mouse quoted The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher
'Listen. Somebody put that thing on Frimbo tonight. We all got to get together over there and find out who done it. Everybody was there.' 'Put what thing on him?' 'Cut him loose, man. Put him on the well-known spot.' 'Frimbo--" "Hisself.' 'Killed him?' 'If you want to put it that way.'
I can't get over this series of euphemisms for murdered