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Dat black niggah foots, and dat are white man foot.

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  1. Refuse or sediment, as at the bottom of a sugar- or oil-cask, etc. Foots, bottoms, or such like names, have been borrowed from the tar-distiller to signify the refuse products of the stills. Ure, Dict., III. 771. The darkest foots [in sugar], so called from its receiving the drainage or moisture from the other portion of sugar in the hogshead while in a horizontal position during the voyage from the West Indies. H. Weatherby, Sugar, p. 18.

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  • Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Van with new tricks like one-foots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more.
  • Sweet Home Alabama (C. Jay Cox, with Kenneth Rance), the movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • Sweet Home Alabama, the movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • Little mo' en you'll up'n stan' me down dat snakes ain't got no foots, and yit you take en lay a snake down yer 'fo' de fier, en his foots 'll come out right 'fo' yo' eyes Uncle Remus paused here, but presently continued Atter ole Miss Goose en Brer Rabbit done pass de time er day wid one er n'er, Brer Rabbit, he ax 'er, he did, how she come on deze days, en Miss Goose say, mighty po'ly I'm gittin' stiff en I'm gittin' clumpsy,' sez she, 'en mo'n dat I'm gittin' bline,' sez she. —  Nights With Uncle Remus
  • Us didn't git no shoes for our foots, winter or summer, 'til us was ten years old Marse Johnny Poore, he was kilt in de war and den Old Mist'ess, she was our Miss Annie, looked atter de plantation 'til her only child, young Miss Ann, married Marse Tom Dean. —  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
 

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  1. A conformed plural of foot, in the deflected sense of sediment: see foot, n., 15.
 

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