cack v.2
1. to fall asleep.
Sporting Times 8 Feb. 6/2: This is the last fare I’m going to take ’ome cacked. | ||
Newport Jazz Festival: 1959 45: cack: fall asleep, fall out, go under. |
2. (US black) to boast, to brag, esp. of one’s good fortune.
Juba to Jive. |
3. (US) to amaze.
Rockabilly (1963) 48: Take it slow, kid. You’re going to cack-’em-out completely tonight. |
In compounds
(US black) a woman who flaunts her wealth, esp. a nouveau riche woman.
Novels and Stories (1995) 1004: Me, I knocks de pad with them cack-broads up on Sugar Hill, and fills ’em full of melody. | ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in||
, | DAS 84/1: cackle-broad cack-broad n. A fashionable, wealthy, or society woman. |