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[US] Mother Jones IV:1 18: ‘This thing was more screwed up than Hogan’s goat,’ screamed Brattleboro’s fire chief.
at Hogan’s goat, n.
[US] Mother Jones June 8: Blockbusting— driving white owners out by bringing blacks in and spreading door-to-door panic about falling property values.
at blockbuster, n.2
[US] Mother Jones Sept. 32/2: ‘Besides, there may be some time off work in the deal or, at the very least, some get-happy drugs.’ Time off work? Get-happy drugs? I didn't see much need for either.
at happy drugs (n.) under happy, adj.
[US] in Mother Jones July–Aug. 🌐 People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter.
at ass-end-backwards under ass, n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 You’re a grade A1 asshole when it needs to be.
at A-1, adj.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 You might as well go with the flow. Get this free-ass, easy-ass money, and go home.
at -ass, sfx
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I just want you to know you made a lot of enemies. If you work in Ash, you gonna have a big-ass problem .
at big-ass, adj.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 That Crip boy go’ to tear his ass up [...] Your work partner going to get stabbed.
at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 As Collinsworth and I stand around, inmates gather to look at our watches. One, wearing a cocked gray beanie, asks to buy them.
at beanie, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 If you go’ be at this bitch [i.e. a job], you go’ do 12 hours a day.
at bitch, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 As Brick is taken off to Cypress, he calls the man a ‘bitch’. A couple of officers look down at the young man disdainfully [...] He is Brick's punk.
at bitch, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Roberts shackled her, brought her to an office, and told her to give him a blow jo.
at blow job, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I like them holes in your ears, CO. Come in here with me. Give me that booty!
at booty, n.2
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 On any given day, they can take this facility [...] At chow time, there are 800 inmates and just two COs.
at chow, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 He cooked meth in their toolshed and once beat her so badly he dislocated her shoulder and knee.
at cook, v.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 He asks us what we should do if we see two inmates stabbing each other. [...] We could try to break up a fight if we wanted, he says, but [...] he wouldn't recommend it. [...] ‘So if them fools want to cut each other, well, happy cutting’.
at cut, v.6
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Dude! I’ma shake him the fuck down! [...] I don’t care if he's cool.
at shake down, v.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 He is a reader of old westerns and an aficionado of Civil War reenactments. He uses words like ‘gadzooks’ and phrases like ‘useful as tits on a boar hog’.
at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I find a one-hitter pipe made out of a pen.
at one-hitter (n.) under hit, n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I have three rules and they know it [...] No fightin’. No fuckin’. No jackin’ off.
at jack off, v.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Our instructors advise us to carry a notebook [...] I keep one in my breast pocket and jet into the bathroom periodically to jot things down.
at jet, v.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Residents are proud of the fact that three governors came from Winnfield. They are less proud that the last sheriff was locked up for dealing meth.
at meth, n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 The inmate says he was caught recently with two ounces of ‘mojo,’ or synthetic marijuana.
at mojo, n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 The official ration is one ‘mystery meat’ sandwich, one peanut butter sandwich, six carrot sticks, six celery sticks, and six apple slices per meal.
at mystery meat (n.) under mystery, n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 ‘I don't want to go on no PC, man,’ he says to me. He thinks they are going to put him in protective custody.
at p.c., n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Nothing should be 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, because the auditors say you’re pencil-whipping it. And truth be known, we do pencil-whip it.
at pencil-whipping (n.) under pencil, n.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 The kid grabbed his throat and tried to strangle him. ‘I damn near beat the piss out of him’.
at beat the piss out of (v.) under piss, the, phr.
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Once a punk, always a punk. Miss Carter [...] told us she's seen just two inmates reverse their punk status in the eight years she's been here, and both cases involved stabbing a lot of people.
at punk, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 The floor orderly who protects his reputation by loudly proclaiming that rats deserve to get stabbed.
at rat, n.1
[US] Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I ask one of the regular white-shirted COs what an average day in seg looks like.
at seg, n.2
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