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Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920–40 choose

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[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 50: It’s easy as rollin’ off a log.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 58: More hooch, eh? Atta baby!
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 51: If that darky just brings that fur coat, I’ll knock ’em dead. Put on airs with me, will they? I’ll make all the dickties look like ragbags.
at rag bag, n.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 51: If that darky just brings that fur coat, I’ll knock ’em dead. Put on airs with me, will they? I’ll make all the dickties look like ragbags.
at darkie, n.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 51: If that darky just brings that fur coat, I’ll knock ’em dead. Put on airs with me, will they? I’ll make all the dickties look like ragbags.
at dicty, n.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 57: I sure had to shakedown the bootleggers to get enough to buy that!
at shake down, v.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 57: That’s them kids upstairs, honeybunch.
at honey-bun (n.) under honey, n.1
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 51: I thought I told you not to come up tonight? You’re always doing something to jam me! [Ibid.] 53: You know my husband’s coming tonight and you don’t want to jam me, do you?
at jam, v.2
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 51: If that darky just brings that fur coat, I’ll knock ’em dead. Put on airs with me, will they? I’ll make all the dickties look like ragbags.
at knock cold (v.) under knock, v.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 52: You’re not the only nigger in Harlem that wants a good looking mama!
at mama, n.
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 52: Here! what does this mean? You’re five dollars short.
at short, adj.1
[US] G.S. Schuyler Yellow Peril in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 59: Ah, hah! So! Five timing me, eh?
at two-time, v.
[US] A. Hazzard Mother Liked It in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 64: His stunts were all chestnuts.
at chestnut, n.
[US] J. Mitchell Son-Boy in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 85: Dat boy come in dis do’ lak a streak o’ lightnin’. Don’t tell me he ain’t got no rabbit in ’im.
at rabbit, n.1
[US] J. Mitchell Son-Boy in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 83: You’s a piece o’ one stuck up dere in dem britches!
at stuck-up (n.) under stuck, adj.
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 100: Whose the bimbo you’re running away with? Tom Hally?
at bimbo, n.
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 98: Every gal in New York envies you [...] they all nudge each other and says, ‘There’s Jazz Barrett’s gal – Ain’t she the lucky dog!’.
at dog, n.2
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 102: He knew me so well and seemed so glad to see me, that I couldn’t freeze him out.
at freeze out, v.
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 97: Taking French leave?
at French leave, n.
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 100: I didn’t go the limit, Jazz [...] I stayed good till – ’till I met you.
at go the limit (v.) under go..., v.
[US] J.F. Matheus Black Damp in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) Scene i: foots: Yo’ all mek me sick. big steve: Go hang crepe on yourself.
at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 99: Milly’s husband [...] looking for me with a gun! Say, that’s a hot one.
at hot one, n.
[US] J.F. Matheus Black Damp in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) Scene i: Buck Pope dances with my old lady an’ she falls fo’ his smooth tongue.
at old lady, n.
[US] J.F. Matheus Black Damp in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) Scene i: ’Spose yo’ kill that no count scalawag. What good would it do yo’.
at scallywag, n.
[US] R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 104: You didn’t think you could shake me as easy as that, did you?
at shake, v.
[US] J.F. Matheus Black Damp in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) Scene i: You darkies drink too much red eye an’ white mule at them dances.
at white mule (n.) under white, adj.
[US] M. Gilbert Environment in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) II ii: I guess you know Rosa Lee’s canned.
at can, v.
[US] M. Gilbert Environment in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) II i: I met a girl that is just nuts to meet you. You old sheik, she’s coming here this afternoon.
at sheik, n.1
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