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[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 77: An ‘auntie’ was heard pleading with a customer who pretended to be asleep.
at auntie, n.2
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 75: The Black cat gang had learned the techniques of gangsterism at the free ‘bio’ operated by the Bantu Men’s Social Centre.
at bio, n.1
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 73: The ‘Black-Jack’ Municipal police did not see them.
at blackjack, n.2
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 24: Blue-nines rob people by saying they are police. [Ibid.] 44: Not like blue-nines who spend the money they steal from the people on dagga and swanky suits.
at blue-nine (n.) under blue, adj.1
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 68: He was registered as a ‘native’. ‘Kaffir-boesman, the Polisie sal jou nooit pas vra nie!’ ‘Kaffir-bushman, the police will never ask you for a pass.’.
at boesman, n.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 41: Rooiveldt Daries opened new branches [...] and July was sent as ‘boss-boy’ to the East London branch.
at boss boy (n.) under boss, n.2
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 73: You’re wasting time, Ou Bra Black Cat.
at bra, n.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 41: He saw that some of his old ‘home-boys’ [...] had come to visit him.
at homeboy, n.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 37: You can already dress like a white missus, and Jo’burg girls dress like that.
at Joburg, n.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 103: He was my jong. I have a child by him.
at jong, n.1
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 105: The driver demanded a measure of kaffir-beer.
at kaffir beer (n.) under kaffir, adj.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 2: They knew Marabi as a dance party for persons of a ‘low type’ and for ‘malalapipe’, pipe-sleepers, homeless ruffian children.
at malalapipe, n.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 111: The policeman lifted hs knobkerrie and brandished it [...] ‘Pas-op! – Look out!’.
at pas op!, excl.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 105: White men! [...] They like our women, but they don’t like our men to like theirs. Siss!
at sis!, excl.
[SA] M. Dikobe Marabi Dance 109: Voetsek, Tiny, I am not a Marabi girl.
at voetsak!, excl.
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