1838 J. Hogg Tales (1866) 372: When the bishop flung the water on your boy’s face, how the little chub looked at him.at chub, n.1
1965 A. Baraka in Tales (1969) 89: OK, be intellectual, go write some more of them jivey books.at jivey (adj.) under jive, adj.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 79: The late show at the National was turning out, and all the big hats there jumped right in our line.at big hat (n.) under big, adj.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 80: Then the knives came out, the razors, all the Biggers who would not be bent, counterattacked.at bigger thomas, n.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 16: I know some of you who’d better be in your rooms [...] hitting those books.at hit the books, v.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 10: Me and Chris had these D.C. babes at their cribs [...] Oooooo, that was some good box.at box, n.1
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 42: J. [...] broke bad because Augie, Norman, and white Johnny were there.at break bad (v.) under break, v.2
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 20: Yeh. They call this cat [i.e. a homosexual] Dick Brown. Hoooo!at brown, adj.2
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 61: Before he even looked at the bag Bob said, ‘O.K., which one of you faggots burned me?’.at burn, v.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 19: You better quit inferring that shit about Ray. What you trying to say, ol’ pointy head is funny or something?at funny, adj.3
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 76: Gator would strut up and down the stage [...] shaking his long gassed hair.at gassed, adj.2
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 73: Some stuck-up boy with ‘good’ hair.at good hair (n.) under good, adj.1
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 13: Will you listen to this little pointy head bastard calling me funny looking.at pointy-head, adj.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 79: Five or six hundred hopped-up woogies tumbled out into Belmont Avenue.at hopped (up), adj.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 82: I was only maybe a year and a half in, with another year and a half to go.at in, adv.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 21: Is it you saying that Hutchens and my man here are into some funny shit?at into, prep.3
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 13: I told you not to take Organic . . . as light as you are.at light, adj.
1967 A. Baraka Tales (1969) 13: You better start thinking about him [i.e. a professor] or you’ll punch right out. They don’t need lightweights down in the valley.at lightweight, n.