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Word: dropper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin and cooing, "Come on, you big, bad Millionaire Gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Reagan Dutch or O & W? | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...play later, inveterate ball-dropper Connors coughed the ball up at the seven. Restic had obviously had enough of Connors' fumbling, and the senior scarely saw any action the rest...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Snoozing Gridders Wake Up to Top Penn, 28-17 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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