(US, informal, attributive) A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans.
(US, informal, attributive) A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans.
Over at NewsOne, Donovan X. Ramsey contrasted two approaches President Obama has taken with black audiences: 1) the finger-wagging, pull-up-your-pants approach that he often takes with African-Americans, like the graduates at all-male Mo…
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(idiomatic, slang) To call out or criticise someone for something they have done wrong.
(idiomatic, slang) To come to, visit.
(slang, AAVE) To stop harassing, insulting, obsessing over or spreading gossip about (someone).
(intransitive, slang, AAVE) To look good; to be dressed up so as to express one's wealth; to be blinged out; to look hard.
(transitive, AAVE, slang) To make or keep (someone) current in knowledge, fashion or supply of (something).