Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Everything
2
American Underworld Dictionary
(
thing
)
by
pukesick
Thu Feb 10 2000 at 9:22:13
The
terms
,
phrases
, and small slice of culture
revealed
in this
dictionary
intrigued me.
Actual title :
Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo
Hyman E. Goldin (
Editor in Chief
)
Frank O'Leary (
General Editor
)
Morris Lipsius (
Assistant Editor
)
Copyright 1950 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. (lapsed -
CST Approved
)
A
abbey
/
accident
/
ace
/
ace in
/
aces with
/
action
/
actor
/
adjy
/
ad-man
/
agent
/
ague
/
airedale
/
alky
/
all caught up
/
all copper
/
alley rat
/
all muzzler
/
all sewed up
/
altar
/
alvin
/
anchor and prop
/
angel cake and wine
/
ankle
/
anklets
/
apple-knocker
/
the arm
/
arm-cramper
/
Around the horn
/
aspirin-hound
/
attempt to gog
/
aunt
/
axeman
B
back-gate commute
/
backs
/
bad-eye
/
badge-man
/
bag
/
bag your head
/
bail out
/
balky
/
balls
/
baloney
/
bang
/
bang-up
/
barker
/
barrel house
/
beachcomber
/
bean
/
beast
/
beat
/
beat the bishop
/
beef
/
beer flat
/
beetle
/
belly robber
/
belt out
/
bend a bar over
/
bend one's ear
/
bender
/
bent
/
bent one
/
berry
/
bet on the muscle
/
better him than me
/
bible
/
big-eye
/
big-eyes
/
big house
/
bill-poster
/
bimmy
/
bindle
/
bindle-stiff
/
bird
/
biscuit
/
bite
/
black gold souper
/
blackstone
/
blank
/
blanket-presser
/
blast
/
blast the roach
/
blind steer
/
blister
/
blot
/
blouser
/
blow
/
blow coke
/
blow-in
/
blow your nose
/
bone-factory
/
bookie
/
boomer
/
boost
/
boosting-ben
/
boot
/
boot the gong around
/
bounce
/
box man
/
boy scout
/
brass up
/
break one's balls
/
break the book
/
breezer
/
broad a ghee hustles with
/
buck a combo
/
bucket brigade
/
buckwheat
/
bum rap
/
burn
/
butcher
/
buy new shoes
C
Cabaret
/
Cabbage
/
Cab-joint
/
Cackle-factory
/
Cadet
/
Cadillac
/
Call girl
/
Calling Card
/
Canary
/
Candy
/
Canister
/
Canned goods
/
Canojerod
/
Cap
/
Caper
/
Carry the banner
/
Case
/
Catch rope
/
Catch slugs
/
Caught in a snow storm
/
Center-fielder
/
Chalk out
/
Charged up
/
Charity stuff
/
Chatterbox
/
Cheese it!
/
Cherry
/
Chill the beef
/
Chop down
/
Chop it up
/
Chuck a dummy
/
Chump
/
Chunk
/
Clam
/
Clip
/
Clout
/
Clown
/
Cold-cock
/
Cold lay
/
Cold slough
/
Cold turkey
/
Come clean
/
Come-off
/
Come off a trick
/
Come-on
/
Come out swinging
/
Conk
/
Connection town
/
Cop a gander
/
Cow-simple
/
Crapper
/
Crib
/
Crumb
/
Cuff
/
Cut a new kisser
/
Cut in
/
Cut to the breaks
D
Daddy
/
Damper
/
