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  • adjective idiomatic Free from work or direct supervision. In reference to slave labor, where workers are chained, or to the figurative chain of workers of an assembly line.
  • adjective African American Vernacular Crazy and exciting; delirious and wild. By analogy to a frenetic dog when unleashed.

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