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Jeff
noun- an all-purpose name for a man US
- Don’t be a bear and act like a square get with the jeffs that are going somewhere — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, 1953
- a white person, especially one who is hostile towards black people US
- Chalk the walking Jeffs. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 120, 1959
- “The agent’s a goddam guinea, just like the owner,” Red charged. “Them Jeffs is workin’ together.” — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 144, 1961
- a dull individual, a pest US, 1938
Originally a shortened form of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the US Civil War, 1861–65. Afro-American slang remembered him as a southern white racist, and reduced him to the status of pest.
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