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- phrase dialect Informal form of
belong .
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Examples
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"Ogu -- what place b'long you?" she went on with her catechism.
Chapter 18 2010
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"I'll come down there and bang 'm head b'long you," Sheldon replied, leaning toward the railing as if about to leap over.
Chapter 11 2010
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"White Mary b'long you bang 'm head," old Telepasse began again.
Chapter 11 2010
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"Me want 'm pay white Mary bang' m head b'long Gogoomy."
Chapter 11 2010
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Used to b'long to the Garber family, but they gave it up and moved on after a fire.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Den dey took dat axe and busted down de smokehouse door and told her she wuz free now and to help herself to anything she wanted, 'cause everything on de plantation wuz to b'long to de slaves dat had worked dar.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Dere warn't no fussin 'and fightin' on our place and us all knowed better'n to take what didn't b'long to us, 'cause Old Marster sho 'did git atter Niggers what stole.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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All the hands could go but ev'rybody had to has a pass, to sho 'who they b'long to.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Say, Katie, it's somepin 'to b'long to a vine like that, even if we do have it rotten sometimes!
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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Ye didn't guv it ter him; it doan't b'long ter ye, an 'th' lor doan't 'low ye ter take what hain't your'n.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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