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‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 7/1: To ‘con’ means to put ‘the bump’ on a ‘cat,’ to ‘run a game’ on somebody, to work on his mind for goods and services.at put the bump on (v.) under bump, n.1
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 7/1: To ‘con’ means to put ‘the bump’ on a ‘cat,’ to ‘run a game’ on somebody, to work on his mind for goods and services. ‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 11/1: Style [...] may be expressed in the loose walk, the jivey or dancing walk, the slow, cool walk, the way one ‘chops’ or ‘makes it’ down the street.at chop, v.2
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 10/2: Middle-class Negroes who must deal with the organization and coordination of activities in church and elsewhere will jokingly and critically refer to a lack of standard time sense when they say that Mr. Jones arrived ‘CPT’ (colored people’s time).at colored people’s time, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/2: Survival requires that a hustling dude know who is cool and uncool (who can be trusted).at cool, adj.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/1: Time is dead when one is in jail.at dead time (n.) under dead, adj.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/1: One is ‘doing dead time’ when nothing is happening, and he’s got nothing going for himself.at dead time (n.) under dead, adj.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 n.p.: Survival requires that a hustling dude know who is cool and uncool (who can be trusted); who is in power [...]; who is the ‘duker’ or the fighter (someone to be avoided or someone who can provide protection).at duker, n.2
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/1: Time is high on Friday nights when the ‘eagle flies’ and the gig begins.at when the eagle shits (n.) under eagle, n.2
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 6/2: ‘I don’t hustle because there’s no security. You eventually get busted.’ Others said there was not enough money on the street or that it was too difficult to ‘run a game’ on people.at run (a) game on (v.) under game, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 5/1: Street people are known also by their activities — ‘duking’ (fighting or at least looking tough), ‘hustling’ (any way of making money outside the ‘legitimate’ world of work), ‘gigging’ (partying).at gig, v.5
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 5/1: The dudes could be found when they were ‘laying dead’ — hanging on the corner, or shooting pool and ‘jiving’ (‘goofing’ or kidding around) in a local community project.at goof, v.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 5/2: Such expressions as [...] ‘getting down to the nitty-gritty,’ and ‘soul’ can be retraced to Negro street life.at get down to the nitty-gritty (v.) under nitty-gritty, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 11/1: Street people are known also by their activities—‘duking’ (fighting or at least looking tough), ‘hustling’ (any way of making money outside the ‘legitimate’ world of work), ‘gigging’ (partying)—and by their apparent nonactivity, ‘hanging’ on the corner.at hang, v.3
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 6/2: When I asked the question, ‘When a dude needs bread, how does he get it?’ the universal response was ‘the hustle’ .at hustle, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 11/1: Style may [...] be expressed in the loose walk, the jivey or dancing walk, the slow cool walk, the way one ‘chops’ or ‘makes it’ down the street.at make it, v.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 11/1: Style [...] may be expressed in the loose walk, the jivey or dancing walk, the slow, cool walk, the way one ‘chops’ or ‘makes it’ down the street.at jivey (adj.) under jive, adj.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 6/2: On the other hand, the employed, the part-time hustlers, usually said, ‘A dude could make it better on the job than on the street’.at on the job under job, n.2
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 6/2: Except for a younger set member who was still in school, all were dropouts, or perhaps more accurately kicked-outs.at kickout, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 6/1: The dudes could be found when they were ‘laying dead’ — hanging on the corner, or shooting pool and ‘jiving’ (‘goofing’ or kidding around) in a local community project.at lay dead (v.) under lay, v.1
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 7/1: When the checks come in for child support, it’s ‘mother’s day’.at mother’s day (n.) under mother, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/2: When one knows what’s happening he can operate in many scenes, providing that he can ‘hold his mud’ (keep cool and out of trouble).at hold one’s mud (v.) under mud, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 5/1: [I]n 1963 a really sharp Los Angeles street Negro would be ‘conked to the bone’ (have processed hair) and ‘togged out’ in ‘continentals.’ Today ‘natural’ hair and variations of mod clothes are coming in style.at natural, n.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 7/1: [T]he hustler ‘burns’ people for money, but he also ‘rips off’ goods for money.at rip off, v.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/2: [I]n Ghost-town when the hustler moved, he usually moved alone and on a small scale. His success was on him.at on, prep.
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 8/1: The dudes ‘rap’ and ‘jive’ (talk), gamble and drink their ‘pluck’ (usually a cheap, sweet wine).at pluck, n.2
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 5/2: One either knows ‘what’s happening’ on the street, or he is a ‘lame,’ ‘out of it,’ ‘not ready’ (lacks his diploma in street language), a ‘square’.at not ready (adj.) under ready, adj.
‘Time and Cool People’, in Trans-action 4 n.p.: The more or less organized center of street life is the ‘set’—meaning both the peer group and the places where it hangs out.at set, n.1
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 6/1: In 1965 and 1966 I had intensive interviews with 25 set members [...] Cowboy, was a white dude of 25. He had run with Paddy (white), Chicano (Mexican), and Blood (Negro) sets.at set, n.1
‘Time and Cool People’, in Trans-action 4 6/1: Sometimes we taped individuals, sometimes ‘soul sessions.at soul session (n.) under soul, adj.1
‘Time and cool people’ in Trans-action 4 5/1: Street culture exists in every low income ghetto. It is shared by the hustling elements of the poor, whatever their nationality or color. In Los Angeles, members of such street groups sometimes call themselves ‘street people,’ ‘cool people,’ or simply ‘regulars.’ .at street, adj.
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