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[US] 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.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 167: Some people present who’re trying to be so almighty virtuous.
at almighty, adv.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 204: Did you not know, my dear, that balloons were first made from fish bladders?
at balloon, n.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 41: I haven’t been banging with cocaine and morphine.
at bang, v.1
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 57: Did Schooley and Pine sniff snow or take a bang.
at bang, n.1
[US] 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.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 45: Two completely gone beboppers avoiding a houseful of squares to blow a marijuana butt.
at bebopper, n.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 32: You ain’t the first woman to be screwed by a bird.
at bird, n.3
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 158: I’ll boogie your woogie.
at boogie, v.
[US] 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
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 102: Brown Sugar [...] was a big, handsome, [...] smooth, brown, luscious piece.
at brown sugar, n.2
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 17: Them is fairy cats, or else they is bulldiking.
at bull-dyking, n.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 155: What’s buzzin’.
at what’s buzzin’ cousin? under buzz, v.1
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 15: The white cat [...] started catfooting obliquely toward the northern curb.
at cat-foot, v.
[US] 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.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 19: Still cats keep right on catting.
at catting, n.1
[US] 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.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 16: Say, man, ain’t you from Cincinnati [...] Yeah, man, I’m from Cincy.
at Cinci, n.
[US] 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.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 124: No wonder you’re so cummy [...] Piled up with white men.
at cummy (adj.) under cum, n.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 34: They [...] were now looking for some fine hot cunny.
at cunny, n.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 190: Hello, cuz, how’s your fuzz?
at cuz, n.
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 185: The story of two or three score great white ladies going on a dinge binge.
at dinge, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 87: ‘Did you get to see it?’ [...] ‘No, but I’ve heard it’s a doozie.’.
at doozie, n.
[US] 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.
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