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[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 178: What the arse happen to you this morning?
at what the arse...? under arse, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 86: They only sit down on the grass bad-talking their employers.
at bad talk (v.) under bad, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 84: What you doing here, coolie? Your area is down South.
at coolie, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 156: Everybody hard-up, and you can’t get a ease-up from your best friend.
at ease-up, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 126: Mango had a friend in the East End, name Hotboy, who was a fellar from Trinidad.
at hot boy (n.) under hot, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 130: ‘John,’ Rahamut turn to the English fellar, ‘you didn’t witness everything?’.
at John, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 134: Catch-as-Catch-Can [...] used to lime out regularly at all the dances it have in Barbados.
at lime, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 84: Who should I see but Little One, doing a window-shop with a sharp piece of skin.
at piece of flesh (n.) under piece, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 185: My girl is very real. She hated the city, I don’t know why.
at real, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 91: By the time the siren blow [...] the gauge ain’t fall, and my bottom hot from sitting down and doing sweet f--- all.
at sweet fuck all (n.) under sweet, adj.1
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 135: It was ruction in the town when the teddies start up on this new dance.
at Ted, n.2
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 127: This was not the first time Mangohead get vap to create calypso.
at vap, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight 133: The Englishman lean back in his chair, smoking a Lighthouse, which is the Barbadian equivalent to a Woods.
at Woods, n.
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