Damper-mob
/
Damper-pads
/
Dance hall pimp
/
Dangler
/
Daub of the brush
/
Dead-bang
/
Dead-banger
/
Deadhead
/
Dead pidgeon
/
Dead ringer
/
Dead spit
/
Deal
/
Deck-hand
/
Derrick
/
Devil-dodger
/
Dicer
/
Dick
/
Diddler
/
Die
/
Difference
/
Dig
/
Dig a hole
/
Dig deep
/
Dig up
/
Dimmer
/
Dinah
/
Dincher
/
Dinger
/
Dinner-pailer
/
Dirk
/
Dish out
/
Ditch
/
Dive
/
Divvy
/
Do a crouch
/
Doctor
/
Dodge
/
Dodger
/
Dog
/
Doing handy
/
Do-little
/
Doll
/
Dolly sisters
/
Doniker
/
Doodley
/
Door-shaker
/
Dope
/
Dose
/
Dose up
/
Do time
/
Double
/
Double-bank
/
Double barreled
/
Double-O
/
Double-saw
/
Double-sawbuck
/
Double with
/
Douche-bag
/
Dough
/
Doughnut
/
Drag
/
Dragnet
/
Draw heat
/
Dream gum
/
Drill
/
Drink
/
Drop
/
Drop-car
/
Dropper
/
Duke
/
Duke in
/
Duke it out
/
Duker
/
Dummy
/
Dummy up
/
Dump
/
Dumper
/
Dust
/
Duster
/
Dynamite
E
Eagle
/
Easy
/
Elbows
/
End
/
Equalizer
/
Eye-Wash
F
Fade
/
Fade out
/
Fagin
/
Faker
/
Fall
/
Fall guy
/
Family pimp
/
Fart around
/
Fast burners
/
Fast one
/
Fat lip
/
Feeler
/
Feel out
/
Fence
/
Fence blind
/
Fence jumper
/
Fiero
/
Figary
/
Figure to go
/
Fill
/
Find an out
/
Find in a hallway
/
Fin-flipper
/
Finger-mob
/
Fink
/
Fink caper
/
Fire-proofer
/
Fireworks
/
Five-and-fifty-five
/
Fix
/
Fixer
/
Fix the fuzz with some soft
/
Flag down
/
Flash
/
Flash-dough
/
Flash the tin
/
Flatback
/
Flatfoot
/
Flatten
/
Flatten out
/
Flea
/
Fleabag
/
Flip
/
Flipper
/
Float
/
Flop-house
/
Floosie
/
Flushed
/
Fly
/
Fly horse
/
Fog
/
Fold
/
Fold a joint
/
Football
/
Forty
/
Frame
/
Freebie
/
Free hole
/
Free-load
/
Free-loader
/
Freeze
/
Freeze on to
/
Fresh
/
Frill
/
Frisk
/
Front
/
Front room
/
Fruit for the monkeys
/
Fry
/
Full house
/
Funny paper
/
Fuzz
G
G
/
Gabo
/
Gaff
/
Gaffed deal
/
Gaff-joint
/
Gag
/
Gaged
/
Gagged-gat
/
Gams
/
Gander
/
Gandy dancer
/
Gap
/
Gash
/
Gash-hound
/
Gat
/
Gazers
/
Geed-up
/
Geedus
/
Geepo
/
Geezer
/
Gelt
/
Georgia scuffle
/
German
/
Get
/
Get a bit chopped
/
Get a break
/
Get a fat lip
/
Get a grindstone and sharpen it
/
Get a load of
/
Get around
/
Get a tail
/
Get a valentine
/
Getaway
/
Getaway boiler
/
Get the finger put on
/
Get hip
/
Get hit with
/
Get hit with the blocks
/
Get hours
/
Get it up
/
Get off the gun
/
Get off the nut
/
Get out the crying towel
/
Get under the bed
/
Get-up
/
G-heat
/
Ghee
/
Ghee with the brass nuts
/
Ghost
/
Giggle academy
/
Ginch
/
Ginzola
/
Give a run
/
Give one a bit
/
Give one a cuff
/
Give one a stab
/
Give one the blanket
/
Give one the works
/
Giver-up
/
Give up
/
Glass wagon
/
Glimmer
