1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 115: She was as tight as a boiled owl when she reported for duty.at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 167: Some people present who’re trying to be so almighty virtuous.at almighty, adv.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 204: Did you not know, my dear, that balloons were first made from fish bladders?at balloon, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 189: She was black and blue enough afterwards to sing the gospel.at I’ll make you sing o-be-joyful on the other side of your mouth under o-be-joyful, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 45: Two completely gone beboppers avoiding a houseful of squares to blow a marijuana butt.at bebopper, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 21: Most Negroes live together [...] in their own communities, such being known as black-belts, dark-towns, nigger-slums, fly-burgs, smoke-villes or simply colored districts.at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 113: I blitzed him, honey. You couldn’t squeeze out another drop [i.e. of semen] with a steam roller.at blitz, v.2
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 44: Mr. Bile, whose mouth was working az though he had a bone stuck down his throat, or was desirous of one. [Ibid.] 182: What she wanted now was a big piece of solid meat with a bone in it.at bone, n.1
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 204: ‘Gave her quite a bop, eh what?’ [...] ‘As beautiful a straight right to the belly as I ever saw.’.at bop, n.1
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 102: Brown Sugar [...] was a big, handsome, [...] smooth, brown, luscious piece.at brown sugar, n.2
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 15: The white cat [...] started catfooting obliquely toward the northern curb.at cat-foot, v.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 21: Most Negroes live together [...] in their own communities, such being known as [...] ‘Catfish Row,’ and ‘Possum Run,’ and ‘Chitterling Switch.’.at Catfish Row, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 21: Most Negroes live together [...] in their own communities, such being known as [...] ‘Catfish Row,’ and ‘Possum Run,’ and ‘Chitterling Switch.’.at Chitlin Switch (n.) under chitlins, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 16: Say, man, ain’t you from Cincinnati [...] Yeah, man, I’m from Cincy.at Cinci, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 166: He had a profound respect for colored ladies when they had gotten their color up.at get one’s color up (v.) under color, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 124: No wonder you’re so cummy [...] Piled up with white men.at cummy (adj.) under cum, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 185: The story of two or three score great white ladies going on a dinge binge.at dinge, adj.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 46: In Harlem idiom a square is a lain, a doe, a John, a mark – in other parlance a fool.at doe, n.1
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 82: Wallace went once more to water the dog.at take the dog for a walk (v.) under dog, n.2
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 87: ‘Did you get to see it?’ [...] ‘No, but I’ve heard it’s a doozie.’.at doozie, n.
1961 C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 69: What other reason would Mamie have [...] if it wasn’t to trick that droopy-drawered bitch into her house?at droopy-drawers, n.