Pecong
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According to playwright steve carter
, who wrote an award-winning play of the same name, a pecong is a "verbal battle of insults hurled in rhymed verse."
Steve Carter (playwright)
Horace E. "Steve" Carter, Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States.-Biography:...
, who wrote an award-winning play of the same name, a pecong is a "verbal battle of insults hurled in rhymed verse."
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