1925 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 285: Kopasetee: an approbatory epithet somewhat stronger than all right.at copacetic, adj.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 39: I don’t give a damn where you go, just so you get out of here.at not give a damn, v.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 11: Come across. [...] Presently she handed him two bills which he stuffed into his waistcoat pocket.at come across, v.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 192: He caught phrases: posin’ an’ signifyin’, high-toned mustard-seed, arnchy yaller boy. [Ibid.] 194: One of ’em called me arnchy.at arnchy, n.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 208: Are you white or coloured tonight? Buckra, of course.at backra, n.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 157: She’s the berries at that, was Olive’s comment.at berries, the, n.1
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13: Blues, smokes, dinges, charcoals, chocolate browns, shines, and jigs.at blue, n.1
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 215: Now [...] you’ve gone white, do you really want [...] pinks for boody?at booty, n.2
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 8: Anatole exposed his pearls. Bottle et, he suggested. [Ibid.] 51: Bottle it, Howard, Olive cried.at bottle it, v.1
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 285: brick-presser: an idler; literally one who walks the pavement.at brick-presser (n.) under brick, n.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 267: You’re not going back to that cheap brown-skin again, are you?at brownskin, n.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 12: ‘Atlantic City Joe’s?’ ‘Too many pink-chasers an’ bulldikers.’ ‘Where den?’.at bull-dyker, n.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 63: We’re more or less like the others when it comes to handing the bunk to the ofays.at bunk, n.2
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 85: If she don’t there’ll be some fancy carvin’ ... Adora cut a scar in the air.at carve, v.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13: Blues, smokes, dinges, charcoals, chocolate browns, shines, and jigs.at charcoal, n.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13: Blues, smokes, dinges, charcoals, chocolate browns, shines, and jigs.at chocolate, n.1
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 86: These boys all know I cleaned up big in the theatre.at clean up, v.
1926 Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 85: You could do anything in Harlem you wanted with that bunch of coin.at coin, n.