[Ads-l] _homes_ BE slang "friend,"

[Wilson Gray]

HDAS, GDoS: 1971

Raid on the After Hour [sic] Joint - 1954
(Jimmy Coe)
Jimmy Coe and his Gay Cats of Rhythm
Say, _homes_, who's that chick that jes' walked in?
States Record Company S-129
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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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