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If He Hollers Let Him Go choose

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[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 92: I heard the manager saying to the Arky Jill, ‘You’ve got to go out with them’.
at Arky, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 51: [A] short, squat, black, harelipped Negro with a fine banana-skin chick on his arm.
at banana, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 43: [S]ome stud said, ‘Light, bright and damn near white; how does that nigger do it?’.
at bright, adj.1
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 221: I felt buck-naked and powerless, stripped of my manhood.
at buck-naked (adj.) under buck, n.1
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 190: He’d stopped outside in the companionway to bull with a guy.
at bull, v.1
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 42: ‘He work on a ‘chine down in de back end’ [i.e. of a workshop].
at ’chine, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 49: ‘Los Angeles is the most overrated, lousiest, countriest, phoniest city I’ve ever been in’.
at country, adj.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 140: Me and my goddamned two-cent pride, I thought; my cut-rate muscle and my blind dukes.
at cut-rate, adj.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 54: I called the best hotel in town [...] and made reservations for a deuce at nine o’clock.
at deuce, n.1
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 13: I mashed the starter and dug off without hearing the rest of it.
at dig out, v.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 122: Pigmeat turned to Smitty and said, ‘Now that’s that man’s own business. S’pose he tell you he was with you mama’ ‘I don’t play no dozens, boy,’ Smitty growled.
at dozens, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 88: She gave me a look. ‘Waste my good earth on you, a sad nigger like you, to have you duck out on me again?’.
at duck out, v.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 140: Me and my goddamned two-cent pride, I thought; my cut-rate muscle and my blind dukes.
at duke, n.3
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 127: ‘I was going down to the A.C. on Thirty-fifth Street, learning how to duke’.
at duke, v.1
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 12: ‘By God, here’s a man wakes up evil every morning’.
at evil, adj.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 48: ‘You married?’ he asked. I shook my head. ‘Still in the field’.
at in the field (adj.) under field, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 158: Then I said, ‘Look, baby, you really got me’.
at get, v.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 143: ‘What she needs is a good going over by someone’.
at going-over, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 127: I run into this gray boy [...] and we got to jawing ’bout a ruff we found on the street.
at gray boy (n.) under gray, adj.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 165: Ella Mae said, ‘So you got another heavy on tonight’.
at heavy, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 139: And the hell of it was he could make a weak-minded chump fall for ’em [i.e. specious arguments].
at hell of it, the (n.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 151: I just couldn’t walk into this woman with so much white inside her.
at walk into, v.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 155: [H]e wanted to kill me because I had seen him lose it.
at lose it, v.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 138: ‘The whole movement ain’t little Jesus Christ to me,’ I said.
at little Jesus Christ (n.) under Jesus, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 29: ‘This boy’s really a killer, got all the little brown girls in a dither about him’.
at killer, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 49: [W]e talked about cars [...] The boy from Frisco said, ‘Of course if I had my way I’d take a Kitty’.
at kitty, n.3
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 127: Man, I was bad [...] Man, I dared them chumps to open their chops.
at man, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 28: He was a tall, rawboned, merriney-looking Negro with kinky reddish hair and brown freckles.
at meriny, adj.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 140: Me and my goddamned two-cent pride, I thought; my cut-rate muscle and my blind dukes.
at muscle, n.
[US] C. Himes If He Hollers 51: It was a slick, niggerish block—hustlers and pimps, gamblers and stooges.
at niggerish (adj.) under nigger, n.1
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