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[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 222: All you have to worry ’bout is one lil’ ding-a-thing when you got a boy . . . but when you got a girl, you got to worry ’bout all the ding-a-things on the block!
at ding-a-ling, n.2
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 17: Sweet Peeter D. cocks his lid ace-deuce.
at ace-deuce, adv.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 211: I’m not goin’ to waste a lot o’ time shuckin’ ’n jivin’.
at shuck and jive, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 150: Kwendi shakes his hand again, straight-arrow style this time.
at straight-arrow, adj.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 174: We all know you hung up on that funny-ass horn you playin’ and all.
at -ass, sfx
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 116: I wish some jinny-ass nigger would even dare try to approach me with some of the bullshit . . . ha!
at jenny-ass, n.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 131: Get to the point, brother! And stop b.s.in’ ’round!
at b.s., v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 196: Fergy [...] hits the bottom step of the front stoop, heading for the great b.s.
at b.s., n.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 86: I’m really in a bag, you dig . . . ?
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 155: Thank you, old bean . . . better luck next time.
at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 10: Go ’head and play! That’s one o’ them habitual bitchers! Don’t nobody never complain about us playin’ down here but him!
at bitcher (n.) under bitch, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 117: There go Fred Lee again, bo’gardin’ the smokes.
at bogart, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 55: Gimme eight bones ’n put it on. Twenty carat gin-u-wine Swiss!
at bone, n.4
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 84: The city of Marseilles . . . fantastic booyea base.
at boo-ya, adj.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 127: We had to pay for that damn ham . . . which makes it [...] a helluva lot different from boostin’.
at boosting, n.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 69: Committin’ any kind of little funny, off-brand crime in order to make sure I had a wake-up shot.
at off-brand, adj.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 12: Adjusting and readjusting his large, white-rimmed burgundy brim.
at brim, n.2
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 52: Black cul-tural nationalism, my buns!
at my buns! (excl.) under buns, n.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 216: Kwendi snatched his piece and burned ’im!
at burn, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 149: With all that bush Lubertha has on her head these days, she’s gonna have t’ play with it awhile.
at bush, n.1
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 12: Haul ass ’less you want t’ get a cap busted in it!
at bust a cap (v.) under cap, n.2
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 55: Gimme eight bones ’n put it on. Twenty carat gin-u-wine Swiss!
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 121: I’ll catch y’all later.
at catch you later under catch, v.1
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 120: I’m ’pectin’ some change to be laid on me in a lil’ while.
at change, n.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 126: Everything is cool … we stand in the checkout line, chit-chattin’.
at chit-chat, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 21: Awwwright . . . that’s cool . . . we’ll check . . . you. [...] We’ll check you out later on.
at check, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 79: Why don’t you cats put your coins together and get some good wine?
at coin, n.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 57: That sho’ musta been a cold shot for her t’ find her T.V. gone.
at cold shot (n.) under cold, adj.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 174: I plays when my Thang comes down on me.
at come down on, v.
[US] O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 21: Awwwright . . . that’s cool . . . we’ll check . . . you.
at that’s cool under cool, adj.
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