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- adjective Being or pertaining to
Ebonics .
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Examples
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Why are there no Gangbangers, no Homeless people with Hepatitis, and no Ebonic speaking signs in David Suzuki's private life boat for Spaceship Earth?
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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I can say that I would get a person who doesn't have so pronounced an Ebonic accent and a few less colloquialisms.
Can We Change? And "Resident Evil 5" Steven Barnes 2009
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Ebonic spittin' heroic clowns (skids and mudflap) to ebonic spittin' serious badasses (ironhide).
No One Wants To Own Up To Racism In Transformers | /Film 2009
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Ebonic master-blaster and P-Funk graphic artist, Stozo The Clown, wrote back to me:
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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But any non-Ebonic, non-southern derived accent will do.
The Way I Talk James Killus 2008
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But any non-Ebonic, non-southern derived accent will do.
Archive 2008-05-01 James Killus 2008
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CAROL MIMS-GALLOWAY, PRESIDENT, HOUSTON NAACP CHAPTER: I don't think that persons should be printing ghetto handbooks, "Ebonic 101."
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I can't help but wonder if the more politically correct object to the Ebonic lilt of Madame Waller's speech patterns.
SUICIDE SQUAD #10 DC Comics, 1987 David Campbell 2007
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I don't believe "Do what?" and its cousin "Say what?" both meaning "What did you say?" are Ebonic.
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Some of the Ebonic lexical items may also be shared by white Southerners.
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