat food (n.) under cat, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 34: I thought you’d catch on. Can’t you dig it?
at catch on, v.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 108: You gonna punk out on me again. I thought ya got over punkin’ out the last time! [...] I want no vice-president talkin’ cheesy!
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 30: You ain’t the cheesy type.
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 56: Theirs was 8-D, where Mike had evicted a ‘den of cokies’ as he called them.
at cokie, n.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 116: Had the bartender conned. He was ready to fork over when some goddam fool mopping the floor started swingin’ the mop at me.
at conned, adj.
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 81: ‘Hey, what’s cookin’?’ [...] ‘You had your chance.’.
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 29: ‘There’s a cool on. Isn’t there? An armistice?’ ‘How long you figure this cool between the Scratchers and the Spiders is gonna last?’.
at cool, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 9: Even as a non-gang member, a coolie, he knew the mark of the Spiders.
at coolie, n.2
[US] E. De Roo Big Rumble 61: When things are crackin’, I get a chance for tips waitin’ on tables.
at cracking, adj.
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