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  • pinky
    [cf. US Black Pinkie a very attractive light-skinned colored girl (Sebastian 1934:288) and pink boy white male (Folb); OED pinky
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  • pink conch
    [from the bright pink lip of its shell] n. a variety of conch, Strombus sp.: 1977 Some shells, such as..
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  • pink
     [DJE, the butter bird or roseate stilt; OED, the chaffinch; from its cry] n. a bird (sp?): 1977 red-winged blackbirds,
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  • pine-yard
    [from OED pine coniferous tree + yard enclosed land planted with trees] n. pine forest: 1910 Pine-yard, as the pine
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  • pine-slip
    [cf. PINE] n. the leafy crown of the pineapple, used for planting: 1895 B'Goat was eatin' the pine-slips (Edwards 81).
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  • pineapple land
    [from its suitability for growing pineapples] n. See the quot.: 1905 Red land or "pine-apple land" consists of a red
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  • pineapple
    [from its resemblance to the skin of the fruit] n. a style of plaiting STRAW1. (Gen.)
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  • pine
    [Car.; from Am. Sp. pina, anglicized in 1600's DJE] n. the pineapple plant, Ananas comosus, or its fruit: 1880 The
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  • pincher
    See PILCHER.
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  • pimp, pimper
    n. [cf. PIMP v. 1] a person who passes on incriminating information; a police informer: 1981 A key spokesman for
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