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[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 123: Jones has a big set of nuts and he gives a good fuck about exactly nothin.
at not give a fuck, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 38: The rap sheet description included known a.k.a.’s.
at a.k.a., n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 131: There ain’t nothin here of value to speak of [...] Walkin-around money is all I got.
at walk-about money, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 58: Artis Gilmore got a big ’Fro, too.
at afro, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 22: Kicked around some, doing a little bit of this and that.
at kick around, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 15: Long as Jones had known him, Odum had been ass broke.
at ass, adv.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 36: It didn’t matter [....] if they were asshole buddies or not.
at asshole buddy (n.) under asshole, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 99: The transaction had been made and [...] his girl had been badged.
at badge, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 108: You get inside those walls, you learn.
at behind the walls (adv.) under behind, prep.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 14: Jones reholstered the .22 in the dip of his bells.
at bells, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 123: Jones has a big set of nuts [...] but he’s gonna bite it.
at bite it (v.) under bite, v.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was Blockbuster realtors who had preyed on the fears of whites in post-riot D.C.:
at blockbuster, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 44: ‘Got some blondes behind your seat [...] Opener’s in the glove box.’ Jones retrieved a couple Miller High Lifes, golden in clear glass bottles.
at blonde, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 140: Got a favor to ask, blood.
at blood, n.2
[US] Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 9: His ratty blowout was the color of rust.
at blow-out, n.2
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 119: Some boofer poured rotgut into a Royal bottle.
at boofer, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 39: His thick, helmeted cock plunging in and out of her warm, wet box.
at box, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 102: ‘I don’t need no bracelets, Hap,’ said Coco.
at bracelets, n.
[US] Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 10: The bottle had been filled and refilled over the years with off-brands, its label faded to gray.
at off-brand, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 190: The brazen nature of the Soul House burn had put Harp over the edge.
at burn, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 78: A local cop who was into him on a gambling debt for two thousand dollars and change.
at change, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 98: The Fourteenth Street cherry-bust. A rite of passage in this town.
at cherry-bust (n.) under cherry, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 99: A couple of squad cars [...] arrived, sirens and cherry-tops activated.
at cherry-top (n.) under cherry, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 28: That big dog in the cartoons, the one with the scary choppers and the spiked colar.
at choppers, n.
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 16: Jones pointed to the keys hanging in theignotion. ‘Cook it, Coco’.
at cook, v.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 59: No one cracked on Frank, a local with a work ethic.
at crack on, v.2
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 123: I’m guessing Jones is cribbed up with jefferson somewhere.
at crib, v.4
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 35: Testers and cut buddies make the best, most vulnerable CIs because they were addicts.
at cut buddy (n.) under cut, n.1
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 76: Tony Curtis is a Jew [...] Means Janet [Leigh] likes her salami cut.
at cut, adj.4
[US] G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 128: That’s a nice El D, Two-Tone.
at El D, n.
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