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change
verb
▶ change address
to leave TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ change tune
to retreat US- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 39, 1991
▶ change water
to engage in an unproductive activity US
From lobstermen, who refer to the hauling and baiting of an empty trap as “changing water.”- — John Gould, Maine Lingo, p. 47, 1975
▶ change your luck
(used of a white person) to have sex with a black person; to have sex with a person of the sex with whom one would not ordinarily have sex US, 1916- The Harlem community accepts–though it despises–these Caucasians who cross the color line, or as it is known above 110th Street, “change their luck” or “deal in coal.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 161, 1948
- Go to bed with a nigger and change your luck. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 327, 1958
- “Sometimes we go over to Little Harlem,” he said, and smacked his lips. “You know, when the luck’s running bad there’s nothing as good as changing it.” — Irving Shulman, The Short End of the Stick, p. 26, 1959
- — Dick Gregory, Nigger, 1964
- Hey, Flo, gonna take the little monkey home with you, change your luck? — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 10, 1964
- She gives me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and says very loud, “Wipe that lipstick off before Mary sees it,” making a joke about how we’re carrying on behind eveyrbody’s back and how, like she says, she’d change her luck if I weren’t married. — Robert Campbell, Cat’s Meow, p. 36, 1988
▶ change your tune
to alter your professed opinion or manner of speech UK, 1578- Mr Portillo changed his tune after the downfall of Lord Archer. — Guardian, 24 November 1999
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