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Attitude
(American)
A bad attitude, antisocial behaviour, sullen hostility. This use of the word without 'an' or 'the' probably derives from the black American prisoners' shortening of the white authority figures' phrases 'bad/negative/antisocial attitude' or their accusation, 'You've got an attitude problem'.
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