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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:30:37 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > >I guess it means that the heels are worn down -- probably unevenly -- i.e.,
- > >part of the heel is thicker than another part.
- >
- > But if so, is this somehow significant?
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- He's sloppy? Macho-style unkemptness?
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- > "Irritable" doesn't fit. There are two passages:
- >
- > a) "he wouldn't piss on a cop on the pad if he was on fire",
- > b) "When you were a cop...how many guys were on a pad?"
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- On the beat??
-
- > They're the same size here. But what is the derivation of "BB"?
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- "A standard size of lead shot that measures about .46 cm., or 0.18 in.,
- in diameter. [Perh. from the letter b.]" American Heritage Dictionary.
- What's Perh.? I keep thinking it must be something obvious, but my mind
- is blank at the moment.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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