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Newsweek 5 Aug. 26: Marihuana cigarettes, better known to users as ‘reefers’, ‘muggles’, or ‘Mary Warners’.at mary warner, n.
Newsweek 5 Aug. 26: Marihuana cigarettes, better known to users as ‘reefers’, ‘muggles’, or ‘Mary Warners’. Newsweek 31 Jan. 36: ‘Best buy’ was a dime-store product.at dime-store, adj.
Newsweek 13 28: It was best to hie yourself to the adjacent boozorium and listen to Mr. Benchley imitating pigeons.at boozorium, n.
Newsweek 13 Nov. 44/2: Transcontinental Network bubbled up out of the ‘soap operas’ .at soap opera, n.
Newsweek 22 Feb. 4: I tried to sweat out that third K-boy but it wouldn’t drop [HDAS].at K-boy, n.
Newsweek 28 Feb. 76/1: Joe was off again [...] to be the first to hit the heat and filth of India [...] He got ‘Delhi belly’ (a form of dysentery).at Delhi belly, n.
Newsweek 18 Mar. 34/1: The bunco artists start literally from the skin out, trading on the clothing shortage and the soldier’s natural desire to get into civvies [DA].at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
Newsweek 18 Mar. 34/1: The bunco artists start literally from the skin out, trading on the clothing shortage and the soldier’s natural desire to get into civvies [DA].at civvies, n.
Newsweek 16 Sept. 32/2: It gave the farm and the whole kit and boodle to Stanley [DA].at whole kit and caboodle (n.) under whole kit, n.
Newsweek 18 Mar. 34/1: ‘Ruptured duck’: GI for the discharge button which ex-service men wear in their lapels, also, ‘homecoming pigeon’ and ‘screaming eagle’ .at screaming eagle (n.) under screaming, adj.
Newsweek 1 Sept. 19/2: The rednecks were the poverty-stricken, white tenant farmers and share-croppers who lived in the piney woods and barren red-clay hills behind the Delta [DA].at redneck, n.
Newsweek 24 Nov. 60/3: As a ringer in the Sadie Hawkins race, she was last heard of pursuing a panic-stricken Dogpatcher [DA].at ringer, n.
Newsweek 24 Feb. 28/2: Tirelessly he promised ‘to put spizzerinctum into the Republican party.’ Explaining that ‘spizzerinctum’ means the ‘old get-up-and go,’ Sigler was nonplussed when the Democrats found the word also meant: ‘Tawdry adornment [...] as on a building; gimcrackery’ [DA].at spizzerinktum, n.
Newsweek 34 50/2: One longtime girlie-book editor fondly patted a stack of pictures and smiled nostalgically.at girlie book (n.) under girlie, adj.
Newsweek 16 Jan. 69/1: [He] had received his chance in life in some little mountain mission school in Tennessee and had used his training to strike it rich [DA].at strike it rich (v.) under strike, v.
Newsweek 8 Oct. 28: Nerds and Scurves: In Detroit, someone who once would be called a drip or a square is now, regrettably, a nerd, or in a less severe case, a scurve.at nerd, n.
Newsweek 5 Nov. 5: To those who fly it, the helicopter is a whirlybird or a puddle jumper.at puddlejumper, n.
Newsweek 5 Nov. 35: To those who fly it, the helicopter is a whirlybird or a puddle jumper.at whirlybird, n.
Newsweek 2 Nov. 54/3: A bad exam experience would be ‘I’m wasted’ at Howard, [...] It was ‘the pits’ at Vassar.at pit, n.
Newsweek 8 July 85: Cocktail-party sports use a ‘framis’ or broomstick to retrieve the Frisbee from under chairs [HDAS].at frammis, n.
Newsweek in Graham Framing the South 113: An authentic portrayal of a sometimes loveable, sometimes hateful, rippish, raffish, shiftless, slightly uncouth, tobacco-drooling old bum.at rippish (adj.) under rip, n.1
Newsweek 20 June 91/1: Compact, 1-ton ‘pup’ semi-trailers are hitched behind regularly scheduled intercity passenger buses.at pup, n.
Newsweek 66 18: Among some LA cops, a billy club is familiarly known as a ‘nigger knocker’.at nigger knocker (n.) under nigger, n.1
Newsweek 7 June 58/1: But a Little Orphan Annie dress by Mary Quant or Caroline Charles will do, or for the male, a set of Mod threads.at threads, n.
Newsweek 30 Oct. 85: For most straights, press reports of the East Village murders added a sinister new word to their glossary of hipisms.at hipism (n.) under hip, adj.
Newsweek 30 Oct. 85: For most straights, press reports of the East Village murders added a sinister new word to their glossary of hipisms.at straight, n.2
Newsweek 28 Oct. 71: Arledge had managed to cram nine events into a one-hour show, plus two interviews and three ‘honey’ shots (ABC lingo for prolonged looks at pretty female spectators).at honey, n.1
Newsweek 29 Nov. 20: ‘Take your homesick eyes off a me, blubberass,’ the Marine drill sergeant bayed at a plump young recruit [HDAS].at blubberass (n.) under blubber, n.2
Newsweek 5 Mar. 24: [He] worked his way through New York’s Richmond College with the help of G.I. benefits and part-time jobs. [...] ‘I nickeled-and-dimed it all through college.’.at nickel-and-dime, v.
Newsweek LXXXI 333: A paunchy local Leo, round face glistening with sweat, had been up to his armpits in the free lunch.at up to one’s armpits under armpit, n.
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