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Word: flubadub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Usage:

Smith escaped last year for a much-needed vacation by telling his large and intent audience that he had to go to South America to find the Flubadub, a gangling, simple-minded animal that wears a flowerpot for a hat, has the head of a duck, a spaniel's ears, a giraffe's neck, the body of a dachshund, a seal's flippers, a pig's tail and cat's whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Six-Foot Baby-Sitter | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...cards which are placed on top of the offstage monitor set. "It looks something like a drunken Van Gogh's nightmare," says Smith. "My dialogue is printed in black letters, How-dy's in red, Mr. Bluster's in orange, the Flubadub in blue, Dilly Dally in green, and the Inspector in yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Six-Foot Baby-Sitter | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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