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The Spook Who Sat by the Door choose

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[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 30: After he eats, after we done turned a trick, maybe three or four cigarettes all the time we together.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 103: I’ll take care of your old lady [...] The one looks like twenty miles of bad road.
at — miles of bad road, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 6: A small shift and there goes the ball game.
at that’s the ballgame under ballgame, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 59: Well, big-time, the Man say you can have the car as long as you want it today.
at big time, n.1
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 14: Blow your bourgeois blues, your nigger soul sold for a mess of materialistic pottage.
at blow, v.1
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 15: One of those diddy-bop niggers from Chicago had almost stolen his present wife.
at diddy-bop, adj.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 83: The Cobras overnight became a non-bopping gang.
at bopping gang, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 5: I’ll look over your detailed break-down later.
at breakdown, n.1
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 79: The guards are the safest pushers in the city — ‘they can’t bust you in the slam’.
at bust, v.1
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 6: The results check out on both computers.
at check out, v.2
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 42: Whitey’s hooked with messing with niggers and you want him to go cold turkey.
at cold turkey, adv.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 45: All them dirty, conk-headed niggers with their African and down-home ways.
at conked, adj.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 22: This is a team for men, not for misplaced cotton-pickers.
at cotton-picker, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 16: I’m going out to Washington for a final interview panel and I want to please the crackers.
at cracker, n.3
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 19: It will cost us a bit to flunk out six or eight a year.
at flunk, v.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 14: Where’d you go to school, man? [...] You frat?
at frat, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 70: You really want to fuck with Whitey, I’ll show you how!
at fuck with, v.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 145: It looks like I’m going to throw a little shit in the game.
at put shit in the game (v.) under game, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 112: In addition to M-1’s there were grease guns, pistols, M-14 and M-16 rifles.
at grease-gun (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 91: His handkerchief-head old lady always sassin’ the white folks.
at handkerchief-head, n.1
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 31: I ain’t on junk and I can always get my hat and make it to Baltimore, dig.
at get one’s hat (v.) under hat, n.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 82: Hypo scars on the forearm, the pupils dilated by drugs.
at hypo, n.2
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 120: I don’t have to worry about no jig lieutenants.
at jig, adj.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 5: All right, team, let’s have a run-down [...] Tom, kick it off.
at kick off, v.2
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 5: How do we shape up on TV, Dick? All our ducks in line?
at line up one’s ducks (v.) under line up, v.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 31: This was the easiest trick she had in a week. She wondered how much she could milk him for.
at milk, v.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 74: N.G.; no good.
at n.g., phr.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 30: The cat owed me start to get a little off the wall about the bread.
at off the wall, adj.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 91: Pink dress, pink parasol, pink cheeks, pretty little pinktoe chick.
at pinktoe, adj.
[US] S. Greenlee Spook who Sat by the Door (1972) 37: Although the Senator did not feel himself as regular guy, he would have been pleased at the accolade.
at regular guy (n.) under regular, adj.
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