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The White Boy Shuffle choose

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[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 158: It seems like Harvard wants me to attend Harvard. I could give a shit.
at give a shit, v.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 9: Euripedes and Crispus, his ace boon coon since childhood, sat in a Boston pub.
at ace boon coon, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 84: A strong-arm man-child for a loan shark.
at strong-arm, adj.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 88: Them buster-ass niggers from the XXY Chromosome Recidivists.
at bust-ass, adj.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 5: An ass-kissing sell-out house Negro.
at ass-kissing, adj.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 48: Say, bitch-ass, c’mere.
at bitch-ass (nigga), n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 23: Hello! Don’t you fucking baboons know that this is the goddam enemy?
at baboon, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 8: Word quickly got back to his owner [...] about the little tar baby’s ingenuity.
at tar baby, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 172: Somewhere near the backwash end of the bottle, I’d guessed that Yoshiko was a rebellious teen.
at backwash (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 72: My bad, I should’ve known.
at my bad under bad, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 92: Just don’t get one of those Jack-Johnson-black-buck-hey-look-at-me-I’m-an-athlete baldsheads.
at baldhead, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 90: Manny only offered one haircut [...] a concentration-camp baldy with a hint of stubble.
at baldy, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 73: Ain’t no seventh grade ballers in the city dunking.
at baller, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 26: I was an ashy-legged black beach bum sporting a lopsided trapezoid natural.
at beach bum (n.) under beach, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 122: Psycho Loco would bebop over to my rescue.
at bebop, v.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 99: Kids from different neighborhoods [...] dance against one another in ‘breakin’’ or ‘poppin’ contests.
at body popper (n.) under body, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 113: The ex-con showed off his scars [...] The kids only wanted to know how many bodies did he have, did the tattoos hurt.
at body, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 5: A long cowardly queue of coons, Uncle Toms, and faithful boogedy-boogedy retainers.
at boogity-boogity, adv.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 63: Two minutes before nine o’clock signaled the grand entrance of the fly guys and starlets.
at fly-boy, n.1
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 99: Break north befo’ I call mother.
at break, v.2
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 25: What you in for, young buck?
at buck, n.1
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 90: There’s Gilbert Suavecito’s cherry ’45 DeSoto convertible.
at cherry, adj.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 25: That’s worth a couple of years, easy. Chow’s at six o’clock.
at chow, n.1
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 63: The clotheshorses stood as much chance of being on a remedial track as the bummy kids with brown bag lunches.
at clotheshorse, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 134: Oh shit, folks coming up on free computers and shit.
at come up on (v.) under come up, v.1
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 5: A long cowardly queue of coons, Uncle Toms, and faithful boogedy-boogedy retainers.
at coon, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 122: Why ain’t you dancing, homes? Crazy honeys is checking you out.
at crazy, adj.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 56: Wuddup, fool? You Cuz or Blood?
at cuz, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 66: ‘Hey, man, what you listening to?’ [...] ‘Jazz, daddio, jazz’.
at daddy-o, n.
[US] P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 224: Ignoring the Japnese claim of dibs to the bomb as a keepsake of war.
at dibs (on)!, excl.
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