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[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 271: What you doing messing ’round in my yard?
at mess about, v.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 270: [to a dog] Eat it, you buzzard.
at buzzard, n.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 268: He’s choosing ’em [...] offering to fight ’em.
at choose (out), v.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 269: Here, you ’gator mouthed egg-sucker.
at gator-faced (adj.) under gator, n.2
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 265: Me go make heap much pow-wow at stinkydog carnival.
at heap, adv.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 268: We gotta stop cussing and playing the dozens if we’re going to be boy scouts. Those white boys don’t play that mess.
at mess, n.2
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 264: Mister Know-it-all Buster challenged me.
at Mr, n.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 267: ‘Let’s step on the gas!’ The scene danced below us as we ran.
at step on the gas (v.) under step on, v.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 266: I bet with them she could work up some outrageous spells!
at outrageous, adj.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 268: Man, the white folks know what that fool is signifying on that horn, they’d run him clear out of the world.
at signify, v.
[US] R. Ellison ‘A Coupla Scalped Indians’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 264: We coulda barbecued a damn elephant while we was waiting for a tough sucker like that to get done.
at sucker, n.3
[US] E.J. Gaines ‘Just Like A Tree’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 194: I mean these studs are ’way out. I mean like ’way back there.
at way back, phr.
[US] L. Bennett Jr ‘The Convert’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 161: ‘They say you are going to chicken out, Papa.’ ‘Chicken out? What that mean?’ ‘They’re betting you’ll “Tom”.’.
at tom, v.
[US] E.J. Gaines ‘Just Like A Tree’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 196: Mama [...] done whop me on the leg with Daddy belt.
at whop, v.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 303: By now, two-three other hipsters have also eased in, all planning to cop a beg since it was evident that Logan X was pretty clean and just might be open to said beg.
at cop a beg (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 304: I was running from the Man [...] Hauling ass, man.
at haul ass, v.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 308: When a cat gives a bagman dough, he loses everything if the bagman gets copped.
at bagman, n.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 303: He was a booster downtown [...]. Could steal ten-twelve vines in one go round. Sometimes he’d let me cop a V or a Benny for nothing. [Ibid.] 304: Let me cop a Benny Franklin until my whore brings me some dough.
at Ben Franklin, n.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 302: Mac sat quiet most of the time, grunting now and then, as though in reply to Glorie’s bogue chatter.
at bogue, adj.1
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 303: He was a booster downtown a little time back. Could steal ten-twelve vines in one go ’round.
at booster, n.2
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 305: You sho got a niaz box, baby! [...] See how she shakes that thang?
at box, n.1
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 306: He was neat from toe to stingy.
at stingy-brim, n.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 309: This doll is a champ on the sheets! She is brutal; death on sheets, man!
at brutal, adj.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 302: The stud is a maniac for broads [...] let them come, Mac’ll make them quicker than Speedy Gonzales. And they knock him out. I ain’t jiving. I mean he passes out after a bust. Out. O-U-T. Like Liston when Cassius hit him upside the head.
at bust, n.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 304: Hey, mamma, you putty thang ... shorr look foine. Come mere, let Hoim give you this buzz.
at give someone a buzz (v.) under buzz, n.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 302: Looking drugged ’cause I done blew his fast cop. He musta got there two-three seconds before I did ’cause it don’t take too long to cop Glorie.
at cop, n.2
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 305: Stacked broads rushed in on the arms of stiffies straight from the cornfields; you know – them cats with the cowboy hats and ice-cream suits.
at ice-cream suit (n.) under ice-cream, n.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 304: I’m dead, brother [...] I need a dime to get some Lipton.
at dead, adj.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 309: This doll is a champ on the sheets! She is brutal; death on sheets, man!
at death on, adj.
[US] W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 302: I was in a mellow position. Had a joint next to her pad; could dig out the window.
at dig, v.3
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