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Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 348: You see, Roy wants to be a big time sweetback.at big-time, adj.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 348: You see, Roy wants to be a big time sweetback. Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 327: Hot chance I gotta vamp, what with Basil messin’ ’round an’ —.at fat chance, n.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 329: I cut class tonight so I could help finish things up for the party.at cut, v.4
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 330: Marry! I ain’t fixing to marry nobody, nevah!at fix, v.1
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 337: Do it, you dirty-no-gooder.at no-gooder, n.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 317: Well, you needn’t get so hincty bout it.at hincty, adj.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 354: Colored folks don’t like the idea of being jacked up by colored cops. We gotta be careful, or they’ll frame us.at jack up, v.2
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 333: Let me tell you som’pin, Mister Holier-Than-Me!at Mr, n.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 315: Dem four flights sure tuckers a body out.at tucker out, v.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 350: Don’ you stan’ dere an’ sass Ma.at sass (out), v.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 331: He’s some hot papa.at hot papa (n.) under papa, n.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 339: You God damn yaller pimp! I’ll get you! An’ when I get you, I’ll slit your dirty guts!at pimp, n.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 322: father: Hello, son, how’s tricks? jasper: Pretty hard scufflin’.at scuffle, v.
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 347: the kid: I’m Kid Vamp. [...] I likes all the ladies. cordelia: Heavy sugar papa – eh?at heavy sugar (n.) under sugar, n.1
Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 322: A couple of tough babies begins scrappin’ an’ de neighbors called de police.at tough baby (n.) under tough, adj.
(ref. to 1890s) Harlem 84: Forty-sixth Street had ‘a large colony of the poorest colored people’ in the 1890’s, and was popularly known by the choice epithet ‘Nigger Row’.at nigger row (n.) under nigger, n.1
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