1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 118: Ain’t goin’ round lickin’ no white ass if I kin ever kick it.at arse-lick, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 100: Who do you think you are, the Queen a Sheba? Jus’ cause you can sing you want everybody to kiss your ass.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: Oh, Bonnie, you don’t know your ass from your elbow.at not know one’s arse/ass from one’s elbow (v.) under arse, n.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 24: We just bum a ride to the city before the alarm gets out.at bum a ride (v.) under bum, v.3
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 94: Most every night they would wake us up doin’ their business. I could hear them roll over; the springs would squeak.at do the business (v.) under business, n.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 20: Bluebell’s hair glowed like ebony; it was straight and soft, the envy of all the girls, for she never had to grease or ‘bust’ it.at bust, v.1
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 62: As they passed a dog began to howl. ‘Cheese it!’.at cheese it!, excl.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 84: They all knew the rules were old chestnuts, dusted off every time a girl ran away.at chestnut, n.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 115: Any time someone gets fresh you try to make a chib fight out of it.at chiv, n.1
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 46: I want to have some fun before I get old, do some rugcuttin’ an’ go out with the boys.at rug cut, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 137: You think they give ’em the third degree? ... Maybe they hit ’em with a rubber hose.at third degree, n.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: As soon as somebody gets funny you got to smack ’em down.at funny, adj.2
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 113: If anyone gets it in the neck it’ll be Mis’ Dulcy, not us.at get it in the neck, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 83: Hope they ketch ’em, give it to ’em good; them niggers is too wild.at give it to, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 118: Owned one of them grease parlors, had two or three girls workin’ there off an’ on, manicurin’, cuttin’ hair, bustin’ naps.at grease parlor (n.) under grease, n.1
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 73: They always wanted to knock a trot. They musta sneaked out durin’ the dancin’.at knock a trot (v.) under knock, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 116: ‘She runa round with them ofays?’ ‘Don’t ask me. I don’t have nothin’ to do with the white girls.’ [...] ‘I thought maybe she had a taste for white meat too.’.at white meat, n.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: If you live on the hill and got straight hair so you don’t have to get your naps busted and kin marry a yella fella and git your pitcher in the paper, sassiety, then you can chew the fat all day long.at naps, n.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 114: ‘Go on, Bonnie!’ the girls cried [...] ‘Sap ’er up, oil ’er up!’.at oil, v.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 51: ‘You’re a percy,’ Tony went on, hoarse with fury.at percy, n.1
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 114: ‘Go on, Bonnie!’ the girls cried [...] ‘Sap ’er up, oil ’er up!’.at sap, v.2
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 170: Men’s voices, deep and harsh: ‘Get along there, none a your sass’.at sass, n.1
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 83: Now they’re gonna put the screws on us, clamp down, all on account a them niggers.at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: She was workin’ as a sud-buster an’ give him ten dollars toward one a them sharp green suits with broad pointy shoulders an’ a narrow waist.at sharp, adj.
1941 F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 25: She ran down the stairs. ‘Ain’t got nothin’ on me.’.at have something on someone (v.) under something, n.