[Ads-l] _drop the lip_

[Margaret Lee]

 Geneva Smitherman's _Black Talk_ defines 'scream on' as "to put someone down; to 'dis' a person."  Clarence Majors'  _Juba to Jive_ defines it as "to give away a secret or to betray the confidence of someone; to tell; to inform; to attack; to betray."
--Margaret Lee   

    On ‎Thursday‎, ‎March‎ ‎29‎, ‎2018‎ ‎09‎:‎42‎:‎39‎ ‎PM‎ ‎EDT, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:  
 
 '40's-'50's StL slang: "narc on, scream on*, rat out, drop a dime on," etc.

*Back in the '60's, I heard Myron Cohen use "scream on" in the sense of
"upbraid, harangue, fuss at." "Scream on" has these meanings in BE, too.

Youneverknow.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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