/
Glimmers
/
Glom
/
Glom onto
/
Glu
/
G-man
/
G-note
/
Gob
/
Go back for seconds
/
Gobbler
/
Go by hand
/
Goddamus
/
Go down
/
Go home
/
Going-over
/
Gold badge man
/
Goldbrick
/
Gondola
/
Gonger
/
Gong-kicker
/
Goniff
/
Gooby
/
Good-buck
/
Good for a lay
/
Good giver-up
/
Good head
/
Goods
/
Goof
/
Goof-butt
/
Googs
/
Goon
/
Go on a trick
/
Goose
/
Go out
/
Go out to the country
/
Go over one's head
/
Go over the hill
/
Gopher
/
Gospel ghee
/
Got to buck
/
Go through the trap
/
Go to bat
/
Go to town
/
Goulash
/
Go up against
/
Go wrong
/
Grab
/
Grab a hot one
/
Grab salvation
/
Grab scenery
/
Grad
/
G-rag
/
Grapes
/
Gravel-eye
/
Gravy
/
Graze
/
Green goods
/
Greystone college
/
Griddle
/
Griffo
/
Grift
/
Grind
/
Grub
/
Grubbing grift
/
G-string
/
Gueril
/
Guerilla
/
Guinea football
/
guinea wench
/
Gullion
/
Gullion-joint
/
Gullion-poke
/
Gumdrop cocktail
/
Gum-foot
/
Gummio
/
Gummy
/
Gump
/
Gumshoe-worker
/
Gun
/
Gun-joint
/
Gun-mob
/
Gun-moll
/
Gunning-over
/
Gun rap
/
Gunsmith
/
Guts
/
Gutter hype
/
Guzzle
H
Half a case
/
Handed
/
Hand it to
/
Handle
/
Handorgan
/
Hanger
/
Hang paper
/
Hang up
/
Hapas capas
/
Hard
/
Hard-on
/
Hardware
/
Hardness
/
Hash trap
/
Hatchet-man
/
Haul
/
Have a buck
/
Haymaker shuffle
/
Head cold
/
Heap
/
Heat
/
Heavy
/
Heavy heeled
/
Heavy paper
/
Hedgehopper
/
Heel
/
Heel a joint
/
Heel technique
/
Heist
/
Hep
/
Hep-broad
/
Hide
/
Hijack
/
Hipe
/
Hiper
/
Hip to the bug
/
Hip to the kip
/
Hit a slab
/
Hit in the head
/
Hit the ceiling
/
Hit the deck
/
Hit the flop
/
Hit the hump
/
Hit the jackpot
/
Hit the main line
/
Hit the pot
/
Hit the road
/
Hit the turf
/
Hit with a lily
/
Hold heavy
/
Holding
/
Hold it up
/
Hold out
/
Hole up
/
Homey
/
Honey
/
Hood
/
Hook-joint
/
Hook up with
/
Hooligan
/
Hop bail
/
Hopped up
/
Hop town
/
Hose
/
Hot
/
Hot car farm
/
Hot foot
/
House mother
/
Hummer
/
Hump
/
Hump one to death
/
Hunk of hat
/
Hush-hush
/
Hymie
/
Hype
/
Hype-stick
I
Ice
/
Ice-box
/
Ice-house
/
Idea pot
/
in
/
In a fog
/
Inkpot
/
In line
/
Inside job
/
In the biscuit
/
In the middle
J
Jabber
/
Jaboff
/
Jackie up
/
Jag
/
Jail-bait
/
Jam
/
Jane
/
Jesus at half mast
/
Jerk-off
/
Jerk off a hooker
/
Jerk of a rapper
/
jerkwater
/
Jesus stiff
/
Jigger-man
/
Jinx
/
Job
/
John law
/
Joint
/
Joy-rider
/
Jug
/
Jug-heavy
/
Juice-joint
/
Juke-joint
/
Jungle
/
Jungle buzzard
/
Junk
/
Junked up
/
Junkey
/
Junk pusher
/
Junk-pushing
K
Kangaroo
/
Keep a meet
/
Keister
/
Keister bandit
/
Keisterman
/
Kick
/
Kick a habit
/
Kick-back
/
Kicker
/
Kick-in
/
Kicking around
