Did you by any chance mean one of these? setback, wetback
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“Bode chose the name of the group, discovering that the hobo expression "sweetback" is a person who samples the vagrant life.”
“Need help with blaxploitation movies of 1970s - Superfly, Shaft, sweet badass sweetback song.”
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Invisible Man
Words culled from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
sweetback, inspirit, plasticine, atoss, hyperreceptivity, laugher-at-wounds, necrophily, monopolate, aliveness, thinker-tinker, weltschmerz, klieg and 113 more...
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Jazz
discoveries and oddities in Toni Morrison's Jazz (1992)
marcelling, kitty, fay, winterbound, slappable, tiptoer, dracena, doctor plant, deep-down, tonk, suds, citified and 21 more...
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qroqqa He cuts his eyes over to the sweetbacks lounging on the corner.
—Toni Morrison, Jazz Dec 29, 2008