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"ref": "1986 November 6, “The New Style”, in Licensed to Ill, performed by Beastie Boys",
"text": "Spent some bank, I got a high powered jum / Rolled up the woolie, and I watched Colombo",
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"ref": "2002, Smokey D. Fontaine, E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX, New York, N.Y.: HarperEntertainment, published 2003, page 93",
"text": "But when Ready Ron spoke of the great high I could get from a \"woolie,\" the \"new thing on the block,\" he didn't tell me how differently it would affect my life.",
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"ref": "2004, Michael Baptiste, Cracked Dreams, Bowie, M.D.: Strebor Books International LLC, page 96",
"text": "\"That's my word, God,\" he said, confirming my assumption. \"You remember that kid that used to be a worker for us, but kept coming up short on his packs?\" ¶ \"Who, that nigga that started smoking woolies, and shit?\"",
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"ref": "2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 105",
"text": "Me and a lot of my crew smoked woolies, a mixture of coke and weed packed into a blunt. At first it was some fly shit to be doing, some baller shit, because you needed money for the weed and the crack, so it was like rich man shit. Soon, though, some dudes couldn't kick the habit and got turned out.",
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"A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine."
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"ref": "1986, Julianne Belote, Guide to the Recommended Country Inns of the West Coast: California, Oregon, Washington, Chester, C.T.: The Globe Pequot Press, page 113",
"text": "I'm a pushover for an innkeeper who calls out as you're leaving for a walk on the beach, \"Better take a woolie with you, do!\"",
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"ref": "1995, Lin Summerfield, Taken by a Stranger, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, page 10",
"text": "Nicky yawned, shivered a little. She should have a cardigan, he thought; her flesh was goose-pimpled. \"You're cold. Can't you go and get a woolie?\" ¶ \"Why should I? I'm not cold. Might go for a swim in a minute.\"",
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"ref": "2007, Fiona Dunbar, Toonhead, London: Orchard Books, page 111",
"text": "Cold up there, y'know, on them mountain peaks. Brrr! Wouldn't want to be stuck up there wivout a woolie or five.'",
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"ref": "2015, D. Wallace Peach, Eye of Fire, Maynard, A.R.: Mockingbird Lane Press, page 299",
"text": "\"Did you truly sew up his head?\" ¶ \"I did.\" Cradog nodded. \"Started out mendin' sails for Arthfael, workin' as a boatswain. I can darn a woolie like a spinster.\"",
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"ref": "2018, Paula Chase, Dough Boys, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, page 174",
"text": "He threw a woolie on his head and pulled it down to his ears as best as he could over his thick locs.",
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"ref": "1986 November 6, “The New Style”, in Licensed to Ill, performed by Beastie Boys",
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},
{
"ref": "2002, Smokey D. Fontaine, E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX, New York, N.Y.: HarperEntertainment, published 2003, page 93",
"text": "But when Ready Ron spoke of the great high I could get from a \"woolie,\" the \"new thing on the block,\" he didn't tell me how differently it would affect my life.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Michael Baptiste, Cracked Dreams, Bowie, M.D.: Strebor Books International LLC, page 96",
"text": "\"That's my word, God,\" he said, confirming my assumption. \"You remember that kid that used to be a worker for us, but kept coming up short on his packs?\" ¶ \"Who, that nigga that started smoking woolies, and shit?\"",
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},
{
"ref": "2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 105",
"text": "Me and a lot of my crew smoked woolies, a mixture of coke and weed packed into a blunt. At first it was some fly shit to be doing, some baller shit, because you needed money for the weed and the crack, so it was like rich man shit. Soon, though, some dudes couldn't kick the habit and got turned out.",
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"ref": "1986, Julianne Belote, Guide to the Recommended Country Inns of the West Coast: California, Oregon, Washington, Chester, C.T.: The Globe Pequot Press, page 113",
"text": "I'm a pushover for an innkeeper who calls out as you're leaving for a walk on the beach, \"Better take a woolie with you, do!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Lin Summerfield, Taken by a Stranger, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, page 10",
"text": "Nicky yawned, shivered a little. She should have a cardigan, he thought; her flesh was goose-pimpled. \"You're cold. Can't you go and get a woolie?\" ¶ \"Why should I? I'm not cold. Might go for a swim in a minute.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Fiona Dunbar, Toonhead, London: Orchard Books, page 111",
"text": "Cold up there, y'know, on them mountain peaks. Brrr! Wouldn't want to be stuck up there wivout a woolie or five.'",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, D. Wallace Peach, Eye of Fire, Maynard, A.R.: Mockingbird Lane Press, page 299",
"text": "\"Did you truly sew up his head?\" ¶ \"I did.\" Cradog nodded. \"Started out mendin' sails for Arthfael, workin' as a boatswain. I can darn a woolie like a spinster.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Paula Chase, Dough Boys, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, page 174",
"text": "He threw a woolie on his head and pulled it down to his ears as best as he could over his thick locs.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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