/
Kick loose
/
Kick-off
/
Kick-over
/
Kife
/
Kill a rap
/
Kip
/
Kisser
/
Kiss-off
/
Knob
/
Knock
/
Knock-around broad
/
Knock-around ghee
/
Knock down
/
Knock off
/
Knock out
/
Knock over
/
Knowledge-box
/
Kokomo
L
Labor-skate
/
Lace
/
Lag
/
Lam
/
On the lam
/
lam-car
/
Lamp
/
Larry
/
Last mile
/
Lather up
/
Law
/
Lay
/
The lay
/
Lay butso
/
Lay off
/
Lay paper
/
Lay sour paper
/
Lay the gagg
/
Lay the leg
/
Lay the note
/
Lay up
/
Lay zex
/
Lead pipe
/
Leaps
/
Leather
/
Leeasaw
/
Leech
/
Legal pimp
/
Legit
/
Legit beef
/
Legit broad
/
Legit ghee
/
Legit joint
/
Legit stiff
/
Leg-puller
/
Lemon
/
On the lemon
/
Lemon game
/
Lemon-mob
/
Level
/
Licensed grift
/
Lift
/
Light artillery
/
Line
/
On the line
/
Line-up
/
Lip
/
Lip-burner
/
Lip in
/
Live one
/
Load up
/
Lob
/
Lone wolf
/
Long-cut-short
/
Long-haired
/
Long-haired boys
/
Long rod
/
Lookout
/
On the loop
/
Loud talk a ghee
/
Louse around
/
Louse up
/
Lousy
/
Lousy with
/
Lover
/
The lowdown
/
Lug
/
Lug a chiv
/
Lug a rod
/
Lug swag
/
Lulu
/
Lump
/
Lush
/
Lush-dive
/
Lush dive
M
Mac
/
Madam
/
Made
/
Mahoska
/
Main drag
/
Main ghee
/
Main-line bang
/
Make a beat
/
Make a break
/
Make a bum beef
/
Make a joint
/
Make a kisser
/
Make a mark
/
Make a meet
/
Make an in
/
Make a pass
/
Make a pinch
/
Make a play for
/
Make a poke
/
Make a rifle
/
Make a score
/
Make a stir
/
Make a touch
/
Make a book
/
Make a mugg
/
Make the nut
/
Man
/
Man with the brass nuts
/
Mark
/
Mat
/
Matinee
/
Mean scorfer
/
Meat-hooks
/
Meet
/
Meg
/
Merchandise
/
On the merry-go-round
/
Mess up
/
Mess with
/
Meter
/
In the middle
/
Mike and Ike
/
Miss a meet
/
Miss-up
/
Mitt
/
Mitted
/
Mitt-glom
/
Mitt-glommer
/
Mitt up
/
Mob
/
Mob-ghee
/
Mob up
/
Mojo
/
Moke
/
Moll
/
Moll-buzz
/
Moll-whiz
/
Monicker
/
Mooch
/
Moocher
/
Mooch in
/
Mooch out
/
Moosh
/
Mope
/
Morph
/
Mosey
/
Mouse
/
Mouthpiece
/
On the move
/
Move a job
/
Moving
/
Moxie
/
Muckstick
/
Mud
/
Muff
/
Muff diver
/
Mugg
/
Mugger
/
Murder
/
The muscle
/
Muscle in
/
Muscle man
/
Muscle out
/
Muscle work
/
Mush
/
Muzzler
N
Nautch-broad
/
Nautchery
/
Nautch-joint
/
Necktie-bum
/
Needle
/
Needle-man
/
Nephew
/
Nibbler
/
Nice Buck
/
Nice thing
/
Nick
/
Night club
/
Night clubbing
/
Night on the rainbow
/
Night ride
/
Nip
/
Nix
/
On the Nod
/
Noggin
/
Noise
/
Noise off
/
Nose
/
Note-dropper
/
Note-layer
/
Not so hot
/
Not so kosher
/
The Numbers
/
Nursery
/
Nursery stretch
/
The Nut
/
On The Nut
/
Nut-House
/
Nut-money
O
Oats
/
Oblay
/
Oday
/
Off the nut
/
Off the pop
/
The Office
/
Oh, sing it, sucker!
