shine adj.2
(W.I./US) black or pertaining to black culture.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Down the Line 90: If Mr. Sousa ever catches them, there’ll be a couple of shine chord-squeezers away to the bad. | |
| Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 327: Him an’ the shine friend sunk their hooks intuh ten thousand! | |
| You Should Worry cap. 10: If Victor Herbert ever catches them there’ll be a couple of shine chord-chokers away to the bad. | |
| (con. 1900s–10s) 42nd Parallel in USA (1966) 335: Lookin’ for that damn shine steward to kill him. | |
| (con. 1920s) Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 337: They’re going to a goddamn shine cabaret. | |
| Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 18: Shines. Another shine killing. That’s what I rate after eighteen years in this man’s police department. | |
| Tomboy (1952) 25: That’s shine music. | |
| Blue Knight 312: A humpbacked shine man. | |
| True Confessions (1979) 3: A good walker with a good chewer [...] With a shine mayor as his best friend. | |
| ‘Hollywood Fuck Pad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 216: Shine killings went down fast. |
In compounds
(US) a nightclub featuring entertainment by black jazz musicians; it may also be patronized by a primarily black clientele.
| Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 11: ‘Shine box,’ he said angrily, under his breath. | |
| City in Sl. (1995) 71: The plain English box [...] has long been used in American slang for a night club or dance hall; a shine box, a multi-layered racist pun, was such a place in Harlem. |
1. an illicit liquor-selling establishment [shine n.4 (1)].
| Maledicta III:2 171: shine jointn Illicit establishment. |
2. a nightclub patronized by a primarily black clientele.
 | Singing Off 139: Don’t kid yourself [...] If you were like you used to be, would you be in a shine joint like Frankie Hern’s. |
(US) a derog. name for any predominantly black area of a town or city.
| Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 168: If they don’t produce, I’ll have ’em transferred to Shinetown. |