pootbutt

pootbutt
 n.— «Then it was competing with Gompers and Mount Vernon for the status of the junior high most likely to beat down a half-assed pootbutt who liked to read.» —“A Writer’s Life” by Jervey Tervalon LA Weekly (Los Angeles, California) Feb. 18, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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