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Out of the Burning choose

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[US] (con. 1940s) I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 29: That bike is our pork and beans; ain’t no toy.
at pork and beans, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 123: Now drag ass home, all of you!
at drag ass, v.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 122: That’s bird turd till the court gives the word. You don’t search this joint without a big-ass warrant.
at big-ass, adj.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 22: He treated all the barflies in Slim Jim’s Café.
at bar-fly, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 122: That’s bird turd till the court gives the word. You don’t search this joint without a big-ass warrant.
at bird turd, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 12: I bet the four-eyed mushmouth had never seen the country club he had sent hundreds of bops to.
at bop, n.1
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 211: I rarely had a minute to shoot the breeze with the Imperial Deacons.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 200: I retained just enough savvy not to breeze. I realized that breezing would give the social workers the chance to say, ‘We told you so’.
at breeze, v.1
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 13: They busted me on a bum rap anyway. I was just sitting in a stolen car. I didn’t steal it.
at bum rap, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 122: Where’d you bunk those guns?
at bunk, v.4
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 209: It’s Gent who got burned [...] So it’s up to him whether he wants to tell the cops who burned him.
at burn, v.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 193: What’s buzzin, cousin?
at what’s buzzin’ cousin? under buzz, v.1
[US] (con. 1940s) I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 32: Larry walked out of the apartment in disgust. ‘Jesus, Catfish Row!’.
at Catfish Row, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 127: That bam had drawn a pencilled outline of my chibbs on the bench and printed ‘Frenchy and Florie’ on it.
at chibs, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 205: They learn you that chicken in training school?
at chicken, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 142: You boys know where we can get some nice chocolate tootsie rolls?
at chocolate, adj.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 12: I bet the four-eyed mushmouth had never seen the country club he had sent hundreds of bops to.
at country club, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 123: They would slap the crap out of him to make him talk.
at knock the crap out of (v.) under crap, the, phr.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 147: No crap.
at no crap! (excl.) under crap, n.1
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 27: You never heard of a Negro lynching a fay or creamo, as we call a white man.
at creamo, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 15: She’d put a red flower in her hair, and roll her big eyes, and talk in that croonin voice. Man, I was dead!
at dead, adj.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 16: No daughter of mine is going to throw herself away on a barefoot dock walloper.
at dock-walloper (n.) under dock, n.2
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 203: What a solid doll, a dreamboat.
at dreamboat, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 18: The front room [...] looked out under the El structure.
at el, n.1
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 13: ‘Oh take a flying leap at the moon!’ I said.
at take a flying fuck (v.) under flying fuck, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 197: No fruitin, where’d you get it?
at fruit, v.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 13: All through my interview, he kept dropping fag hints until I told him to go screw. So he gassed the judge about me.
at gas, v.1
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 213: The long grind paid off at last.
at grind, n.
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 204: He had the hawkeye on me so fast.
at hawkeye, n.2
[US] I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 137: Like skin itch, dilated pupils and dreaminess, a craving for sweets is a sign of being stoned.
at itch, n.
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