riggidy
adj.— «Chet stopped writing on his form. “What? I don’t bet in God’s house, Bela. He plays a rigged game anyways. Bingo, my ass—that’s for them old fools in Miami dyin’ in the homes. Shit, I ain’t that riggidy yet, Bels. Sixty-odd maybe, but I ain’t no riggidy!”» —by S.W. Laro Blarney Boys , 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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