1979 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.
1986 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
1986 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.
1997 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.
2016 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
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 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
2016 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
2016 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
2016 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
2016 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
2016 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
2016 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
2016 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
2016 Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 Dude! I’ma shake him the fuck down! [...] I don’t care if he's cool.at shake down, v.
2016 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
2016 Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I find a one-hitter pipe made out of a pen.at one-hitter (n.) under hit, n.
2016 Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 I have three rules and they know it [...] No fightin’. No fuckin’. No jackin’ off.at jack off, v.1
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 The inmate says he was caught recently with two ounces of ‘mojo,’ or synthetic marijuana.at mojo, n.
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 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
2016 Mother Jones July/Aug. 🌐 The floor orderly who protects his reputation by loudly proclaiming that rats deserve to get stabbed.at rat, n.1
2016 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