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[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 126: And some of them is policy bankers now and all kinds of money.
at all kinds of, adv.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 234: The greatest single affection among the ‘stud broads’ [...] is the close-cropped men’s haircut, ranging from a practical crew to the popular ‘Duck’s Ass.’.
at duck’s arse, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 155: We women be better off if only we didn’t need them [i.e. men] so much for ass.
at ass, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 215: So I was mad. [...] You can imagine how goddamn burned I was.
at burned (at), adj.
[US] S. Harris Hellhole 121: There was a strength and assurance in the way colored people used ‘baby’ (they’d coined it and felt it belonged to them).
at baby, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) in S. Harris Hellhole 161: Criminals whom Molly still designates by the names with which she first learned to identify them: [...] ‘bats or owls’ – streetwalkers who work at night.
at bat, n.1
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 222: His pill bit was done and he told me about the shooting.
at bit, n.1
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 171: They sit with you [...] around a scarred wooden table in one of their own Bloody Bucket bars on the Bowery.
at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 210: I know that she’s gay [...] And I gave her a look back like ‘You’ll be my slave now and I’ll blow your whole scene if you don’t do what I want.’.
at blow someone’s act (v.) under blow, v.2
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 51: I flew off the handle because I had a terrible migraine headache – I go crazy when I get a migraine [...] I was so bugged I just got hysterical.
at bugged, adj.1
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 82: I found out later some of them were gay, but they didn’t wear bulldyke haircuts and you wouldn’t know.
at bull-dyke, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 229: Let’s suppose I’m in on a short bust. Let’s say I’m in for ninety days.
at bust, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 186: A marvelous atmosphere cooked up to make Caspar Milquetoasts feel like big brave explorers.
at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) in S. Harris Hellhole 161: Criminals whom Molly still designates by the names with which she first learned to identify them: ‘Cats’ or ‘gooks’ – the small-time madams she presently meets in the House of detention.
at cat, n.1
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 30: Frankie, my ‘cellie,’ said that if I wanted a shower I’d have to scramble for it.
at cellie, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 221: You’ll come along to stand chickie for the cops.
at lay chickie (v.) under chickee!, excl.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 149: This broad, Birdie, she is no chicken having had three different sets of kids by three fathers.
at no chicken under chicken, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 94: You’re not a chippy any more but are hooked.
at chippie, n.5
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 217: [of lesbians] When they needed to, femmes and butches [...] picked up tricks and put on circuses for them [...] The tricks were old. Their dicks went hard watching us.
at circus, n.
[US] (con. 1900s) S. Harris Hellhole 165: She tells about the ‘ol’ clo’ shops’ managed by businessmen with long beards and caps on their heads.
at old clo, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 193: I’m a bit of a clothes horse [...] sort of glamorous.
at clotheshorse, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 149: I’m going to kill all them motherens that burned me for my coin over the past twelve years.
at coin, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 123: Cora May sold most of her cigarettes to ‘coolies,’ girls who weren’t auxiliary gang members.
at coolie, n.2
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 218: We were kopacetic till her mother found out about us.
at copacetic, adj.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 238: She used to crack me up because she really believed that I’d never go back to a man now that she was my lover.
at crack someone up (v.) under crack, v.2
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 56: I found out that with headshrinkers the ones who act nicest to your face can be the crummiest behind your back.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 189: Some white daddy-o offers to lay a lot of money and expensive presents on me.
at daddy-o, n.
[US] S. Harris Hellhole 47: She had me deadlocked – put into solitary confinement.
at deadlock, n.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 153: Cindy explains the point well in her story of her ‘third-degreeing’ by a certain officer.
at third degree, v.
[US] in S. Harris Hellhole 109: He was seventeen and ‘dicty-looking’ and Bertha would have done anything he wanted.
at dicty, adj.
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