Meaning of read someone's beads | Babel Free

Definitions

To read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

dated, slang, transitive

Examples

“1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He began to read our beads saying he's observed us often & he sees J as "a villain," not very flexible or open & a cynical person. But he sees me as a man with a sense of humor, much more open to different things, that J can't adjust to change.”

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