corner boy
n.— «Another dealer, “Donnie,” 16, and his corner crew laughed when asked about murder. Donnie is proud of being a “corner boy.” He said he and his pals sell crack around Clearfield and Hartville streets in West Kensington, where the only open businesses are bodegas and barbershops.» —“Philly’s drug dealers: Younger all the time” by Simone Weichselbaum Philadelphia Daily News (Pennsylvania) Dec. 27, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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