blackspeak
nounEtymology From black + -speak.
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The dialect of English spoken by people of sub-Saharan African ancestry living stateside.
- It sounds odd to us now, but contemporary sources... suggest how the archaic blackspeak that we associate with blackface performers had some of the aura of the later white appropriations of black speech.1995, Robert Dawidoff, “The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'”, in Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush, editors, Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 302:
- Jordan's records were the first time many whites encountered the nuances of hip urban blackspeak.2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, Hal Leonard, →ISBN, page 64:
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- Like Hawk, he moved easily in and out of blackspeak as it suited him.2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 35:
- Synonyms
- African American Vernacular English, AAVE, Ebonics