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Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence choose

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[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 100: ‘They amp it [i.e. a confrontation] up, they get excited’.
at amp up (v.) under amp, v.
[US] J. Miller Getting Played 50: ‘Probably be sayin, “You ugly,” callin’ em B's [bitches] and stuff, then they’ll laugh’.
at B, n.4
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 90: ‘It’s some girls that are just wild and don’t care who they sleep with or who they have oral sex with, stuff like that...[Wear] bootie shorts, they be like all up above they hips and stuff’.
at booty shorts (n.) under booty, n.2
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 129: ‘That’s what you would call something like a hoodrat, or a project chick [...] You know, a chickenhead or something. Girls that just like gettin’ dogged out’.
at chickenhead, n.2
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 129: ‘That’s what you would call something like a hoodrat, or a project chick [...] You know, a chick- enhead or something. Girls that just like gettin’ dogged out’.
at chickenhead, n.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 87: ‘[The boys] might just click on ’em and cuss ’em out, call ’em out they name’.
at click, v.5
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 59: ‘It’s babies, little bitty babies walking around with coochie cutters on. You know that they gonna grow up to be freaks’.
at coochie-cutters (n.) under coochie, n.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 137: [of a woman] ‘I guess he just came to her and asked her, “Is you gon’ do everybody?” or whatever and she said “Yeah”’.
at do, v.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 129: ‘That’s what you would call something like a hoodrat, or a project chick [...] You know, a chickenhead or something. Girls that just like gettin’ dogged out’.
at dog out (v.) under dog, v.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 54: ‘Like an older person come through and they'll see a young girl walking through. She can have a pretty shape, pretty face or whatever, and they'll see her and they'll try to dog’.
at dog, v.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 101: ‘Smack her down then, tell her to shut up’.
at smack down, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 51: When girls didn't respond to young men's advances, Antwoin said, ‘they be like, “F [fuck] you, B [bitch]”’.
at eff, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 78: Interviewer: Like what might he say and she says that's not true? Ronald: She faced 'em up [had oral sex with them].
at face up (v.) under face, n.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 56: ’Then [the girls] come out cryin’, sayin “I’m fina go home”’.
at finna, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 101: ‘Don’t be frontin’ now’.
at front, v.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 101: ‘I got into it with a boy because he said something to me. … I said, “Shut up talking to me!” and he got mad. So we just started arguing and stuff.
at get into, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 137: ‘I was getting head. She got to slurping me. [...] I just heard her [making noises]. I'm like, “Damn girl, what’s wrong with you?”’.
at head, n.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 86: Kevin described an incident in which his cousin ‘just started jonin’ on [this girl], talking about her shoes and stuff and made her mad’.
at jone, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 86: ‘The girls, they cool, but they just think they too much’.
at too much, adj.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 144: ‘Boys are so, you know, doing petty stuff to us ’cause they want to get in yo’ panties. You should come to them in a better way instead of trying to rape them ’cause you wanna get in they pants or whatever’.
at get into someone’s pants (v.) under pants, n.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 74: ‘She’ll call him a scrub, he’ll call her a pigeon...Somebody playing too much’.
at pigeon, n.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 74: ‘I call girls names… everything… B’s, ho's, rats, triflin' tramps…. [Those names] be the first thing that come out my mouth to a girl who make me mad.
at rat, n.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 74: ‘She’ll call him a scrub, he’ll call her a pigeon...Somebody playing too much’.
at scrub, n.1
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 100: ‘There’s a crowd around, like they’ll try to soup the girl or boy up to hit them...try to see the action going on’.
at soup up, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 94: ‘Well forget you then. I don't like you anyway with yo' stanking’.
at stank, adj.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 79: ‘They’ll do it to her then she’ll just suck they stuff’.
at stuff, n.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 105: ‘If they try to break up a fight, you might have a student that’ll be bold enough to just swing on a teacher’.
at swing on (v.) under swing, v.
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 120: ‘We had went to a telly [hotel]. It was me, my brother, his girlfriend [...] We was all sharin’ the same room with ’em’.
at telly, n.2
[US] in J. Miller Getting Played 143: ’She said “No” and he smacked her and tossed her up [had sex with/raped her]’.
at toss, v.
[US] J. Miller Getting Played 134: Nearly one-half (45 percent) of the boys we interviewed described having engaged in trains.
at train, n.1
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