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dukes
noun- the hands; fists US, 1859
The singular is “duke”, or variant “dook”, which is probably rhyming slang, formed on DUKE OF YORK - Slippers was a good man with his dukes. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 114, 1954
- Come on Whalen, put up yr. dukes and fight! — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Philip Whalen, p. 542, 16 January 1956
- Then she doubled up her fists and put up her dukes and said she guessed she’d just have to teach Doyle a lesson. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 203, 1971
- He had blown into town with no ’ho. And worse, no wheels and frozen fireworks (jewelry] exploding off his dukes, necessary to cop a star ’ho. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 21, 1979
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 48, 1996
- Being a bit slow and not so handy with my dukes at that point in time[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaw, p. 312, 2001
- cut-off blue jean shorts US
An abbreviation of DAISY DUKES- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, March 1996
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