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buckwheats noun- abuse, persecution US, 1942
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 98, 1950
- He gave me the buckwheats, this sergeant. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 202, 1955
- diminution of power or standing in an organised crime enterprise US
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua cosa nostra”
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