Heard on The Judges: _kickback_, n: new meaning

[Wilson Gray]

Twenty-ish, black male speaker:

I was going to a _kickback_ ...

Judge:

A what?

Speaker. A _kickback_. Anyway ...

Judge:

What's a "_kickback_"?

Speaker:

It's, uh, like a family get-together. In the backyard. You have some
bobby-q (an actual spelling used on?/in? a neon sign in Sth-Cent.
L.A., more likely joking than real; helped me to catch the pun in the
cookbook title, Barbecuing With Bobby), some brew, a little taste (=
"hard liquor") ...


BTW, this guy's speech, though otherwise typically working-class BE,
was fully r-ful. He actually said "barbecue" and not the "bobbih-cue"
of the last century.

--
-Wilson
–––
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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org