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Coxsackie: The life and death of prison reform choose

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[US] (ref. to 1950s) J.F.Spillane Coxsackie 97: In the fifties, the ‘diddy-bopper walk’—the defiant strut of the gang member—became known on the streets of New York City as the ‘Coxsackie shuffle’ in honor of the reformatory where it was so well practiced.
at Coxsackie shuffle, n.
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