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Playin’ the Dozens 322: The learning and practice of techniques of nonpunitively intervening physically with a youngster's out-of-control aggressive surface behavior took place [...] techniques such as: [...] How to use a ‘come along’ to remove a child. Playin’ the Dozens 198: Sometimes, ‘loud mouthing’ or ‘loud talking,’ ‘sounding,’ ‘screaming on someone,’ or even ‘bogarding’ are synonyms for ‘woofing’. (ref. to 1950s) Playin’ the Dozens 73: In the early ’50s we had the ‘bopping’ or fighting gangs with mass fights or ‘rumbles’ between gangs as they guarded their ‘turf,’ territory, or neighborhood. Playin’ the Dozens 258: he suburban youngsters [. . . .] talked about nonphysical ways of ‘getting away with things’ [. . . .] Some of their suggestions included: 1. How to ‘brown’ the teacher. Ribbin’, Jivin’, and Playin’ the Dozens in Major (1994). Playin’ the Dozens 134: [H]e elicited from the youngster the fact that buggin’, in his neighborhood meant ‘let’s go—let’s fight’. Playin’ the Dozens 91: New York City police report some 9,500 ‘clique’ members, ages 13 to 30, in the South Bronx. Playin’ the Dozens 48: [T]he expression ‘country’ is used to describe someone who is newly arrived in the city. It is not necessarily an insulting or threatening term. The term often is used as a kidding term. Playin’ the Dozens 144: Often when used with gang names L.A.M.F. is usually accompanied with D.T.K. which means ‘down to kill’ . Playin’ the Dozens 211: I knew I had done something right when one of the students put his hand out for some dap and returned it after I had given him some skin. Playin’ the Dozens 183: [A] black Buffalo junior high school student told me that his friends use the term dippin’ to refer to ‘gettin’ into personal things’ . Playin’ the Dozens 131: The next day, when asked what he meant by ‘down with,’ he responded, ‘You know, the guys they drink with, smoke pot with’. Playin’ the Dozens 186: A youngster makes fun of someone's pants by teasing him about the length of the trousers. This may take the form of referring to someone's pants as Pacific Oceans, floods, or high waters. [. . . .] The implication is that the pants are too short for the youngster's height. Playin’ the Dozens 125: [T]he white male teacher may say, ‘She’s a sharp lookin’ chick (or broad).’ His black student may say, ‘Jim, she fly’ . Playin’ the Dozens 122: freak (good, nice). Playin’ the Dozens 256: We have not solved the problem of discipline in inner city schools because we have not been willing to come to grips and discuss openly some gut issues. Playin’ the Dozens 148: Most of New York City's over 6,000 subway cars have been ‘hit’ (to hit something is to write on it) with graffiti. Playin’ the Dozens 345: [T]he youngster with a somewhat street ‘jones’ is moving beyond the game of self-destruction. [...] He is testing his teachers by demanding of them, ‘Why don’t you teach me?’. Playin’ the Dozens 198: Sometimes, ‘loud mouthing’ or ‘loud talking,’ ‘sounding,’ ‘screaming on someone,’ or even ‘bogarding’ are synonyms for ‘woofing’. Playin’ the Dozens 183: The term ribbin’ [...] is used in Buffalo to describe the verbal game of taunting, denigrating, or making fun of someone [...] In Oklahoma it is called medlin’. Playin’ the Dozens 183: The term ribbin' or ribbing is used in Buffalo to describe the verbal game of taunting, denigrating, or making fun of someone [...] In the primarily white northern suburbs of Buffalo, New York, the game [. . .] is referred to as mocking out. Playin’ the Dozens 51: When a male has a female’s nose, she is in his power, which usually means she is his to do with as he pleases sexually. Playin’ the Dozens 186: A youngster makes fun of someone's pants by teasing him about the length of the trousers. This may take the form of referring to someone's pants as Pacific Oceans, floods, or high waters. [. . . .] The implication is that the pants are too short for the youngster's height. Playin’ the Dozens 91: More recently, gangs, fraternities, cliques, organizations, and ‘rat packs’ have again begun to be reported. Playin’ the Dozens 52: My informants [in Buffalo, NY] tell me that the letters in ‘phat’ stand for ‘pussy,’ ‘hips,’ ‘ass,’ and ‘tits,’ or a ‘pretty hole at times’. Playin’ the Dozens 246: To be hip you carry an Afro ‘pick’ around with you to ‘pick’ out your bush while you're sitting in class; then you can stick the pick in your bush for safekeeping until the next class. Playin’ the Dozens 248: [P]art of my psyching routine consisted of [...] clenching my fists, shutting my eyes, and saying something to myself like, ‘[. . . .] I am a man—I'm twenty-three years old—I'm a veteran—I will not take any more of their crap’. Ribbin’, Jivin’, and Playin’ the Dozens in Major (1994). Ribbin’, Jivin’, and Playin’ the Dozens in Major (1994). Playin’ the Dozens 125: [T]he white male teacher may say, ‘She’s a sharp lookin’ chick (or broad).’ His black student may say, [...] ‘She a phat chib,’ or ‘She a boss tip’.