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Dutchman

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Amiri Baraka
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Dutchman can refer to:

  • A person of Dutch descent.
  • (Theater) A Dutchman is a strip of material used to cover the join between two flats
  • The nickname of Dutch Schultz, a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and '30s.
  • The Dutchman, a play by Amiri Baraka
  • A Pennsylvania German, or, more generally, any American of German descent. Here, "Dutch" is believed to be a corruption of "Deutsch," the German-language word for "German."
  • A highly-alcoholic punch, similar to jungle juice, popular at college parties


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