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Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out choose

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[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 395: A bogue religion, man!
at bogue, adj.1
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 396: ‘I got busted, The Man got me. Let me run this broad down, and I’ll give you the cakes’.
at cake, n.2
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 396: ‘You think I’d put game on you for two cent? I got busted, The Man got me. Let me run this broad down, and I'll give you the cakes’.
at cent, n.
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 394: ‘You a trick, Dan—a stiffy,’ Herman said. ‘You so square Little Orphan Annie could put game on you’.
at put game on someone (v.) under game, n.
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 391: The stud is a maniac for broads, doesn’t matter if they are fat, ugly, skinny; let them come, Mac’ll make them quicker than Speedy Gonzales.
at speedy Gonzales, n.
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 392: ‘Let me cop a Benny Franklin until my whoes brings me some dough,’ I said.
at ho, n.1
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 396: The broad continued whispering while Mac destroyed the pig.
at pig, n.
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 394: ‘You a trick, Dan—a stiffy,’ Herman said. ‘You so square Little Orphan Annie could put game on you’.
at stiff, n.1
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 394: ‘Your orders, please,’ the waitress said. ‘I’d like to have you, sugar,’ Logan X said. ‘You foxy thang’.
at thang, n.
[US] W. King Jr. ‘The Game’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 394: ‘You a trick, Dan—a stiffy,’ Herman said. ‘You so square Little Orphan Annie could put game on you’.
at trick, n.1
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381–2: The warm glow of the wine was now leaving the pit of my gut and slowly, pleasantly rising upward toward my head, where it would envelop my brain with that wonderful feeling of don’t-give-a-damnism.
at don’t-give-a-damn (adj.) under not give a damn, v.
[US] M. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381: Having the jug in hand and clearly in the sight of Willie, I expected the first four words out of his mouth to be ‘Save me the corner’.
at corner, n.1
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381: We all proceeded toward the end of the alley with great haste. As we turned the corner, the pace automatically slowed to a crawl, for gamers are never in a hurry.
at gamer, n.
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381: Big Time was it. He was in, baby—really what was happening.
at what’s happening under happening, adj.
[US] M. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 384: I turned the key; there was a slight click, and then the quiet breathing of three hundred horses.
at horse, n.
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381: Big Time was it. He was in, baby — really what was happening.
at it, n.1
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’, in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 382: Hi young lover, what’s happening?
at lover, n.
[US] M. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 384: She said, ‘Crazy, baby; let's motor. The keys are in the switch.’.
at motor, v.
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381: Big Time would score for you, or turn you on to someone in the position to do so.
at turn on, v.
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 383: Through my rose-tinted shades I could see Big Time’s piece. A 1968 Eldorado.
at piece, n.
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 384: Me, driving Big Time’s ’Rada. Hoping he wouldn’t detect the tremor in my voice, I said, ‘Sure thing.’.
at rada, n.
[US] M. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 385: I parked next to Flora's delivery truck, scooted down in the seat, lit up a Kool and relaxed.
at scoot, v.
[US] M.S. Brookins ‘Aspiration’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out (1972) 381: His eyes were mere slits, heavily weighted down by the mellow smoke—light-green marijuana.
at smoke, n.
[US] B.G. Cooke ‘Nonverbal Communication Among Afro-Americans’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 45: The look on his face was readily identifiable among various informants as peeping, which is often associated with digging a girl’s ‘action’ (watching how she moves her derriere).
at action, n.
[US] J. Maryland ‘Shoe-shine on 63rd’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 212: Who said anything about Sweet Blood [...] running around here with Ann?
at ann, n.
[US] D. Dalby ‘The African Element in Amer. Eng.’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 178: buckra – ‘white man’.
at backra, n.
[US] D. Dalby ‘The African element in Amer. Eng.’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 177: bad-eye—‘threatening, hateful glance’.
at bad-eye, n.2
[US] T.M. Kochman ‘The Kinetic Element in Black Idiom’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 161: Other terms, such as [...] ‘gang-banging,’ and ‘rumble’ are ‘noise’ terms.
at gang-banging, n.2
[US] D. Dalby ‘African Element in American English’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 178: Big eye—‘greedy.’ [Footnote:] Dr J.L. Dillard has informed me that this term was rationalized by white Texans as ‘big I’ (in the phrase ‘big I, little you’).
at big I, little you (n.) under big, adj.
[US] J. Maryland ‘Shoe-shine on 63rd’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 210: They seemed to take pride in the fact that they had seen Red graduate from [...] a used T-Bird to a new Eldorado Cadillac.
at T-bird, n.
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