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[US] R. Price Lush Life 209: Rikers-based Five Percenters, Brooklyn-based jihadists .
at 5% Nation, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 304: I’m a whack-a-doo! I’m a whack-a-doo! I got sent to the psycho doctor .
at whack-a-doo, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 209: Sputnik and Skeezix, two Alphabet City detectives who had burned him in a drug deal.
at Alphabet City, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 127: I was scared [...] I was off-my-ass drunk too .
at off one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 81: So he didn’t comment at all. Maybe to his asshole buddy Steve .
at asshole buddy (n.) under asshole, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 443: If you continue to bail on them like this [...] it’s gonna be bad .
at bail on, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 294: CP... CP one? CP five? Ballpark...
at ball-park figure (n.) under ball-park, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 231: I’m freezing my balls off just looking at you guys .
at balls, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 39: Three whites males, after a couple of hours barhopping, last stop Cafe Berkmann on Rivington and Norfolk .
at bar-hop, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 87: You damn well knew right off the bat exactly who Ike was with last night, right?
at right off the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[US] R. Price Lush Life 39: A cop beaned with a marble up in Harlem .
at bean, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 199: ‘Nigger never get no dugout now.’ ‘I get bookoo dugout,’ Tristan said.
at beaucoup, adj.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 24: Half of them got snatched up by RICO for long bids, the other hallf is dead .
at bid, n.2
[US] R. Price Lush Life 272: He’d just stepped on his dick big-time .
at big-time, adv.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 27: I’m thinking let’s snatch us a head out here, take the kibble,, go up there.
at kibbles & bits, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 141: Words [...] as meaningless and blithery as whatever was coming out of the television .
at blithery (adj.) under blither, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 327: It’s bad enough i catch one of my staff blowing up, but then she doesn’t even offer me a bump .
at blow, v.1
[US] R. Price Lush Life 18: Berkmann’s was empty, delivered from the previous night’s overpacked boozy freneticness .
at boozy, adj.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 316: ‘Why am I bracing you?’ ‘’Cause [...] I’m a plátano from the PJs’.
at brace, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 152: Little Dap saw Tristan go all stiff and bughouse .
at go bughouse (v.) under bughouse, adj.1
[US] R. Price Lush Life 98: He had the cloudy red complexion of a stew bum .
at stew bum, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 283: Then Cleveland here [...] bum-rushed the guy out the door himself .
at bumrush, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 30: Like he’s my automatic mastermind on a caper .
at caper, n.2
[US] R. Price Lush Life 46: A tall husky carrothead, his long frizzy hair pulled back in a bushy ponyail .
at carrothead (n.) under carrot, n.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 8: Lugo [finds] a fat roll of twenties. ‘This is a lot of cheddar, cuz’.
at cheddar, n.2
[US] R. Price Lush Life 127: But then Ike, Ike goes and gets all chesty about it [...] And then I think he started to go for the guy .
at chesty, adj.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 123: Terrific reader [..] Unhappy tables, cokey waiters, who’s passing by out there .
at cokey, adj.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 30: Why don’t you just go to a couple corner boys [...] Say you collecting for Big Dap .
at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
[US] R. Price Lush Life 171: ‘You don’t think the police need and occasional sticking to?’ ‘Cut the crap’ .
at cut the crap, v.
[US] R. Price Lush Life 57: A five-man crash pad in Cobble Hill, an Our Gang, pot-stanky garden apartment .
at crash-pad, n.
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