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n.— «Got they’re hair and nails did while the kids lookin’ bombed out—running through the store tearing ish up & acting a fool.…A lot of these chicks see me as a potential implant in a ready made family. They kids lookin’ at me “n ish like “Are you gonna be our new daddy?”…If I take her to dinner, she wanna take a doggybag home to them and all that other ish.» —“Things I Hate About Work” by Des Life in text Format (Detroit, Mich.) Mar. 7, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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