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shade
noun- a black person US, 1865
Offensive. - In no time at all Konky got on the ball / And had ten whorers–nine pinks and a shade. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 103, 1976
- “I reckon this is down to the Brown Brothers, don’t you, John.” “Who?” “The Shades” I have noticed before that you have to be very current to keep up with young London coppers’ slang. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 92, 1998
- a suntan US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 79, 1997
- a legitimate business that acts as a cover for an illegal enterprise US
- Shade is a legal business front that keeps an illegal business out of the bright light of police scrutiny. — Burgess Laughlin, Job Opportunities in the Black Market, p. 13–2, 1978
- detached superiority US
- — Kevin Dilallo, The Unofficial Gay Manual, p. 245, 1994
- a participant in a carnival scam whose role was to prevent clear views of the cheating US
- A shade, whose job was simply to lean this way and that way to cover the play from anyone not directly involved. — A.W. Stencell, Girl Show, p. 42, 1999
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