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This heading has layers of meaning that can be peeled off like the skins of an onion.
Incidentally, I seem to recall reading somewhere that skins as slang for `dollars' dates from frontier days when trappers used animal skins as currency, and is therefore much older than early 20th-century Harlem.
Leopard skins do appear frequently in ancient Egyptian art, but as privileged ritual gear, slung over the shoulders of priests with paws and tail dangling down.
acecray outcray putting the ace on the bottom of the deck, where the dealer can abstract it bah-bah negligible object cake-slashing assault and mayhem century hundred dollars chippy dissolate girl chivvy unpleasant odor clip your tongue be silent cram the paper cheat at cards cut your chops mind your own business five hard a fist, or a punch frill girl, woman glued their traps remained silent going to the timbers retreating grand thousands dollars grease it pay bribe money, or blackmail hamburger down take it easy hock your skin make a difficult promise hootch liquor hotsprat trival but agreeable en- tertainment in the hole out of money lame your foot deprive you of assistance leathered kicked unfairly lippy-chaser a negro who prefers whites payman, a a cadet pinktail white person scrub face slide them into the eject them to the concrete sidewalk spreadeagle to knock down stick it capture something stick-stick defeated by the previous capture stretch jail term three-nine sexual variant thumb use the thumb to displace cards in a poker-game trip his muscle over-reach himself wraps, or skins, or strips dollars
Buffalo was everything to these tribes — food, clothes, and tents; and twelve to fourteen buffalo skins were needed to construct a single teepee.
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