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Soulside 44: ‘It’s just a hi and bye thing, you meet and then you see a lot of each other for a while, and then somehow you don’t see each other too much, and that’s the end of it,’ as one young woman said.at hi and bye, phr.
Soulside 44: ‘It’s just a hi and bye thing, you meet and then you see a lot of each other for a while, and then somehow you don’t see each other too much, and that’s the end of it,’ as one young woman said. Soulside 89: [W]ife and older children may shun the husband and father who is a ‘fooling [sic] around,’ while he [...] continues to find little satisfaction in family life.at fool around, v.
Soulside 83: A man who ignores this rule too conspicuously, appearing in clothes of many bright colors not considered matching, may be branded a ‘bama’; the word is derived from ‘Alabama’ and denotes an ignorant rustic.at Bama, n.
Soulside 145: The ghetto dialect may be referred to as ‘big feet talk’—poor people down south got big feet because they could not afford shoes.at big feet (adj.) under big, adj.
Soulside 24: Today’s bootleggers in the area do not make their own liquor but buy it at a discount and sell it at higher prices—something like 25 per cent higher than regular store prices.at bootlegger, n.
Soulside 196: Black people [...] should learn to value their ascribed selves. Their notion of beauty should not be ‘light, bright, and damn near white’.at bright, adj.1
Soulside 25: Especially among some younger people, a motive occasionally offered for remaining in the ghetto is racial solidarity. Leaving less fortunate ‘brothers’ behind is ‘copping out’.at brother, n.
Soulside 20: I told him, ‘Child, I couldn’t care less if you come or not!’.at child, n.
Soulside 141: [A] certain number becomes very popular, so that a hit on that number would cause the bankers a significant loss. To prevent this, the agent may declare that the number has to be ‘cut"—this would bring down the payoff on a hit.at cut, v.6
Soulside 62: ‘I earn good money, you know, with those two jobs [...] So this means I got a lot to spend just fucking up.’ .at fuck up, v.
Soulside 99: [T]he streetcorner men who affirm their own natural tendency toward promiscuity often talk about whatever they see as female infidelity in moral terms. ‘That bitch is a gypsy, that’s all she is’ .at gypsy, n.
Soulside 85: ‘Thank you, Jesus,’ Fats says mockingly, imitating a storefront church preacher.at thank you, Jesus! (excl.) under Jesus, n.
Soulside 114: [G]hetto dwellers are worried about crime and violence in their environment—‘This place is nothing but a jungle. Nothing but a jungle’.at jungle, n.
Soulside 98: [W]e may note the concept of the ‘bad motherfucker’, used more often by men in largely appreciative statements on this kind of counter-mainstream supermasculinity. The emcees at the Howard use a euphemism, the ‘bad motorcycle’).at motorcyle (n.) under motor, n.
Soulside 105: ‘You just get together and try to be sociable, that’s all,’ one man puts it. Somewhat less charitably, another man says: ‘You just sit there and let your mouth run’ .at run one’s mouth (off) (v.) under mouth, n.
Soulside 141: Many of these numbers runners are known to be available at certain hours at given places, such as certain street corners or bars.at numbers runner (n.) under numbers, the, n.
Soulside 95: ‘It’s hard if you ain’t got no money and your man steps out on you, it’s real hard’.at step out on (v.) under step out, v.
Soulside 166: White people are being typed by black people, as ‘crackers’, ‘grays’, ‘Whitey’, ‘Mr. Charlie’, ‘ofays’, ‘PWT’ (poor white trash), ‘honkies’, or ‘blue-eyed blond devils’.at p.w.t., n.
Soulside 79: Alvin was claiming to be a pimp in the wider sense of the ghetto—a man supported by a woman ‘’cause she loves him so’.at pimp, n.
Soulside 110: Wouldn’t go anywhere near her now, though, with my old lady . . . Don’t know what kind of shit that old bitch could start if they met’.at start shit under shit, n.
Soulside 149: Soul music is the area where the current concept of soul may have its strongest roots. James Brown is ‘soul brother number one", Aretha Franklin ‘soul sister number one’ .at soul brother number one (n.) under soul, adj.1
Soulside 65: ‘I walk my walk and talk my talk’ is a ghetto phrase for minding one’s own business.at talk that talk and walk that walk under talk, n.
Soulside 68: I don’t say I don’t ever taste liquor, I get together with buddies like Leroy on a weekend and we drink together, and now and then maybe we get tore up.at tore up, adj.
Soulside 84: It is a cold evening in January as Fats and Bee Jay are working their game [i.e. persuading acquaintances to give them small sums].at work a game (v.) under work, v.
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