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The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the participants to reply with increasingly severe insults in order to heighten the tension and consequently make the contest more interesting to watch.
An example of signifyin' is "playing the dozens". The dozens is a game in which participants seek to outdo each other by throwing insults back and forth. Tom Kochman offered as an example in Rappin' and Stylin' Out: Communication in Urban Black America (1972): " Yo momma sent her picture to the lonely hearts club, but they sent it back and said ...
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For his Ph.D. research, Abrahams studied forms of speech play he had first encountered from African American Doo-wop singers in South Philadelphia. [4] His Ph.D. - "one of the first studies exploring urban Black expression on its own terms" [ 3 ] - formed the basis of his book Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets ...
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A dozen older slaves would verbally assault the victim to toughen them. 2602:306:CE95:57B0:58AC:6F32:57CC:D153 ( talk ) 22:55, 17 August 2023 (UTC) [ reply ] Missing context