1929 C. McKay Banjo 302: Get some American pep into you and don’t act so African [...] Don’t you know we’ve got to move by the white folks’ schedule time now?at African, adj.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 7: The best of all was the bird uvva time I had in San Francisco with three buddies who hed a guitar and a ukelele between them.at bird, n.1
1929 C. McKay Banjo 7: Why, sure it’s better, you black blubberhead.at blubber-head (n.) under blubber, n.2
1929 C. McKay Banjo 55: Bam! Biff! And the big boss-lady was undertaker’s business before you could squint.at boss lady (n.) under boss, n.2
1929 C. McKay Banjo 296: Ain’t a bumbole thing delicate about a man being perticular what he’s putting away in his guts.at bumbole!, excl.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 10: ‘And none of you fellahs can’t make her?’ cried Banjo. ‘Why you-all ain’t the goods?’ ‘It ain’t that, you strutting cock, but she treats us all like pals.’.at cock, n.3
1929 C. McKay Banjo 162: I’ll slap the sass outa you, you mean little cocoanut-dodger [...] ef you call me any white man’s nigger.at coconut-dodger (n.) under coconut, n.1
1929 C. McKay Banjo 78: Monkey you’ grandmother’s blue yaller outa the red a you’ charcoal-black split coon of a baboon moon! [Ibid.] 183: I know you think a coon is a Negro like Banjo and Ginger, but you’re fooling yourself. They are real and you are a coon – a stage thing, a made-up thing.at coon, n.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 113: You think Ise gwine be everything like you because Ise on the beach? Not on you’ crack!at not on your crack under crack, n.3
1929 C. McKay Banjo 158: ‘Don’t talk crap about home cooking in them monkey islands,’ Banjo interrupted.at talk crap (v.) under crap, n.1
1929 C. McKay Banjo 114: He was also inexpressibly happy when he was just one of the boys cruising the docks.at cruise, v.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 221: You won’t be able to stand them drunk or sober. I know it. You’ll cut a hell of a hog before you know what’s happening.at cut a hog (v.) under cut, v.2
1929 C. McKay Banjo 280: Dengel, who rarely danced, was dogging it with a boy from Grand Bassam.at dog it, v.1
1929 C. McKay Banjo 296: Ise got enough a them francs to blow fifty face-feeders with the few dollars I done change.at feed one’s face, v.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 217: We have words like ofay, pink, fade, spade, Mr. Charlie, cracker, peckawood, hoojah, and so on. The stock is always increasing because as the whites get on to the old words we invent new ones.at fade, n.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 317: They were all going ‘on the fly’ and none of them was thinking of staying with the boat after the trip, but rather of getting to Cuba, Canada, and the United States.at on the fly under fly, n.1
1929 C. McKay Banjo 241: Don’t think I like frigging round officials. I hate it.at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
1929 C. McKay Banjo 115: Let the crackers go fiddle themselves, and you, too.at go fuck yourself! (excl.) under fuck, v.