Citations:yam

English citations of yam

2005 June 7, “And Then What” (track 5), in Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101‎^[1], performed by Young Jeezy,Mannie Fresh:
Close shop then I do my count. Hide the rest of the yams at my auntie house (And then what?)

2013, Marcus Alexander, Keeper of the Realms: The Dark Army (Book 2), Penguin UK (→ISBN):
Charlie paused to stare at Kelko with a look of suspicion. 'What feast? And what parade?' 'So ya haven't been ta the celebration, yammed on lots of yummy food or walked in front of adoring crowds?' 'Stop playing, Kelko.'

2007, John R. Williams, What Could Have Been?: The Saint, the Sinner & the Attempt (→ISBN), page 85:
"I love ballin', I grew up with a bunch of brothers so I never got to go anywhere but to the street ball courts and basketball games. You know what's funny?" What? ... I did yam on that muthafucka. Damn it's a small world. Wow.
2021, Ben Detrick, Andrew Kuo, The Joy of Basketball: An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game, Abrams (→ISBN):
An incomparable dunker, Vince Carter was spectacular at very manner of mashing the ball through the hoop: […] looking like a bully yamming on a miniature basket. With long arms, huge hands, and a breathtaking vertical leap, Carter combined ferocity and sophistication like no other jammer.

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Shawn Kemp rose to stardom during the Posterization Era—a mid-nineties confluence of dunk contests, cable television highlights, trash talk, and slow defenders waddling around the lane waiting to be yammed on.

2010, David Kynaston, Austerity Britain, 1945-1951, Bloomsbury Publishing USA (→ISBN), page 364:#*: 'You do not need to have thousands of pounds of jewellery in your bag,' she added about her particular fear of being 'yammed on the head with a Cosh' by youths. 'They will yam you for 3 1⁄2 d and think it is all fun .