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spook
noun- a black person US
Derogatory and offensive. - Only in Little Tokyo they’d have to kill and be killed, for those spooks down there were some really rugged cats[.] — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 77, 1945
- Quite a lot of spooks get done for takeing (sic) charge. — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, p. 143, 1958
- “Listen,” she said with no question in her voice, “you on one of them spook kicks?” — Bernard Wolfe, The Magic of Their Singing, p. 103, 1961
- You wait until you see a spooks’ dance! — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 47, 1964
- Nevertheless, uneasy white males still continue to tighten their rosy sphincters at the approach of spooks. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 88, 1968
- I’m what a lot you spooks might think of as a red neck with a terminal case of the dumb-ass. — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, p. 7, 1972
- The spooks said no Ricans could go west of Fifth Avenue. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 8, 1975
- Some won’t take spooks. Hell, don’t make no difference to me. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- Fucking spook. Clement began thinking of the guy as a Cuban-looking jig. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 14, 1980
- “A Spook and a Paddy [Irishman] go into a boozer,” blah, blah, blah ... — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 151, 2000
- a ghost US, 1801
- The headmasters were Elvis Presley and the spook of Jimmy Dean, and the entrance requirements were completely democratic. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 57, 1957
- a spy US, 1942
- The continually emphasize that they are not spooks, but in such a way as to heighten the suspicion that such activities are at least common diversions. — Donald Duncan, The New Legions, p. 151, 1967
- The Army was full of spooks. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 633, 1974
- In the spook world they use words like “departure” or “termination” in ways that would not be acceptable in the general business community. — Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 169, 13 October 1986
- [H]e certainly wasn’t about to ring Sophie with all these wanky spooks hanging around. — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 96, 2001
- Let me tell you, being a spook is the most boring job on the planet. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 137, 2002
- a drug-addict UK
From the addict’s ghostly pallor. - — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958
- a psychiatrist US
- — American Speech, pp. 145–148, May 1961: “The spoken language of medicine; argot, slang, cant”
- in casino blackjack, a player who can spot the dealer’s down card US
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 79, 1991
- in drag racing, a car that crosses the starting line too soon US
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 154, 1968
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