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The Free-Lance Pallbearers choose

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[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 97: Man, those kats are always in a hurry.
at cat, n.5
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 100: Trousers known in the forties as ‘cootie drapes.’.
at cootie drapes (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 3: The Nazarene Bishops are a bunch of drop-dead egalitarians crying into their billfolds.
at drop-dead, adj.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 12: When the deal goes down, all the back-sliding Uncle Toms are going to be mowed down.
at deal, n.1
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 129: You gotta watch these eggheads.
at egghead, n.1
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 32: Why don’t you get up off your big funkey sometime and pick up a mop?
at funkey, n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 16: Aw dem white folks done fussed your skull wit all dat crazy talk.
at fuss, v.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 15: Fannie Mae knew the inside dope on everybody in Soulsville.
at inside dope (n.) under inside, adj.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 33: You jamming this ho.
at jam, v.2
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 12: Bring back rukus juice and chittlins.
at ruckus juice, n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 9: Dat Sammy sure can blow the licoric [sic] stick.
at liquorice stick, n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 33: I’m sick of dem sweetback-looking white mens on my wall.
at sweetback (man), n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 29: Where you mannish kids going tonight?
at mannish, adj.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 49: ‘That’ll be five mazumas.’ I shoved the bills into his hand.
at mazuma, n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 16: A ninety-year-old punkish-looking mothball.
at mothball, n.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 84: How did a handicapped mind like yours ever get into judicial robes anyway, you weird-looking little moxy?
at moxie, n.2
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 11: If there were more Negroes like you with tenacity, steadfastness, and stick-to-itiveness, there would be less of these tremors.
at stick-to-it-iveness (n.) under stick to, v.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 9: Dat Sammy sure can [...] tickle da ivory.
at tickle the ivories (v.) under tickle, v.
[US] I. Reed Free-Lance Pallbearers 26: Take it easy, toots.
at toots, n.
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