/
Oil
/
Oil business
/
Oil merchant
/
Okus
/
Ola
/
Old clap
/
The old dog
/
The old dose
/
Old monkey
/
Old-timer
/
Old touches
/
Once-over
/
One-arm bandit
/
One-two
/
One-way ghee
/
On the
/
On the bend
/
On the button
/
Open up
/
Oregon boot
/
Oscar
/
Out
/
Outfielder
/
Outift
/
Out for a buck
/
Out for a rep
/
Out of turn
/
Out on the shorts
/
Outside man
/
Outsiders
/
Overnight job
/
Over the hill
/
Over the hump
/
Owner's job
P
Pack
/
Pack a chiv
/
Package
/
Pack a rod
/
Pack a heater
/
Pack away
/
Pack heat
/
Pack horse
/
Pack-in
/
Pack in
/
Pack time away
/
Pad
/
Padded
/
Pad-dough
/
Paddy
/
Paddy-wagon
/
Pad roll
/
Pads
/
Paid off
/
Panel-joint
/
Panic is on
/
Pansy
/
Papa
/
Paper
/
Paper-hanger
/
Paper-hanging
/
Paralyzed
/
Park the biscuit
/
Parole time
/
Parolitis
/
Pass
/
Pass up
/
Paste
/
Pat
/
Patsy
/
On the Pavement
/
Pay-off
/
Pay-off ghee
/
Pay off in the alley
/
Pay off on the squash
/
Pay off on the tin
/
Peach
/
Peanuts
/
Peasant
/
Pea-shooter
/
Pea-soup
/
Peddler
/
Pedigree
/
The Peekaboo
/
Peeled
/
Peep
/
Peepers
/
Peg
/
Peg-house
/
Peg slugs
/
Pencil
/
Penciler
/
Penman
/
Perfects
/
Persuader
/
Pete
/
Pete-job
/
Pete-man
/
Phony
/
Phony pinch
/
Phony rap
/
Phony super
/
Phutz
/
P.I.
/
Pick a berry
/
Pickle
/
Pick-up
/
Pick up a tail
/
Pick-up car
/
Picric
/
Piece
/
Piece of a joint
/
Piece of snatch
/
Piece of work
/
Pig
/
Pike
/
Pike off
/
Pill
/
Pill-roller
/
Pin
/
Pin a rap on
/
Pinch
/
Pineapple
/
Pins
/
Pipe
/
On the pipe
/
Piss and Punk
/
Piss away
/
Piss-can
/
Pisser
/
Piss in a snowbank
/
Piss-up
/
Pistol whip
/
Pitchman
/
Plant
/
Plaster
/
Platinum loaders
/
Play a bloomer
/
Play a matinee
/
Play ball
/
Playhouse
/
Play the bird with the long neck
/
Play the duece of clubs
/
Play the dozens
/
Play the field
/
Play the iggy
/
Play the level
/
Play the match
/
Play the numbers
/
Play the squirrels
/
Pleasure smoker
/
Plenty of numbers
/
Pling
/
Plough the kip
/
Plow
/
Plum-picker
/
Plunge out
/
Pocket touch
/
Poger
/
Pogey
/
Porgie-bait
/
Poison
/
Poke
/
Pokey
/
Policy bank
/
Policy game
/
Polly
/
Pontius Pirate
/
Pooch-snatch
/
Poop
/
Popcorn
/
Pop a nut
/
Pop-off
/
Pop one's nuts
/
Potato
/
Potato water
/
Pound the bell
/
Pour it on
/
Powder
/
Pratt
/
Pratt-digger
/
Pratt-leather
/
Pratt-man
/
Press
/
Press the bankroll
/
Pressure
/
Pretzel
/
Primed
/
Print
/
Prison hustler
/
Prison tough guy
/
Prod
/
Professor
/
Proby
/
Promote
/
Promotion
/
Prop
/
Protection
/
Protection town
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Prowl
/
Prowl car
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Prowler
/
Pruno
/
Puke on
/
Pull
/
Pull a crater
/
Pull a fast one
/
Pull a Greeley
/
Pull a Jesse James
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Pull a job
/
Pull a joint
/
Pull an ace
/
Pull a pinch
/
Pull a pisser
/
Pull a rabbit
/
Pull a sneak
/
Pull a trick
/
Pull a wire
/
Pull off
/
Pull one's leg
/
Pull out of the bag
/
Pull the nut
/
Pump
/
Punch the gun
/
Punk and plaster
/
Pup
/
Push
/
Push a can
/
Push a stiff
/
Pusher
/
Push flats
/
Push gage
/
Push hot ones
/
Push in
/
Push junk
/
Push muggles
/
Push out
