Dorinda's Secret (13 page)
Authors: Deborah Gregory
Blab your trap:
Talk too much. Blow up: Become really really successful.
Bozo:
A boy who thinks he's all that but he isn't.
Coming out of the box:
All of a sudden. Out of the blue but not true blueânot for real.
D.D.L.:
On the down, down low. For example: you just got your report card and you got a C in biology. When you get home, you run to your room and stay on the D.D.L. from your mom until dinnertime.
Emphatically:
On the serious tip.
Enuf with the powder puff:
Dress rehearsal is over. It's show time, baby.
Feels like a “Magilla Gorilla”:
Feels too heavy.
Fib-eronis:
Teeny weeny fibs. Purple lies and alibis!
Flex and floss:
Do your thing. Make things happen faster than Minute Rice.
Hoax-arama:
Something that isn't true.
Hunky chunky:
Cool, fine, as in: “Everything is fine” (even if it isn't).
Jammy whammy:
A dope song. As in, “That's a master jammy whammy!”
Joint:
Supa chili. As in, “That song is the joint.”
Jumpstreet:
The place where you get to the point, as in, “You shoulda just asked me that from jumpstreet.”
Muslin:
Plain white fabric used for draping and making a pattern for clothes.
Piggly-wiggly giggle:
An oinky-sounding laugh.
Posse:
Crew. The peeps you hang with.
Put in check:
Straightening out someone who is dissing you. Letting them know, it's not like that, okay?
Q.T.:
On the hush, hush, sneak, sneaky or the quick tip.
Radikkio:
Ridiculous. As in, “Don't be radikkio!”
Rigor mortis:
Temporary stiffening of muscles in a corpse.
Spastic-on-the-elastic tip:
Someone who doesn't know how to go with the flow.
The big bulb from above:
The mysterious source of all Big Willy ideas.
The spookies:
The “willies.”
Thinking without blinking:
When you really know something is true.
To hype up:
Support. Represent to the max.
Toodles:
Bye. See you later.
Toodly:
Fine, okay. Like when someone asks you, “How are you?” You respond, “I'm toodly.”
Twizzling:
Twisting something into pretzel shapes or just messing around with it.
Acknowledgments
I
have to give it up to the Jump at the Sun peeps hereâAndrea Pinkney, Lisa Holton, and Ken Geistâfor letting the Cheetah Girls run wild. Also, Anath Garber, the one person who helped me find my Cheetah Girl powers. And, Lita Richardson, the one person who now has my back in the jiggy jungle. Primo thanks to the cover girl Cheetahs: Arike, Brandi, Imani, Jeni, and Mia. And to all the Cheetah Girls around the globe: Get diggity with the growl power, baby!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah Gregory earned her growl power as a diva-about-town contributing writer for
Essence, Vibe
, and
More
magazines. She has showed her spots on several talk shows, including
Oprah, Ricki Lake,
and
Maury Povich
. She lives in New York City with her pooch, Cappuccino, who is featured as the Cheetah Girls' mascot, Toto.
All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2000 by Deborah Gregory
ISBN 978-1-4976-7720-3
This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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