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[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 5: A nigger hash-hustler in a dump like this making like he was at the Ritz!
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 251: Then I realized that I’m married to a Negro, that I’m up against it. Oh, dear God!
at up against, phr.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 122: I think you may say I’m an out-and-out Liberal.
at out-and-out, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 300: Your friend Dexter got the axe.
at axe, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 133: He had bought a two-room shack where he ‘bached it’.
at bach (it), v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 31: I keep telling these colored agitators [...] that they do more harm to my race than any mean buckra.
at backra, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 159: He was the owner and chief ballyhooer of a vast shed down on South Champlain Avenue and East Winchell Street.
at ballyhoo, v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 108: He would not jimcrow it and bar out Negro customers.
at bar, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 205: On the field of honor, those bellyachers can’t take it.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 169: This ain’t any sermon that I’m going to give you! It’s a plain bellyache!
at bellyache, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 226: Any failure now on the part of your ‘better half’ to earn a living will, as hitherto, be compensated for by the charity handed out by your [...] Papa.
at better half, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 135: I like the white fellows I work with better than the biggerty guys Miss Sophie talks about.
at biggity, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 142: I don’t want to go on blabbing this.
at blab, v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 84: He saw a young blade in a zoot-suit.
at blade, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 136: [of men] The reason for segregation is that otherwise the blues would marry all the white women.
at blue, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 238: That evening, Clem had a few other bombs.
at bomb, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 81: I heard it from some pretty high-ranking brass on the Other Side.
at brass, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 25: I thought they’d slink off repentantly in his car (which is quite a bus, by the way).
at bus, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 231: So obliging in their butterfingered offers to take from her a burden of sorrow that neither of them could understand.
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 185: I’d like to hang every buttinsky that helps any nigger to go to college.
at buttinski, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 175: A fly-by-night joint like this.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 224: Now they caught you with your pants down and you are nothing but a nigger.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 136: Most of us sables would rather marry a gal like Sophie than a chalkette.
at chalk, n.3
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 109: I never have thought of coming out as a Negro.
at come out, v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 237: The Deep South had again seceded from the American Constitution, and this time they were supported by more Northern Copperheads.
at copperhead, n.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 91: Dis-here congoleum of crapshooters is powuhful lakly to perish in dat ole lake of fire.
at crap shooter (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 125: His mission now was [...] to bedevil white college presidents who approved of jimcrowing.
at Jim Crow, v.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 66: He belonged with the other lepers in a day-coach – in a Southern jimcrow day-coach. [Ibid.] 121: There is no reason under heaven why American citizens should be compelled to travel in jimcrow cars.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 230: The way Neil was cutting up may have had a bad effect on the old man.
at cut up, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 292: The white folks are disgusted with these rug-cutters and slick-chicks that try to act like they’re the same as white folks.
at rug cutter, n.
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