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Fort Apache, The Bronx choose

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[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 182: Tell me that chick’s name, and I’ll go inside and get you a pair of pants and a coat. Or else you’re gonna ride to the precinct in the altogether.
at altogether, the, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 221: On top of the booze and the blow [...] even a one and one of this shmeck would put him away. [Ibid.] 314: Chino fumbled around for the vial of coke on the night table to see if he had enough for a one and one to get his head straight.
at one-and-one, n.2
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 167: This tight ass is makin’ a career move on our backs.
at tight-arse, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 78: There’s enough dirt up here to bury every smart-assed cop in the city.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 60: I’m just as good as that little tight assed chick you gonna marry.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 156: They became a bunch of tight-assed priests and bank tellers.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 200: I ain’t freezin’ on no candyass fuckin’ picket line.
at candy-ass, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 79: Hey, Tony, why don’t you take a suck outta my ass.
at suck my ass!/arse! (excl.) under ass, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 271: Asskissing peasants who could be bought for a drink.
at ass-kissing, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 226: He’s the Commissioner, but he’s not a cop, and he doesn’t know what a horse’s ass you are.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 138: Back up Jim, you’re talkin’ about the woman I love.
at back up, v.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 343: These were the bad pennies. The ones that Dugan had warned him about.
at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 32: He could move right in now on the dude [...] and probably collar him with cash, five nickel bags of dope.
at nickel bag, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 283: That fuckin’ banana.
at banana, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 36: You puttin’ this kid in the barrel already?
at in the barrel under barrel, n.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 41: He’s an orthodox Jew [...] he refuses to take the beanie off.
at beanie, n.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 97: You alright, beauty?
at beauty, n.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 205: The only thing they shoot is beaver.
at beaver, n.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 54: I hate people who can’t handle their own beefs.
at beef, n.2
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 260: It was a beef, of course, a bad one. It was that dead kid.
at beef, n.2
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 47: You wanna be big time?
at big-time, adj.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 59: ‘Hey big shot,’ she shouted.
at big shot, n.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 97: Just take it off the streets, blood.
at blood, n.2
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 35: He’d run through his whole repertoire on the ‘boots and the pineapples’, the current precinct names for blacks and Puerto Ricans.
at boot, n.2
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 15: If it was me in that box [...] he’d say the same thing.
at box, n.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 100: He would spend more time here if these bitches didn’t bring him down so bad.
at bring down, v.1
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 225: What are you buckin’ for, Connolly? [...] You wanna run for Congress or something?
at buck for, v.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 334: If I don’t get what I want in thirty minutes I’m gonna burn everybody in here.
at burn, v.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 313: ‘You’re gonna burn her, ain’t you man?’ ‘No, man [...] I’m gonna let her burn herself.’ He took a spoonful of heroin and dropped it in an envelope. Straight with no chaser.
at burn, v.
[US] H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 47: Now go ahead you little cocksucker, run up that block, or I’ll burn your ass right here.
at burn someone’s ass (v.) under burn, v.
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