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[UK] A. Salkey ‘Caribbean Petchary’ Jamaica (1983) 92: Through Quashie’s Grievances, / Baptist’s Pleadings, / Bogle’s squashing Backra’s Rulings.
at backra, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Is the lan’ I want’ Jamaica (1983) 99: White suit, / brown-an’-white shoes, / watch chain, / plenty gol’ teeth, / plenty self, / always feelin’ him balls, / Panama Man.
at balls, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Joshua and Emmanuel’ Jamaica (1983) 76: Bragadap the control / an’ cause some healthy bangarangs!
at bangarang, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Is the lan’ I want’ Jamaica (1983) 99: Plenty big talk, / spliff an’ so, / spondulicks, / Panama Man.
at big talk, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Joshua and Emmanuel’ Jamaica (1983) 76: Bruck up the far back spell, [...] Bragadap the control / an’ cause some healthy bangarangs!
at bradarax!, excl.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Because of 1865’ Jamaica (1983) 45: Wasted plantations, / buggered economy.
at buggered, adj.2
[UK] A. Salkey ‘I into history, now’ Jamaica (1983) 9: You see all them / rass gal jus’ givin’ / all o’ we cock-stan’.
at cockstand, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Saturday in Kingston’ Jamaica (1983) 57: A downtown gal / rolled her hips [...] the sidewalk / slipped away unnoticed, / under her vaseline smooth / patent-leather shoes, / as sidewalks should / under a downtown girl.
at downtown, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Saturday in Kingston’ Jamaica (1983) 54: Costa Rica Charlie / big time banjo, / big like any piano, / under them fenky-fenky fingers / he sportin’ wit’ the gol’ ring.
at fenky-fenky, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Saturday in Kingston’ Jamaica (1983) 70: These fuckin’ people, / fucked as they are, / fuckin’ well believe / in immortality.
at fucked, adj.1
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Saturday in Kingston’ Jamaica (1983) 70: These fuckin’ people, / fucked as they are, / fuckin’ well believe / in immortality.
at fucking, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Saturday in Kingston’ Jamaica (1983) 61: King-pin Boysie Smart / cupped his prick and balls / and shuffled proudly up.
at kingpin, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Is the lan’ I want’ Jamaica (1983) 100: Them sayin’: / ‘I know somet’ing / I wouldn’ tell a man: / corn meal dumplin’ / no kill no Negah man!
at nigger, n.1
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Because of 1865’ Jamaica (1983) 46: You know, too, that / Quashie went to bed, / in the open, / on the banana trash.
at quashie, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Because of 1865’ Jamaica (1983) 44: An’ that rass, Carlyle, / wit’ him Nigger Question / an’ him twis’-up, rancid brain!
at raas, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Saturday in Kingston’ Jamaica (1983) 59: Is what the rass you take me for, eh? / Mus’ a touris’, nuh?
at raas, n.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘I into history, now’ Jamaica (1983) 9: You see all them / rass gal jus’ givin’ / all o’ we cock-stan’.
at raas, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Joshua and Emmanuel’ Jamaica (1983) 2: Member how that same time / was a rygin time, Manny?
at rygin, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey ‘I into history, now’ Jamaica (1983) 10: An’ guess who teach them / an’ you / an’ me / all that slackness.
at slackness (n.) under slack, n.1
[UK] A. Salkey ‘Is the lan’ I want’ Jamaica (1983) 99: Plenty big talk, / spliff an’ so, / spondulicks, / Panama Man.
at spondulics, n.
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