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[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II iii: Atta girl, sugar! Hot mama!
at attaboy!, excl.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II iii: M’m! Hell sho’ gwine bust loose now.
at bust loose (v.) under bust, v.1
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II iii: These niggers are cooking up some trouble, officer.
at cook up, v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II i: There’s no Jim Crow in this union, and you knew it when you joined up.
at Jim Crow, n.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II ii: I’m a dock-walloper, Sam, and I pull a truck on these wharves just the same as you do.
at dock-walloper (n.) under dock, n.2
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore I iii: All right, fancy pants. You stay put on yo’ tail.
at fancy pants, n.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore I iii: God damn, I told you dey gyp us out of two hours.
at gyp, v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II iii: Whew! Hot baby! You tell ’em, sugar!
at hot baby! (excl.) under hot, adj.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore I iii: You git funny wid Walcott, and you find yourself head down in a mess of trouble.
at mess, n.1
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore III ii: Listen to that coon! Shut up, nigger. Let’s mop ’em up.
at mop (up), v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore I iii: If dat nigger keeps going up and down de wharf shoot off about wages and organizing all de time, I know just whar he gwine end.
at shoot off, v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II ii: Whew! Mobiling dem sacks sho’ do tucker a body out.
at tucker out, v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II i: lem.: What do you want them to do? Stick with us or scab for Walcott? al.: They’ll scab on you anyway.
at scab, v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore I iii: I went stepping wid Phyllis on Wednesday.
at step, v.
[UK] Peters & Sklar Stevedore II iii: De nigger wench she know de difference between a man and a puffed-up toad when she sees one.
at toad, n.
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