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Word: goofed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them: Nola, Goof us, Tennessee Waltz, Mockin' Bird Hill, How High the Moon, The World Is Waiting jor the Sunrise, Just One More Chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Sound | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...goof ball is not a marijuana smoker (weed-head, viper, tea-hound, herb). A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a certain barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Besides drug addicts, there are the usual thrill-seekers who take goof balls instead of marijuana, quite often ending up as confirmed addicts of the opium (hop, brown stuff) derivatives, such as morphine (M), heroin (H, horse, white stuff), or the coca-leaf extract, cocaine (C, Charlie, snow), which combined with heroin is injected as a "speed-ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...book went to press, hardworking Lexicographer Partridge ordered a batch of addenda bound in to catch such sprouts, new to him, as winchell (a swindler's victim), boodled (loaded with cash), cooties' reveille (lights-out in the cells), hoochie-papping (stealing another man's girl), goof ball (marijuana smoker) and mouse-kick (watch-pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A College Is a Prison | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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