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[US] J.F. Powers ‘the trouble’ in Prince of Darkness 13: The next time we were real sure she wasn’t foxing us before we went to the window and lifted the shade.
at fox, v.1
[US] J.F. Powers ‘the eye’ in Prince of Darkness 192: [D]amn if the nigger don’t start in to sing a song. Like he didn’t know what was what! Like he didn’t know what we come for! That’s what I call a foxy nigger.
at foxy, adj.1
[US] J.F. Powers ‘the eye’ in Prince of Darkness 187: ‘Tonight I just feel like stringing me up a black nigger by the light of the silvery moon! Let’s get gaiting!’.
at get a gait on (v.) under gait, n.
[US] J.F. Powers ‘the eye’ in Prince of Darkness 177: Clyde has got the idee [sic] of taking up a collection for Sleep [...] [I]t is Clyde’s idee and so it is going over pretty big as most of the boys is trying to stay in with Clyde.
at in with, phr.
[US] J.F. Powers ‘jamesie’ in Prince of Darkness 88: ‘Think I better jerk him?’ Bugs was silent, chewing it over. ‘Guess I better leave him in, huh?’.
at jerk, v.2
[US] J.F. Powers ‘the eye’ in Prince of Darkness 177: He is [...] just a nigger that’s deef [sic] and lives over in jigtown somewhere and plays the piano for dances.
at jig-town (n.) under jig, n.4
[US] J.F. Powers ‘the eye’ in Prince of Darkness 183: It’s—un-mis-tak-able ev-i-dence of preg-nan-cy! Get it? [...] Whoa! I don’t have to tell you how that hits the boys at Bullen’s.
at whoa!, excl.
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