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[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 285: Kopasetee: an approbatory epithet somewhat stronger than all right.
at copacetic, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 11: Come across. [...] Presently she handed him two bills which he stuffed into his waistcoat pocket.
at come across, v.
[US] 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.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 285: August ham: watermelon.
at August ham, n.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 208: Are you white or coloured tonight? Buckra, of course.
at backra, n.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 158: You’d better bant, Lutie, suggested Dr. Lister.
at bant, v.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 208: Bardacious! agreed his companion.
at bardacious, adj.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 37: You see, I haven’t a bean.
at bean, n.1
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 157: She’s the berries at that, was Olive’s comment.
at berries, the, n.1
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 86: These boys all know I cleaned up big in the theatre.
at big, adv.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 11: Presently she handed him two bills.
at bill, n.3
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 260: You won’t say that to me, you dirty bitch!
at bitch, n.1
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 183: They won’t blab on you.
at blab, v.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13: Blues, smokes, dinges, charcoals, chocolate browns, shines, and jigs.
at blue, n.1
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 157: I’m too blue for that pink-chaser.
at blue, adj.6
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 215: Now [...] you’ve gone white, do you really want [...] pinks for boody?
at booty, n.2
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 285: boody: see hootchie-pap.
at booty, n.2
[US] 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
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 285: brick-presser: an idler; literally one who walks the pavement.
at brick-presser (n.) under brick, n.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 267: You’re not going back to that cheap brown-skin again, are you?
at brownskin, n.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 212: There’s no good bucking the game. It isn’t worth it.
at buck, v.2
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 12: ‘Atlantic City Joe’s?’ ‘Too many pink-chasers an’ bulldikers.’ ‘Where den?’.
at bull-dyker, n.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 37: You bum, you!
at bum, n.3
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13: Blues, smokes, dinges, charcoals, chocolate browns, shines, and jigs.
at charcoal, n.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13: Blues, smokes, dinges, charcoals, chocolate browns, shines, and jigs.
at chocolate, n.1
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 86: These boys all know I cleaned up big in the theatre.
at clean up, v.
[US] Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 85: You could do anything in Harlem you wanted with that bunch of coin.
at coin, n.
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