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set
noun- a neighbourhood; a specific place in a neighbourhoodwhere friends congregate US
- This was the way people in our set did things. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 176, 1965
- Ya baby, I’m going up on the set. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 95, 1972
- [T]he player is out “on the set,” moving through the “scene” of the city’s night life. — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 12, 1972
- Everybody from Washington Square to Tompkins Square called the streets “the set”–as in “I’ve been looking for you all over the set, man.” — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 192, 1975
- Elijah! heyyyy blood! Wha’s happenin’? I heard you was back on the set. Where you been keepin’ yourself? — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 122, 1977
- But Slick might be out checking up on her, or one of these chumpas out here on the set might rat on her to him. — John Sayles, Union Dues, pp. 180–181, 1977
- The group of brothers nodded in return. “You guys know whether or not Kenyatta is on the set?” Billy inquired as he stopped in front of the group. — Donald Goines, Crime Partners, p. 48, 1978
- That nigga roll upon the set one more time I swear I’m gonna fuck him up. — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
- a neighbourhood faction of a gang US, 2001
- “If you’re doing something for the community in the revolutionary struggle,” Huey told them, “we’ll join your set.” — Bobby Seale, Seize the Time, p. 113, 1970
- Shane knew you didn’t usually get a street name unless you’d been “jumped in the set”[.] — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 147, 2001
- Claudia had retired from her Crip set after being blinded in a shotgun attack[.] — Rolling Stone, p. 77, 12 April 2001
- a party, especially a party with music US
- — Current Slang, p. 5, Fall 1966
- The set is on the fifth floor and the floor is creaking an’ groaning under the weight of all the coolies that are swinging. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 59, 1967
- a group of breaking waves AUSTRALIA, 1963
- I stood in the parking lot, watching the sets build. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 188, 1987
- a woman’s breasts AUSTRALIA
- “Hey, Jow, there’s a good set,” one will cry. (A “set,” for your information, is a bosom.) — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 58, 1967
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 191, 1968
- Hello, boobs, I’m Alvin Purple, and you’re not a bad set either. — Alvin Purple, p. 7, 1974
- in horse or dog racing, a wager or the cumulative amount of wagers taken against a particular contestant AUSTRALIA
- Duvi, some of your fellow bagmen have taken a big set against Tamarama Boy, how do you see it? — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 2, 1988
- a still used in the illegal production of alcohol US
- — David W. Maurer, Kentucky Moonshine, p. 124, 1974
- in prison usage, a continuance of a parole hearing US
- — Maledicta, p. 267, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know It: the pessimism of prison life”
▶ have a set on
to be hostile towards someone AUSTRALIA, 1866- It can’t be only that they’ve a set on the Thornes, because they always had it for Old Man Suderman. — Kylie Tennant, Lost Haven, p. 133, 1946
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