throw salt

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throw salt (third-person singular simple present throws salt, present participle throwing salt, simple past threw salt, past participle thrown salt)

1. (African-American Vernacular) To disparage or belittle.
   • 2008, Kiki Swinson, Wifey, page 24:

     I bet if I told him that the same niggas he be gambling wit', be calling me and throwing salt on his ass, he'd have a damn fit!

   • 2013, Rob Walker, Black City II, page 14:

     So dis mutha fucka started throwing salt on me and Roc's game. I saw the move.

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• stalworth