Vocabulary in Bud, Not Buddy

A small printed handbill or advertisement, often posted in public places to announce an event or person; here used for promotional posters advertising a jazz band.

To carry something, especially by hand or on one's person, often over a distance.

A small, simple outbuilding used for storage; here the place where Bud hides his suitcase and belongings.

A private household where a child who is not a family member is placed temporarily by a welfare agency and cared for, usually while awaiting permanent placement.

An orphanage or group residence for children without parents, run by a welfare or charitable organization.

The government or charitable system that provides support, including food, housing, and placement, for children and families in need during the Great Depression era.

Food; an informal, old-fashioned or dialect word for provisions or a meal.

To remove the outer husk or shell from something, such as corn; used here in a figurative or literal rural context.

A makeshift shantytown built by homeless and unemployed people during the Great Depression, sarcastically named after President Herbert Hoover, who was blamed for the economic crisis.

A charitable organization, often church-run, that provides free food, shelter, or other aid to poor or homeless people.

A queue of people waiting to receive free food, typically soup or bread, distributed by a charity or government relief organization during hard times.

A period term, now considered offensive, used in the 1930s United States to refer to Black or African American people.

A labor organization in which workers join together to negotiate for better wages, hours, and working conditions from their employers.

A worker who continues to work or takes the job of a striking worker, considered a traitor by union members.

A mild exclamation of surprise or emphasis, used as a polite substitute for a stronger oath; common in informal American speech of the 1930s.

An old, rundown, or poorly maintained automobile, typically one that barely runs.

A paid musical performance or engagement, especially for a jazz or blues band.

A thin strip of material in a woodwind instrument, such as a saxophone or clarinet, that vibrates to produce sound when the player blows air across it.

Short for alto saxophone, a mid-range woodwind instrument commonly used in jazz music.

Slang for money, used in jazz and African American vernacular of the 1930s.

To record or write down information in an official or systematic way, as in a record book.

Suffering from consumption, the old name for tuberculosis, a serious and often fatal lung disease; here describing someone who is visibly ill and wasting away.

Continuous periods of musical performance by a band before taking a break; a standard unit of a jazz band's show.

Conforming to the rules; in a music context, referring to formally trained, classically correct playing as opposed to improvised or self-taught style.

A term of address or kinship used among African American men in this era, meaning a fellow Black man or a close companion.