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[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 140: I would come to no good among the no accounts, burrheads, shines, smokes, charcoals, dinges, coons, monkeys, jungle bunnies, jigaboos, spagingy-spagades, moleskins, California rollers, Murphy dogs, and diamond switchers.
at no-account, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 74: Every popular composer was, in his books, an ‘alligator,’ one who stole the melodies and arrangements of others.
at alligator, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 26: A time [...] when blacks were wanted so desperately that any park ape who could manage long division was admitted.
at park ape (n.) under ape, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 7: He was a cut above the usual jackleg Bible thumpers.
at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 30: Avenue A continued downhill, unpaved as it entered the Bottom. We didn’t have to be told who lived there.
at black bottom (n.) under black, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 33: Aunt Clara’s grandfather was a ‘boss mechanic,’ a carpenter, blacksmith, and wheelwright.
at boss, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 140: I would come to no good among the no accounts, burrheads, shines, smokes, charcoals, dinges, coons, monkeys, jungle bunnies, jigaboos, spagingy-spagades, moleskins, California rollers, Murphy dogs, and diamond switchers.
at burrhead, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 140: I would come to no good among the no accounts, burrheads, shines, smokes, charcoals, dinges, coons, monkeys, jungle bunnies, jigaboos, spagingy-spagades, moleskins, California rollers, Murphy dogs, and diamond switchers.
at California bankroll (n.) under California, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 140: I would come to no good among the no accounts, burrheads, shines, smokes, charcoals, dinges, coons, monkeys, jungle bunnies, jigaboos, spagingy-spagades, moleskins, California rollers, Murphy dogs, and diamond switchers.
at charcoal, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 115: She would not take castoffs from no-butt honkies or pork-chop nationalists.
at pork chop, n.2
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 53: It was only a matter of time before he had his hair konked and rolled up in one of those damp scarves favored by thugs on bad corners.
at conked, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 29: Even if there had been a law against Jim Crow trains, blacks were so scared we would have sat in the colored car.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 111: In case he [...] got scared or was cruised by ‘the Man’.
at cruise, v.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 6: He was, to me, just a poor old darky.
at darkie, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 7: More than one quiet church went to extraordinary lengths to rid itself of the ‘dicty spade’ who wore his learning on his sleeve.
at dicty, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 140: I would come to no good among the no accounts, [...] dinges, coons, monkeys, jungle bunnies, [...] and diamond switchers.
at dinge, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 138: ‘Those flimflams are at the Drop again.’ The aim of the scam was to switch their fake bankroll for your real money, or steal your money outright, if they thought you couldn’t run fast enough.
at drop, n.1
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 72: The Americans asked, ‘What do you boys have against the flag?’ and the British said, ‘You, face-ache.’.
at face-ache (n.) under face, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 7: Surrounded by fired-up types, Grandfather began to bother their heads with visions of his own.
at fired up, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 138: Those flimflams are at the Drop again.
at flim-flam, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 140: I would come to no good among the no accounts, burrheads, shines, smokes, charcoals, dinges, coons, monkeys, jungle bunnies, jigaboos, spagingy-spagades, moleskins, California rollers, Murphy dogs, and diamond switchers.
at Murphy dog (n.) under Murphy (Game), the, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 115: He fished out five dollars and gave the MG the gas.
at give (it) the gas (v.) under gas, n.1
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 59: Uncle Castor climbed from the passenger’s side [...] ‘What’s your story, Morning Glory?’.
at what’s the story (morning glory)?, phr.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 149: That most notorious of ‘gut classes,’ the History of Television.
at gut, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 63: The six or seven other black students looked through him, but behind his back called him a ‘high hat’ because his instructors thought well of him.
at high hat, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 85: They had my sisters’ permission to make comments about my ‘high-water’ trousers. They said my cuffs fell so high above my shoes I wouldn’t have to roll them up in a flood.
at highwater, adj.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 129: I didn’t know whether to think of congenial, self-abnegating Trots as the hobos or the church group that ran the relief house.
at hobo, n.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 44: Not until I can get Arnez to get a honey dripper to do something about those drain-pipes.
at honey-dipper (n.) under honey, n.1
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 123: ‘You’ve been hornswoggled,’ Grandfather said.
at hornswoggle, v.
[US] D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 7: He was a cut above the usual jackleg Bible thumpers.
at jackleg, adj.
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