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chinch; chintz
noun
a bedbug US- I found out then that chinches never die. When they get tired of scuffling for their chow and want to retire, they just go and live happily forever after in the Band House. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 34, 1946
- We called them chinches, and they were all over the place, hard-biting armies in constant battle formation[.] — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 9, 1951
- One night as I awoke a little wee chintz spoke to me as I raised my head / He said, “Don’t you get rough and don’t you get tough, for you and I both must share this bed.” — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 211, 1966
- Her dead didn’t feel too good and her mouth tasted like she had been eating Harlem chinches. — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 187, 1971
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