Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US black) a wheelbarrow.

1918		DN IV 18: Georgia-buggie, a wheelbarrow.
1928		J. Callahan Man’s Grim Justice 105: Now let’s see if y’ can cause a riot with one o’ them ‘Georgia buggies’ (wheelbarrows).
1942		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 21 Mar. 16: ‘They [...] put a North Carolina fork in my hand an’ put me behind a Georgia buggy’.
1952		C. Himes Cast the First Stone 32: The snow had softened and was slushy and the wheelbarrows churned it into heavy muck. Rolling those ‘Georgia buggies’ was a killing job.
1965–70		in DARE.
1998		Zack et al. Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality 127: In many cases, however, the conveyor belt has replaced the wheelbarrow or the Georgia buggy.

2. a wheeled rail used to transport racks of clothes.

1936

‘Hectic Harlem’ in N.Y. Amsterdam News 8 Feb. sect. 2: GEORGIA BUGGY. – A dress truck.

(US) watermelon.

1971

H.E. Roberts Third Ear n.p.: Georgia ham n. watermelon.

(US) gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB).

2011

F. Bill ‘Rabbit in the Lettuce Patch’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Pulled the small vial of liquid from his pocket. Some Georgia Home Boy.

(US) grits.

1944		P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: Georgia ice cream . . . grits.
1972		in DARE.
1984		R. Wilder You All Spoken Here 83: Georgia ice cream: Grits.
2004		restaurant guide at www.blueridgemountains.com 🌐 Of course, there’s Georgia ice cream – i.e. grits – for breakfast, along with hot cat-head biscuits with honey or sorghum syrup.

(US) coasting or freewheeling in order to save petrol.

1990

S. Morgan Homeboy 222: Slipping into sweet Georgia overdrive for the long downhill coast.

(US gay) a black man.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 62: black man [...] Georgia peach.

(US black) a kind of card-game.

1938		C. Himes ‘Pork Chop Paradise’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 256: The sinners [...] who customarily played Georgia skin down at the lower end of the dormitory.
1945		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 21 July A14: He liked to play ‘dirty hearts’ [or] ‘Georgia skin’.
1964		R. Abrahams Deep Down In The Jungle 141: He said, ‘Mr. Monkey, if it ain’t my friend. / We gonna play some “Georgia Skin”.’ ‘Raise! That ain’t my game.’.
1967		R. Conot Rivers of Blood 164: Games played include craps, poker, blackjack and Georgia Skin, a cross between dice and poker in which three dice are used—4:5:6 or three of a kind being high, a pair of sixes beating a pair of fives, etc.
1969		C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 121: ‘What you folks playing? [...] Skin?’ ‘Georgia skin? Where?’.