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salty adjective- angry, hostile US, 1938
- The soldiers got salty. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 75, 1945
- Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 61, 1946
- And they been sleepin’ in crevices and shoe boxes and shelves and holes in the walls ever since and they is very salty with you, Nero. — William “Lord” Buckley, Nero, 1951
- But he was in no position to jump salty with Danny[.] — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 5, 1954
- All reet, all reet. No call to come on salty. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 93, 1961
- “Got your ass torn, eh buddy?” “Yeah, the boss man got salty.” — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 103, 1965
- They were walking by Tiffany’s with Mary and me, and some starchy old cat whispered something salty to his wife as they walked by. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 122, 1965
- So they salty when you bring a new chick in the stable. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 48, 1967
- I get salty standing in a long line for my loving. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 184, 1969
- Robin, if I had some insurance, I wouldn’t be as salty as I am. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 111, 1973
- What you have to learn is how to ride the rap, do your own time, but get salty quick as you can. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 108, 1991
- uncouth; unpleasant US
- [He] brought in twenty dry holes before he got cured. That means “get rich”, in the salty lingo of the oil fraternity. — William Burroughs, Queer, p. 45, 1985
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