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dozens
noun
a game of ritualistic insult US, 1915- “I don’t play no dozens, boy,” Smitty growled. “You young punks don’t know how far to go with a man.” — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 102, 1945
- Lots of other games sprang up for the same reason: snagging, rhyming, the dirty dozens, cutting contests. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 230, 1946
- Playing the Dozens — American Speech, pp. 148–149, May 1950
- “Watch out, man, I don’t play the dozens,” the second one said. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 63, 1965
- He would play the dozens, have rock fights, and curse us out. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 84, 1965
- This was the “dozens,” a game of insults. The dozens is a dangerous game even among friends[.] — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 121, 1967
- You talking about my dead mother? I don’t play the dozens, kid. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 71, 1968
- Hordes of children–throwing peanut shells, popcorn, dead spiders and roaches at the glass cage–followed the procession down the streets, eating cotton candy and playing the dozens about Max and the Governor. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 187, 1969
- In the clean dozens some of the insults are directed at the other’s mother, but most are directly personal. — Roger Abrahams, Positively Black, p. 40, 1970
- I hear through an open window the profane chanting of teenagers playing a merry game of ghetto dozens (dozens–the denigration of another’s parents or ancestors) that explodes in a montage of pain, bright as flame, that shocks my brain. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 19, 1971
- Two cats would meet on the street and start playin’ the dozens; one guy would say, “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your mother has a pussy like a Greyhound bus.” — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 10, 1975
- [G]oing head-to-head with someone using snaps [taunts, insults]–playing the dozens–is a battle for respect. — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 54, 2000
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