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[US] B. Gifford Night People 74: Sure as shit some righteous bitches out there.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 61: ‘Have Some Tits with Your Grits.’ Advert for a bare-ass place for truckers.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 14: That café au lait gal was in C block.
at café au lait, adj.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 177: Nothin’ like Silver Queen corn from ’Bama.
at Bama, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 130: Ain’t ever’body afford a extra four bits.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] B. Gifford Night People 131: They had busted up right after her recent abortion.
at bust up, v.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 65: The Cambo brought the hand [...] to a Viet restaurant.
at Cambo, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 4: I can’t believe we survived three and change in that pit.
at change, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 184: ‘You’d just completed your first assignment [...]’ ‘Broke my cherry, as you norteamericanos say.’.
at bust a cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] B. Gifford Night People 95: I put Kid Magnolia against Basilio in Chi.
at Chi, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 111: Maceo shook his clean head no.
at clean, adj.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 8: She was built up from the ground like a Coca-Cola bottle.
at coke frame, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 171: I don’t believe that. This is somethin’ your daddy cooked up, isn’t it?
at cook up, v.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 131: A large Latino man [...] dressed in an ice cream suit.
at ice-cream suit (n.) under ice-cream, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 179: You can stick the Egyptians where the sun don’t shine, far as I’m concerned.
at where the sun doesn’t shine, phr.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 37: ‘I been around,’ Jasper said. ‘Dogpatch USA.’.
at dogpatch (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] B. Gifford Night People 31: Luis and me is down, Mama! Get used to it!
at down, adv.2
[US] B. Gifford Night People 10: The brothers could drink, dance with an assortment of neighborhood doxies and slumming college girls.
at doxy, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 159: Wes [...] immediately thereafter fell off the wagon on which he had been a brief passenger.
at fall off the (water) wagon (v.) under fall, v.1
[US] B. Gifford Night People 66: [That] was all Duke Douglas cared about, a place to flop.
at flop, v.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 95: She pushed him into the Garden with Sugar.
at Garden, the, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 26: He lost control, and sprayed her all over [...] Cutie, still dripping wet from the golden shower, ran out.
at golden shower, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 145: ‘You holdin’ any green?’ ‘About ninety dollars.’.
at green, n.2
[US] B. Gifford Night People 67: For fifty [i.e. dollars] you can [...] do me up the heinie.
at heinie, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 5: You got to play it that way till you can’t play it no more.
at play it..., v.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 118: Wake me up with them fat lips polishin’ the knob.
at polish the knob (v.) under knob, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 166: My land, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana!
at my land! (excl.) under land, n.1
[US] B. Gifford Night People 4: Them big ol’ mamas been usin’ me for toilet paper.
at mama, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 27: An infamous safe house for thieves, moonshiners and killers on the run.
at moonshiner, n.
[US] B. Gifford Night People 163: Daddy called tonight from N.O.
at N.O., n.
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