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  • clip out
    v.phr. to remove legs and claws (of crabs): I put Nell to clip out some crab. (Andros, San Sal.)
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  • cline
    See IN THE CLINE
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  • cleavers
    /kliyvaz/ [cf. W3 clave /klávey/ Am. Sp. keystone "one of a pair of cylindrical wooden sticks used as percussion instruments by being struck
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  • clear, clare
    /klia/ v. 1. [DJE idem; OED, to explain] to solve (a riddle): 1925 Clare this riddle (Finlay 295). 1966 If you could find
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  • clear
    adj. 1. [Car.; OED, of women: beautiful, fair obs. → 1578] of a light-brown complexion: 1785 A Negro man. . . of
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  • clean
    v. 1. [OED, said by servants of making themselves clean] to wash oneself: [to a child at bedtime] Go clean! (San Sal.). [to
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  • claws: a round o' claws
    [by analysis of applause as a plaws, influenced by claws in reference to the hands] n. phr.  a round of
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  • claver
    /kláva/, clower /kláwa/ [cf. OED clabber to curdle, + /b, v, w/ alternation] v. to turn sour:  The milk claver
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  • clap your hip
    [cf. HIP buttocks a Yoruba gesture of scorn (Oyedeji p.c.)] v. phr. to make an insulting gesture. (Black)
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  • clap somebody up
    v. phr. to applaud somebody. (Eleu., Exuma)
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