did

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past of do
  2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do
    […]But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that." 1 March 2008, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, NYU Press, page 140
    We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why? 10 October 2010, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies, Edinburgh University Press, page 189
    “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!" 6 May 2014, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, Penguin, page 288

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