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[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 132: ‘Okay Rita, break a leg.’ Show-business talk. I grinned.
at break a leg!, excl.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 36: ‘You turn tricks?’ [...] ‘No I do not.’ How could she ask such a question? ‘Well, you sure look like a trickster. Your face and everything.’.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 93: You think because of your all-fired principle some of the men won’t feel like putting their white sheets on and riding over here to stir up trouble?
at all-fired, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 165: He opened his pants. Dignity rode his face bareback.
at bareback, adv.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 161: You a cherry, ain’t you?
at cherry, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 113: You truck on down to the candy store / And bust your conk on peppermint candy.
at bust one’s conk (v.) under conk, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 155: My silly dilly wife stopped letting me have any.
at dilly, adj.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 160: Clara runs a straight house. No three-way girls and no freak parties.
at freak party (n.) under freak, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 52: ‘You like grifa?’ ‘Yes. I smoke.’.
at greefo, n.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 169: They won’t let you smoke hemp.
at hemp, n.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 162: When you turn the first trick, you’ll be a ’ho. A stone ’ho.
at ho, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 158: Old hot-tailed bitch. I know what she wants.
at hot-tailed (adj.) under hot, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 91: I’ll slap you into the middle of next week if you even dare open your mouths again.
at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 166: They tell you how beautiful you are [...] And wonder what you’re doing being a whore all the time they’re jugging in you.
at jug, v.3
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 162: I’m a damn good one. I’m a mud-kicker. In the streets I make more money by accident than most bitches make on purpose.
at mud-kicker, n.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 91: Now, take that filthy pattern and stick it you-know-where.
at you know where, n.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 206: He reminded me of the phrase often used to describe me, ‘A long drink of water’.
at long drink (of water) (n.) under long, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 91: I shall call you Miss Idiot, Miss Stupid, Miss Fool.
at Miss, n.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 43: And we can have a ham [...] Nigger ham. A watermelon.
at nigger ham (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 38: Lots of white women trust their babies with me [...] Can’t you just see them? Snotty-nosed little things growing up talking about ‘I had a colored mammy.’ Huh?
at snotty-nosed, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 13: ‘Busting some goddam suds.’ Disgust wrinkled his face.
at bust suds (v.) under suds, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 162: I’ll be back switching and bitching and getting merry like Christmas.
at switch, v.1
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 160: Clara runs a straight house. No three-way girls and no freak parties.
at three-way girl (n.) under three-way, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 3: Hadn’t we all joined together to [...] put that little rice-eating Tojo in his place?
at Tojo, n.
[US] (con. 1945) M. Angelou Gather Together In My Name 113: Dream about a reefer five foot long [...] You’ll be high but not for long / If you’re a viper.
at viper, n.
[US] T. Price-Thompson Gather Together in My Name 132: I get my head bad, yeah, but I stay up on what’s going with my people too.
at get one’s head bad (v.) under bad, adj.
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