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[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 81: Fifty Hoods would be around in ten minutes tearing ass of us.
at tear arse, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 96: I’m ready to haul-ass back upstairs.
at haul ass, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 21: Everybody hits him [...] He’s the punching bag for the whole neighborhood.
at punching bag, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 99: She bitches him out forty different ways.
at bitch someone out (v.) under bitch, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 84: He figures to keep everything in his cellar. Me, Gimpy and Ramon don’t bite on that.
at bite, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 107: Maybe he’s hiding, or blowing some weed.
at blow, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 25: Gimpy just looks at him [...] ‘He’s boiled,’ Lubo says.
at boiled, adj.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 94: There’s thirteen dollars in my pocket and we burned it all up on the rides.
at burn up, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 57: You should have taken Lubo on and busted him down.
at bust, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 104: This Slick passes at Ella. I got to call him on it and I do.
at call, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 99: He chucks Crazy [...] he chucks Thelma too.
at chuck, v.2
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 106: I light a clincher and go to the door.
at clincher, n.2
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 29: The winos are coasting.
at coast, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 3: ‘What’s cooking?’ he says. ‘Nothing but the asphalt.’.
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 96: He [...] shot the crap out of him.
at crap, the, phr.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 5: I don’t want to fight this crip.
at crip, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 69: All I see is fists coming. I hit the deck.
at deck, n.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 86: A cat gets up [...] He’s feeling good, singing.
at feel good (v.) under feel, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 99: She bitches him out forty different ways.
at forty ways from the jack (adv.) under forty, adj.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 81: This jalopy rambles down the street. It’s a real freakish machine. [Ibid.] 100: That Lubo is freakish.
at freakish, adj.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 2: I see how this Gimpy got his name. He’s a cripple.
at gimpy, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 47: That boy was hidiong the goods [...] But I don’t smoke weed.
at goods, n.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 13: They’re still dancing there. A slow number now. Everybody’s grinding.
at grind, v.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 47: This boy don’t know which way to turn. He ain’t in the groove.
at in the groove (adj.) under groove, n.2
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 39: What’s that Benny going to do, stay on it all night?
at on it, phr.2
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 5: Zoom, zoom, you hear cars licking past.
at lick, v.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 54: She’s got a mad shape in swim togs.
at mad, adj.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 89: She moves off, switching a mean tail.
at mean, adj.
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 46: He ain’t nothing but a mop handle.
at mopstick (n.) under mop, n.1
[US] ‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 103: That disc is off the walls. It’s square, period.
at off the wall, adj.
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