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(usually with "the", African-American Vernacular) A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults. quotations examples
[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”
2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34