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spade
noun
a black person US, 1928- How in hell did I come to be living with a “spade”? — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 300, 1946
- And down there, with something like that happening and only a few Spades (colored folks) around, it wasn’t so good. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 146, 1954
- We had to look for him in this spade part of town most of the time. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 158, 1957
- The only spades to beat that rap was the fags and junkies. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 73, 1961
- On the dance floor, spade chicks with classic butts squeezed into gold and orange and red hugging dresses dance with gleaming faced Negro men. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 184, 1963
- We gets down Somerleyton Road, where all the Spades hang out. So Jimmy, whose mum and dad is West Indians, says we might as well go to his house. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 16, 1964
- Why is a white girl like you throwing yourself away with a spade? — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 94, 1964
- The spade went with a few guys, and then she wanted to quit, but the pregnant one was hot to trot. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels:, p. 17, 1966
- — J.L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening:, p. 172, 1966: “glossary”
- In the Haight the word “Negro” is almost never used. “Black” is employed by people tinged with New Left polluted understanding, the most common word is “spade.” — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 102, 1967
- Those of us who dropped out before acid have lived/loved with spades & know where it’s at, but the new kids don’t. — Berkeley Barb, p. 7, 3 March 1967
- Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like and dig and baby and scarf and split and later and so fine ... — Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 9, 1968
- The cops put me in the back room. I’m jiving with the spades. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 19, 1968
- [S]uddenly I knew–some big spade was going to leap out of the bedroom closet and spring for my heart with his knife. — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 180, 1969
- A spade cat from Port Washington joined the Quarry and tried to tell us what was on his mind. — East Village Other, 20 August 1969
- I got to run and find that spade they call Mule. — Darryl Poniscan, The Last Detail, p. 12, 1970
- I gave away a copy of my pamphlet and wound up in conversation with the guy who took it, this young spade kid who had the most intense brown eyes I have ever seen. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 121, 1971
- Audrey does her own impression of what the spade chick’s doing and wafts across the room towards me. — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 61, 1974
- The black girls are the Mod chicks of today–those little spade chicks you see running around in stacked heels and wedges[.] — Pete Meaden, The Ace Face’s Forgotten Story, The Sharper Word, p. 165, 1979
- A couple of spade cats cut by[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 132, 1980
- All the way from Swinging London, bringing rather different vibes, came the Who and the wild young “psychedelic Spade” Jimi Hendrix. — Barney Hoskyns, Waiting for the Sun, p. 144, 1996
▶ in spades
to a great degree US, 1929- I’m just talking about that crummy meeting and what that nurse and those other bastards did to you. Did in spades. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 56, 1962
- I am here to tell you that that ofay boy has really got sex appeal in spades! — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 90, 1968
- You’ll pay for what you’ve done! You’ll pay in spades! — Mallrats, 1995
- These men had that [style] in spades–so crisp and classy. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 32, 1999
- As it turned out, the house had the space we craved in spades. — Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, p. 54, 2001
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