intransitive "represent"

[Drew Danielson]

how about "to front" or "to mack"... "frontin'" and "mackin'"?

older usage - The singer fronts the band.
newer usage - He fronts cos he ain't got it for real.

tho I can't think of a transitive use 'mack'....

Snoop Doggy Dog, _Gin and Juice_:  "I ... get to mackin to this bitch
named Sadie..."

Mackin', I think, is almost exclusively done by males.  Frontin' can be
done by either gender, tho apparently Latifah doesn't participate...

Queen Latifah, _Nuff' of the Ruff' Stuff'_:  "I write concepts, I don't
be frontin or be buggin"

Maybe "to bug" falls into this category, too...




P2052 at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> I've heard "represent" used quite often without a surface object; however,
> since in all of the cases, the object was understood (or elsewhere supplied),
> I considered "represent" not intransitive, but, rather, transitive, followed
> by an elliptical NP.
> EXAMPLE: I'm the only male in the choir, so I have to represent . . . [all
> males].
>                                                              P-A-T