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square up
verb
to return to the path of righteousness after a sojourn in sin US- Soon’s I kick this habit I’m gon’ square up and git a job. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, pp. 78–79, 1968
- Mama, I haven’t shot any “H” in ten years. I haven’t had a whore in five years. I squared up. I work every day. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 29, 1969
- How do women “square up” and leave prostitution, and how many do so? — Charles Winick, The Lively Commerce, p. 73, 1971
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