"come correct" meaning in English

See come correct in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: comes correct [present, singular, third-person], coming correct [participle, present], came correct [past], come correct [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|come<,,came,come> correct}} come correct (third-person singular simple present comes correct, present participle coming correct, simple past came correct, past participle come correct)
  1. (African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To behave properly or decently; to do the right thing. Tags: intransitive

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          "ref": "1999?, Vibe (volume 7, number 10, December 1999 to January 2000, page 250)",
          "text": "Here, Tamar warns guys to come correct. \"I won't be no ho / Just drop my clothes / And all the silly things that you're used to,\" she boldly sings."
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          "ref": "2006, Craig Hansen Werner, A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America, page 329",
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