/
Pushover
/
Push paper
/
Push stores
/
Push swag
/
Put a bug on
/
Put a chiv on
/
Put a mark on
/
Put a spot on
/
Put a tail on
/
Put in the hole
/
Put in the middle
/
Put it on
/
Put-off
/
Put on an act
/
Put on the arm
/
Put on the spot
/
Put the arm on
/
Put the bite on
/
Put the blocks to
/
Put the boots to
/
Put the chill on
/
Put the clown to bed
/
Put the cross on
/
Put the finger on
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Put the frame on
/
Put the glom on
/
Put the grab on
/
Put the gorill on
/
Put the hat on
/
Put the heat on
/
Put the hipe on
/
Put the horns on
/
Put the hustle on
/
Put the log on
/
Put the mugg on
/
Put the muscle on
/
Put the needles in
/
Put the nuts on
/
Put the pencil on
/
Put the promote on
/
Put the prongs on
/
Put the shake on
/
Put the skids on
/
Put the sleeve on
/
Put the slough on
/
Put the slug on
/
Put the snare on
/
Put the snatch on
/
Put the squeeze on
/
Put the tap on
/
Put-up
/
Put up a beef
/
Put up a holler
/
Put up a sucker's holler
Q
Queer pusher
/
Quickie
/
Quick one
/
Quiff
R
Rabbit
/
Rabbit Blood
/
Rabbit out
/
Rabbit-Snatcher
/
Racket
/
Racket broad
/
Racket dude
/
Racketeer
/
Racketeering
/
Racket ghee
/
Rag
/
Rag-bag
/
Rahl
, the /
Rahled up
/
Railroad
/
Rain check
/
Raise heat
/
Raiser
/
Rake-off
/
Range
/
Rank
/
Rank a joint
/
Rank a mark
/
Rank and lam
/
Rank a play
/
Ranked
/
Rap
/
Rapper
/
Rap to
/
Rat
/
Rat caper
/
Rat-crasher
/
Rat-mark
/
Rats
/
On the Rats
/
Rat-shackle
/
Rat stand
/
Rattle
/
Rattler
/
Raus
/
Reach
/
Read
/
Read a shirt
/
Reader
/
Readers
/
Reader with a tail
/
Ready
/
Ready up
/
Receive
/
Reception
/
Reck
/
Red
/
Red-hot
/
Red lead
/
Red one
/
Reef
/
Rehash
/
Reindeer dust
/
One's Relief
/
Reload
/
Repeater
/
Re-run
/
Rib
/
Rib joint
/
Ride
/
Ride old smoky
/
Ride on the green
/
Ride on the red
/
Ride the earie
/
Ride the rods
/
Ride
/
Riding a wave
/
Rigout
/
Rigged joint
/
Right buck
/
Right copper
/
Right croaker
/
Right dice
/
Right fall
/
Right ghee
/
Right joint
/
Right mouthpiece
/
Right people
/
Right polly
/
Right rap
/
Right screw
/
Ringer
/
Ring ghee
/
Ring in
/
Ring job
/
Ringman
/
Ring the bell
/
Rip
/
the Rip
/
Rip-job
/
Ripper
/
Roach
/
Road agent
/
Road kid
/
Roar
/
Rocks
/
Rod
/
Rodded up
/
Rodman
/
Rods
/
Roll
/
Roll a pill
/
Roll around!
/
Rolled over the barrel
/
Roller
/
Rollin's
/
Roll out the barrel
/
Roll-over
/
Root
/
Root in the keister
/
Rope in
/
Ropes
/
Roscoe
/
Rot in the stir
/
Rough
/
Round
/
Rounder
/
Round-heeled
/
Route the grift
/
Rowdy-dowdy
/
Rubber
/
Rubber bum
/
Rubdown
/
Rub out
/
Ruffy
/
Rumble
/
Rum-dumb
/
Rum-row
/
Rum-runner
/
Run
/
Run-in
/
Runner
/
Run-out powder
/
Run rum
/
Run the roads down
/
Run the tier
/
Rustler
/
Rustle out
/
Rustle up
S
Bit by bit.
Back-gate commute
abbey
Jerk off a hooker
Aspirin-hound
accident
Jesus at half mast
Quiff
Angel cake and wine
Buy new shoes
Apple-knocker
Attempt to gog
ace
Dance hall pimp
Ace in
Eye-wash
Aces with
Quickie
Break one's balls
Broad a ghee hustles with
Arm-cramper
Fruit for the monkeys
Family pimp
beat the bishop
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