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[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 17 Mar. 3/4: The girls came to school with their hair smooth over the ears where tiny balloons or cootie coops had blossomed before.
at cootie-coops (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 20 Aug. 3/2: The ‘slut lamp’ so named because of its untidiness. It is made of clay, resembles a saucer with a pinched groove [...] filled with any type of grease and a twisted rag laid in the grease with one end lighted and placed in the groove.
at slut (lamp) (n.) under slut, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 15 Mar. 6/4: This a a real confession, Dad, goofed. That’s it, a boo-boo.
at goofed, adv.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 15 Mar. 6/3: At the University of Nevada [...] ‘Jive rattle’ is bop talk.
at jive rattle (n.) under jive, n.1
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 15 Mar. 6/3: What in mother’s day was called a ‘sheik’ is a now an ‘M.O.A.’ — Make Out Artist .
at make-out artist (n.) under make out, v.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 15 Mar. 6/3: In Chicago a person behind the times is called ‘moldy’.
at mouldy, adj.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 26 June 31/4: Many of us have experinced the effects of nitrous oxide at the family dentists, where it may have been called [...] giggle gas.
at giggle gas (n.) under giggle, adj.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 9 May 37/3: Pep pills, mindbenders exploded on the children of the ’50s.
at mind-bender, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 6 May 18/5: Germans insult them [i.e. immigrants] with divisive names such as ‘camel driver,’ ‘macaroni eater’.
at camel-driver (n.) under camel, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 21 Sept. H14/3: After the dice are turned by the stickman [etc].
at stickman, n.2
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 13 May B14/4: The one about the touch artist who said he was running for president and wanted a campaign contribution.
at touch artist (n.) under touch, n.1
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 17 Mar. 20/2: Shamrock tea wouldn’t be their style now.
at shamrock tea, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 19 Sept. D16: The Rev. Teararse (the name says it all), Detective Malarkey (likewise).
at tear-arse, n.2
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 14 Aug. E7/4: ‘[A] sort of snideness that’s creeping into some shows’.
at snideness (n.) under snide, adj.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) Section D 9 Mar. 58/3: If you have two people who are both competent [...] but one is really good at schmoozing...the one likely to get the raise is the schmoozer.
at schmooze, v.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) Section D 9 Mar. 58/3: We may loathe suck-ups, but [...] we all do it [...] kissing up to the boss [...] pays off.
at suck-up, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 25 May 72/1: That distinctively South Jersey ex[pression ‘shoobie,’ meaning a person who visits the sea shore for a single day.
at shoobie, n.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 14 Jan. A9/1: A fugitive associate of mob boss John Gotti who allegedly paid a juror a $60,000 bribe to seal an aquittal for the ‘Teflon Don’.
at Teflon, adj.
[US] Asbury Park Press (NJ) 17 Oct. 61/10: [advert] Adorable She-Male Babe.
at she-male, n.
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