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blood noun- a black person US, 1965
- — J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 167, 1966
- Annette downtown going for broke, while Chicanos and bloods outside the bars beat the nightlight out of po’ trash from across the way, driving them out their territory. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 24, 1969
- They never inquired if the bloods they were giving the jobs to were the same ones who were causing the trouble. — Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, pp. 98–99, 1970
- A young blood stops him, gives him his address. — Ken Kesey, Last Whole Earth Catalog, p. 234, 1971
- “Okay. So he wasn’t a blood.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 464, 1971
- used as a general form of address regardless of race, signalling friendliness UK
From the previous sense; sometimes spelt ‘blud’. - Oi blud, wanna buy a draw? — The Guardian, p. 9, 27 February 2002
- — Julian Johnson, Urban Survival, p. 258, 2003
- wine US, 1959
- — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 151, 1960
- “Ever try blood?” Joe Richards snickered across the room. “The kind distilled from grapes, I mean.” — Clarence Cooper Jr., Black, p. 12, 1963
- I told him like I did every stud / that it wasn’t shit for me to drink two or three fifths a some real good blood. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 89, 1964
- pizza sauce US
- — Maledicta, p. 12, 1996: “Domino’s pizza jargon”
- tomato juice US, 1936
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 7, 1945
▶ make someone’s blood boil to infuriate someone UK, 1848- The thought that such a woman would mock him made his blood boil. — Aron Appelfeld (translated by Jeffrey M Green), The Conversion, p. 35, 1998
▶ your blood is worth bottling you are wonderful AUSTRALIA- To Nino Culotta, therefore, in thanks for this book, I say: “Thanks, mate. Yer blood’s worth bottling”. — Russell Braddon, They’re a Wierd Mob, 1958
- When we rode into Busselton the S.M. said our blood was worth bottling. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 69, 1969
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