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BlueTrain

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Not to be confused with "do-hickey."

I've never heard the word "yute" before. But a gold star to anyone who knows what a "Yuke" is? Hint: this is a shortened name for something else. That's the way it would have been pronounced, though it would never have appeared in print like that. And it ain't a ukulele.
 

vitanola

I'll Lock Up
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Gopher Prairie, MI
Hickey.
Is that word still in around?

I remember it twice.
When I was a yute. ;)

My Uncle Joe gave me my first Hickey when I was nine.

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A Greenlee 508.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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"Gyp" started to fall out of favor in the sixties, and was largely replaced by "rip-off." A lot of people today use "scam", but the shading of that word is different. A scam gives the impression of an organized swindle, like when a Nigerian prince asks you to help him smuggle a million dollars out of his bank, whereas a gyp or a rip-off referred to shoddy goods sold at an inflated price. I can't think of any new word that has precisely that meaning.
 
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Watching the movie "The Big Steal" yesterday I heard an expression (used twice) in the movie: "cop a Sunday." Which, in context seemed to mean trick or sucker punch. Having since looked it up on the web, yup, sucker punch seems to be the most common definition.

The first time it was used, it was "cop a Sunday," the second time it was (I think) "pull a Sunday" or maybe "take a Sunday." Same meaning, but the first word did change.

I don't remember ever hearing this one before.
 

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