play the dozens , auch: shoot the dozens

I didn't know how to play the dozens or do double Dutch.

The second bus is for playing the dozens, arguments, even fights.

Insults involving "your mother" are commonly used when playing the dozens.

A forerunner of dissing, it was known as "playing the Dozens."

Basketball, football players play the dozens to psych out and intimidate strong opponents.

Most people know this as "Playing the Dozens".

The television show Yo Momma features contestants "playing the dozens."

But-look, it's never polite to play the dozens, is it?"

A huge cast of seasoned British stage and film actors was assembled to play the dozens of roles.

Marions face burst into a sudden grin and she chuckled, Is that supposed to be a compliment, or you playing the dozens?

The classic name for this verbal contest is playing the dozens; the current street name is snapping.

What we were all engaged in, I realized, was an Upper West Side version of "playing the dozens."

Before there was rap, you see, there was playing the dozens, that satisfying sport of competitive exaggeration.

He did not understand black trends in fashion or music or little things like playing the dozens, the oral tradition of dueling insults.

"Let's not play the dozens.

He is also a budding comedian, although most of his humor consists of trying to play the dozens on Huey, which always falls flat.

"You don't want to start in playing the dozens with me," Susannah said, "I'll bring out Detta Walker and shut you down."

But their most remarkable talent, the one that truly sets them apart, is playing the dozens; quips find their targets with the speed and precision of a surgical air assault.

"We played the dozens for recreation, like white folks play Scrabble," H. Rap Brown said of his youth in the 1950's, and the games are just as popular today, especially among young men.

And with black culture placing a hefty premium on the quick, creative insult - "playing the dozens" has always been high art - it is no surprise that the disagreements have been highly personal.

George Carlin also referenced the Dozens in his Occupation: Foole album (1973) while talking about his upbringing in Manhattan: "You wanna play the Dozens?

William D. Pease, a former assistant United States Attorney in Washington, wrote "Playing the Dozens," a novel about political corruption in the District of Columbia, which was published by Viking in September.

California alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde's debut album Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde featured as its first single "Ya Mama" mainly of the group playing the dozens, released October 8, 1992.

None of them are known to play the dozens or indulge in sand-kicking, so one can hope that Chávez and Uribe are not, in fact, heralding the return of the caudillo but a last hurrah for embarrassing machismo.