[Ads-l] Antedating of "Crib" (African American Slang)

[Shapiro, Fred]

crib (African American slang) (Green's Dictionary of Slang 1957)

1941 Pittsburgh Courier 27 Dec. 7 (ProQuest)  SWING "SLANGUAGE" ... Dead-lurk a crib, or do a crack.

1944 Call (Kansas City, Mo.) 17 Nov. 2/4 (ProQuest)  Dan Burley Publishes Book of Harlem Jive ... All through the crib; You could hear Joe Hip speaking that righteous ad lib.

Fred Shapiro

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