playing the dozens

A rhyming insult contest between two or more urban youths.

"Jimmy and Frank played the dozens and Jimmy was winning until he said somethin' about Frank's Mama."

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playing the dozens

1.A pursuit, native to Southside black youths, the prime practioners thereof, in which each attempts to outwit the other by deriding him with a greater and more prodigious succession of epithehs
2."oneupmanship"
3.Metaphorically-any two(or more) individauls who publicly exchange epitheths or have a public(esp.ongoing) altercation(particularly as a juxtapasisiton descrbing those who have probably never in their lives been on the South Side)

1.The two friends played the dozens.
2.Politician X played the dozens with Politican Y.

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