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Little Ham choose

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[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: I’ll blow you from here back before prohibition, and then some.
at and then some!, excl.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: tiny: Who you goin’ with, Sugar Lou? sugar lou: A new hot papa [...] that is, if I can sneak away from my butter and egg man.
at butter-and-egg man, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III i : tiny (Coldly): Hello, Gilbert. gilbert: Don’t bass at me, woman. I ain’t bit you.
at bass, v.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: Well, black my soul: Joe Louis!
at black my soul! (excl.) under black, v.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: I bet two blips, if you was him, you’d be dead!
at blip, n.1
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: tiny: Gussie’s a troublemaker. Always talking. [...] lulu: Yes, she’s too broadcast.
at broadcast, v.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: He takes the soul-case out of you [...] He drives me mad.
at soul-case, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: I don’t duel, I duke, and I’ll choose you out.
at choose (out), v.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III i : ham: Who you callin’ a runt? gilbert: You, you stunted cockroach!
at cockroach, n.1
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III i : Well, hot-damn!
at hot damn!, excl.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: I don’t duel, I duke.
at duke, v.1
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: tiny: Gussie’s a troublemaker. Always talking. opal: For sure! lulu: Yes, she’s too broadcast.
at for sure!, excl.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: tiny: Who you goin’ with, Sugar Lou? sugar lou: A new hot papa [...] that is, if I can sneak away from my butter and egg man.
at go with, v.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III ii : He never was no headache of mine, baby.
at headache, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: Take your hands off that man, you heifer [...] Yes, you’s a heifer! No other she-varmint’d try to take a woman’s man away from her right under her very nose.
at heifer, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: Gilbert warn’t no good for nothing but what my white actress lady where I used to work calls ‘horizontal refreshment’.
at horizontal refreshment (n.) under horizontal, adj.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: Everything I got on is hot. Lemme try on that coat. (hot stuff man gives her the coat).
at hot, adj.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: I’m gonna buy my gal a hot stuff dress.
at hot stuff, n.2
[US] L. Hughes Little Ham 79: Girl, my new man bought me the prettiest velveteen evening coat you ever seen yesterday from a hot selling huck [HDAS].
at huck, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: That little jiver don’t own nothing.
at jiver, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: You done got yourself all tied up with that numbers baron.
at numbers-banker (n.) under numbers, the, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: Smoothest little sawed-off pigmy this side of Abyssinia!
at sawed-off, adj.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III ii : Aw, strut it, Boss!
at strut one’s stuff, v.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham IIi ii: I done broke down one door tonight, and I’ll turn this place out, too.
at turn out, v.3
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: tiny: Who you goin’ with, Sugar Lou? sugar lou: A new hot papa I just met down at the theatre.
at hot papa (n.) under papa, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: tiny (Hands on hips): I’m a real good mama that can shake your peaches down! mattie bea: Sister, my tree’s too tall for you!
at peach, n.1
[US] L. Hughes Little Ham Act II: Mattie, you small potatoes and few in the pot to me now.
at small potatoes, n.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III ii : The couple that [...] has done the best job of real righteous oh-my-soul dancing on the floor.
at righteous, adj.
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III ii : All right now, everybody rock! (Entire crowd begins to dance).
at rock, v.3
[US] (con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham III i : Boy, ain’t you something!
at something, n.
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