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Keiva asked: Can anyone confirm that US black-slang used to include the term HNIC, standing for "Head Negro in Charge"? ("negro" being here a more-polite version of the word actually used)
Indeed, this is true. There was a recent uproar when an article in Boston magazine about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was titled "Head Negro in Charge." Many objected to the obvious (to some) paraphrase of a very insulting and denigrating moniker.
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Wife As in SWMBOŽ (ask CapK)  of course, with Faldage, I let him think all the good ideas are his.....
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Better half.
This isn't very specific®, is it?
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When i was a kid it was Big Sister
I have heard a woman in charge being called "the Queen Bee"
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