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[Jonathan Lighter]

See HDAS for white use of "bo."

JL

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 4:00 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >   In an interesting example of its currency, it also occurs in a highly
> >   publicized recording featured on 20/20 in which the speaker on the
> >   recording shouts: "Bó, you fuckin smilin like it's fuckin funny!!
> [...] My
> >   fuckin girlfriend gone, bó!"
>
> This is a better quality recording of his words.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHm4joezYsk
>
> Different people hear things differently, but if I were transcribing his
> speech, I'd have written:
> "Boy you're [words run together] f---in smilin . . . My f---in
> girlfriend's gone, bro!"
>
> Given that the speaker is intoxicated and is slurring his speech, I don't
> think one can be definitive about this.
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