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Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 84: One day after we became aces we had our first fight.at ace, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 84: One day after we became aces we had our first fight. Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 429: All the shit you been through and you’re all up in the sky like this.at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 363: He started working for Brother So-and-So down at his rib joint.at so-and-so, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 20: Buddy was caught ringing a cash register in a five-and-dime store.at five and dime, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 315: I’ll turn you on to a freak; she is a stone animal.at animal, n.1
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 427: He’d found out by putting the arm on some junkies.at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 19: Nigger, you got an ass-whippin’ comin’.at ass-whipping, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 354: How the hell are you gon stop bein’ mad when you’ve got a foot up in your ass?at have a foot up one’s ass under ass, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 354: You got to try and take the foot out of your ass.at take the foot out of one’s ass under ass, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 274: He’s just gon have to kick my ass, or I’m gon have to kick his ass.at kick ass, v.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 240: These cats were blowing their horns, their axes, whatever they had.at axe, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 269: The psychiatrist would say that I had complexes and all this. That was a lot of B.S.at b.s., n.
(ref. to 1951) Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 178: The first time I heard the expression ‘baby’ used by one cat to address another was up at Warwick in 1951 [...] The term had a hip ring to it, a real colored ring [...] It was like saying ‘Man, look at me, I’ve got masculinity to spare.’ It was like saying at the same time to the world, ‘I’m one of the hippest cats, one of the most uninhibited cats on the scene.’.at baby, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 279: The way I felt about it, I should have been their parents, because I had been out there in the streets, and I wasn’t as far back in the woods as they were.at back in the woods (adj.) under back, adv.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 305: When someone would say something about a bad cat, they meant he was good. Somebody would say, ‘That was some bad pot,’ meaning it was good.at bad, adj.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 37: She said I just thought I was too bad and was always messing with somebody.at bad, adj.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 50: A bad nigger was a nigger who ‘didn’t take no shit from nobody’ and even ‘crackers’ didn’t mess with him.at bad nigger (n.) under bad, adj.
(con. 1940s) Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 305: They didn’t mean he was running out in the street cutting somebody’s throat, carrying a gun and cursing. But this was all that a bad nigger meant to Mama and Dad.at bad nigger (n.) under bad, adj.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 301: I could tell her about the bad mouth, because this was something she knew.at badmouth, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 17: They were both bagged a week later for smoking pot.at bag, v.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 87: Nick was the most beautiful cat up at Wiltwyck.at beautiful, adj.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 112: Bebopping was gone, it was out of style, it was for kids.at bebop, v.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 398: If I go to court and the bench man throws a dime on me I’ll walk with that too, Sonny.at bench-man (n.) under bench, n.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 110: They were snorting this horse, and this horse was making them bend; it was making them itch and nod and talk in heavier voices.at bend, v.3
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 318: I just got out of Sing Sing. I did three years on a one-to-five bid.at bid, n.2
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 212: He said that Turk took it big and was an all-right cat.at take it big (v.) under big, adv.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 100: Mamam never acted biggety in court, but she would bow her head only so low.at biggity, adv.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 170: I gave him half a bill, fifty dollars.at half-a-bill (n.) under bill, n.3
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 20: They [i.e. policemen] would always promise to beat us over the head with a billy.at billy, n.4
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 118: Johnny was always telling us about bitches. To Johnny every chick was a bitch. Even mothers were bitches. Of course, there were some nice bitches, but they were still bitches. And a man had to be a dog in order to handle a bitch.at bitch, n.1
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