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in Black Metropolis (1946) 100: ‘Don’t have to go to the buzzard roost at shows’ [...] Semi-humorous colloquial name for the Jim-Crow balcony in southern theaters.at buzzard roost (n.) under buzzard, n.
in Black Metropolis (1946) 100: ‘Don’t have to go to the buzzard roost at shows’ [...] Semi-humorous colloquial name for the Jim-Crow balcony in southern theaters. Black Metropolis 521: People with slight education, small incomes, and few social graces are always referring to the more affluent and successful as ‘dicties,’ ‘stuck-ups,’ muckti-mucks,’ ‘high-toned folks, ‘tony people.’.at muck-a-muck, n.
Black Metropolis 568: He was always watching her and signifyin’ she was turning tricks with Slick.at turn a trick, v.2
Black Metropolis 547: Clothes are both an end in themselves and an adjunct to the social ritual of this café au lait society.at café au lait, adj.
Black Metropolis 502: I was the darkest child in the family [...] My brothers and sisters used to call me ‘tar baby.’.at tar baby, n.
Black Metropolis 577: The dilapidated houses on the margins of the Black Belt.at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
Black Metropolis 567: With a hophead daddy and a booze houn’ mammy. How he ever gonna be a doctah?at booze-hound (n.) under booze, n.
Black Metropolis 573: A damn bull-diker who’s been messing with women here.at bull-dyker, n.
Black Metropolis 499: Any entrepreneur who is trying to be particularly ‘classy’ feels a bevy of light girls desirable.at classy, adj.
Black Metropolis 496: When ‘fair’ (i.e., light-skinned) Negroes seem inordinately proud of their skin-color [...] Bronzeville calls them ‘color-struck’.at color-struck, adj.
Black Metropolis 496: One color-struck woman told an interviewer that she liked dark-skinned people ‘in their place ... I mean I like them, but not around me’.at color-struck, adj.
Black Metropolis 568: I wisht they’da let them creepers take you to the station!at creeper, n.
Black Metropolis 485: He amassed a fortune from the nickels and dimes that he ‘cut’ from crap games at his ‘emporium’.at cut, v.6
Black Metropolis 521: People with slight education, small incomes, and few social graces are always referring to the more affluent and successful as ‘dicties,’ ‘stuck-ups,’ muckti-mucks,’ ‘high-toned folks, ‘tony people.’.at dicty, n.
Black Metropolis 595: Casual pick-ups available for a ‘good time’ [...] are regarded not as prostitutes but as ‘freebys’-the passing of money becomes not so much a commercial transaction as a token of appreciation for a ‘good time.’.at freebie, n.
Black Metropolis 477: Do not play too many different gigs. Put all your energy on one set and wait. Do not be impatient and jump from gig to gig.at gig, n.7
Black Metropolis 568: After a day of imbibing Christmas cheer [...] She must have been a little slug-happy.at -happy, sfx
Black Metropolis 444: One of the most general criticisms of negro merchants is the charge the ‘they are stuck up,’ or ‘hincty’.at hincty, adj.
Black Metropolis 567: With a hophead daddy and a booze houn’ mammy. How he ever gonna be a doctah?at hophead, adj.
Black Metropolis 719: ‘Hot Lips,’ twenty-five years of age and a native of St. Louis.at hot-lips (n.) under hot, adj.
Black Metropolis 456: While they doin’ this, the lazy Negro is jitterbuggin’.at jitterbug, v.
Black Metropolis 611: Then (as one ‘tapper’ expressed it), ‘Johnnie Nab comes through and takes every “cat” and his brother to California’ (i.e., to the jail on California Avenue).at Johnnie Nab, n.
Black Metropolis 484: A ‘kickback’ of perhaps half a million dollars a year to ‘downtown’ makes the policy racket a lucrative one for the machine in power.at kickback, n.1
Black Metropolis 500: The few Negroes light enough to pass for white are liable to obscene taunts about the way they acquired their white blood, or can be ridiculed as ‘rhynies’ if they have reddish hair.at rhynie, n.
Black Metropolis 568: He was always watching her and signifyin’ she was turning tricks with Slick.at signify, v.
Black Metropolis 521: People with slight education, small incomes, and few social graces are always referring to the more affluent and successful as ‘dicties,’ ‘stuck-ups,’ ‘muckti-mucks,’ ‘high-toned folks,’ ‘tony people.’.at stuck-up (n.) under stuck, adj.
Black Metropolis 574: On Easter day both were ‘togged down.’.at togged down (adj.) under togged, adj.
Black Metropolis 521: People with slight education, small incomes, and few social graces are always referring to the more affluent and successful as ‘dicties,’ ‘stuck-ups,’ muckti-mucks,’ ‘high-toned folks,’ ‘tony people.’.at tony, adj.
Black Metropolis 546: The ‘real uppers’ may look askance at ‘the racketeers’ and their wives.at upper, n.1
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