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  • cut-ass, cut-skin
    [Trin. idem (Winer p.c.); cf. CUT v. 1 to strike; also ASS, SKIN referring to body in general] n. beating:
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  • cut
    v. 1. [OED, to lash; cf. also Haitian koupe to cut; to whack HCEFD] to strike: 1966 He broke a
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  • cut
    n. 1. [cf. a cut of meat] a piece (of something baked): 1918 I stopped to beg de rich lady
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  • custard apple
    [Car.; cf. DJE idem "pulpy, custard-like fruit" but cf. also OED costard apple (Old Fr. coste rib) a large ribbed
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  • cuss-cuss
    [Atlantic; cf. DJE koskos "cf. Twi kasákàsa to dispute; contend in words, but iden­tified often with English dialect cuss curse. .
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  • cushy
    /kúshi/ [cf. CUSHIE 2] adj. (of girls) arro­gant, proud. (Eleu.)
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  • Cushie
    /kúshi/ n. 1. [cf. DJE Quashie. . .cf. Twi Kwàsi, name for a male born on the first day of the
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  • cush-cush
    /kush kush/ [cf. DJE khus-khus cf. OED cuscus the long fibrous aromatic root of an In­dian grass...a perfume made from the grass
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  • curved accent: have a curved accent
    [etym?] phr. to use US Black slang. (Nassau, Eleu.)
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  • curve
    See CURB
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