Trash Talk - Help.

[Margaret Lee]

In the African American oral tradition, the term has always been
talking trash, "the art of dissin one's opponent during competitive
play (as in basketball) ..so as to erode their confidence, get them
rattled, or distracted so they'll make poor plays and lose the game;
the art of using strong, clever talk..."  (Smitherman, _Black Talk_,
1994[p. 221],2000); (Major,_Juba to Jive_, 1994, p. 466).  I think
the media changed it to trash talk.


--- Tom Dalzell <slangman at PACBELL.NET> wrote:
> For the modern usage, I have:
>
> "She started talking trash through her hair."
> Piri Thomas: DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS (1967)
> p 112
>
> It is also found in Hy Lit's Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words
> for
> Groovy People (1968), p. 39.
>
>
> Tom Dalzell
>
> >
> >



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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
 & University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
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