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  • sliders
    [cf. DJE spinner small, finger-shaped dumpling shaped by spinning it between the hands] n. long, thin leavened dumplings. <Black>
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  • slide
    [US Black DAS; OED, colloq. to make off, orig. US 1859] v. to leave: Let's slide (Nassau). Let's slide on
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  • slick
    adj. 1. [OED, in good condition (of animals); cf. US slang slick chick an attractive, well-dressed hep girl DAS] attractive
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  • slender friar
    n. a fish, Atherina araea: 1905 (Shattuck 301). <Exuma>
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  • sleep
    [from asleep, by apocope] adj. asleep: 1966 I be sleep (Crowley 121). <Gen.>  I ain't sleeping on him [from the lack
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  • slavery-time
    [cf. BEFORE-TIME adj.] adj. pertaining to the period before emancipation: They say they was slavery-time people (Nassau). <Black>
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  • slang
    [OED, language of a highly colloquial nature] n. 1. the creolized English of the Bahamas, usually called Bahamian dialect: They
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  • slam-bam
     [DJE, immediately; from quick preparation] n. a bologna sandwich: Slam-barn just make out of sausage and bread—no mayonnaise and thing
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  • slake go
     [cf. Cayman slake the line out (Doran 1954:84); cf. OED slake to make slack obs. →1581 + let go release]
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  • sky-lip plum
    See SCARLET PLUM.
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