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baby
noun- used as a friendly term of address US, 1921
- “Look, baby,” I said, “if you want to cut out of this joint so bad, I’ll take you to Detroit.” — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 89, 1946
- “What’s happening, baby?” said the clerk, a small, wiry Negro with a goatee. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 74, 1965
- This is my generation, baby / My generation. — Peter Townsend (performed by The Who), My Generation, 1965
- The first time I heard the expression “baby” used by one cat to address another was up at Warwick in 1951. Gus Jackson used it. The term had a hip ring to it, a real colored ring. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 171, 1965
- “Hey, baby, you’re my main man,” Davis said. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 86, 1970
- a sweetheart, a girlfriend US, 1839
- Lord, I really miss my baby / She’s in some far off land. — Bob Dylan, Down the Highway, 1963
- a prostitute’s customer US
- Still and all, she had a small minute of indecision when he brought the first hundred-dollar baby to his apartment to meet her. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 32, 1957
- a young, inexperienced male homosexual US
- The biggest crime against the “babies,” who come in through the sewer, is there is usually no other route. — One: The Homosexual Magazine, p. 18, February 1954
- a young performer new to the pornography industry who looks even younger than he or she is US
- — Adult Video News, p. 40, August 1995
- in horse racing, a two-year-old horse US
- — Tom Ainslie, Ainslie’s Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing, p. 327, 1976
- in professional wrestling, a wrestler or other participant designed to be an audience favourite US
A shortened BABYFACE- “I really wish I could leave this place as a baby,” I said, before adding, “This angle’s going to change all that.” — Mick Foley, Mankind, p. 280, 1999
- in the film industry, a screenplay US
- How can someone who is creating a “baby” (screenplay) be given an “assignment?” — Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, p. 64, 1994
- an impressive, large object US, 1907
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 57, 1994
- marijuana US, 1960
- “He say, ‘Man, don’t forgit the baby now!’ He mean bring a few sticks of it out to the field, you see, that’s what he mean by that. He call it ‘charge,’ too. Sho’. Them’s slang names.” — Terry Southern, Texas Summer, p. 82, 1991
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 286, 2003
- a puma or cougar US, 1946
Circus and hunting usage. - — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 12, 1981
- in the television and film industries, a focused 500 watt light source US
- — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 14, 1960
- in poker, a 2, 3, 4 or 5 US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 272, 1979
▶ in baby
pregnant TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1942- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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