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Word: gotcha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating that "by jingo" and "gotcha" are supposed to be terrif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thoroughly Maudlin | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...action scenes the Gaullist heroes-ludicrously misdirected by Rene Clement, who made his reputation with a film about children (Forbidden Games)-look so much like a platoon of preschool toddlers playing bang-I-gotcha! that instead of glory they get mostly guffaws. After an hour or so of this, most previewers were badly rattled. Some tried plugging their ears, but then the action looked completely incomprehensible. Some tried closing their eyes, but then they could still hear the lines-e.g., "Fifty kilometers to Paris? Hm. That's about 30 miles." Finally, a few coony old film critics discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bcmg-l-Gotcha! | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

They do the most delightful things down at Yale. Three freshmen were implicated last week in an incident involving a "gotcha" exposure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expose Yalie 'Gotchas' | 10/25/1961 | See Source »

...gotcha" was allegedly flashed during a Saturday night party in a freshman's room. A New Haven police officer spotted the "gotcha," one of several reported in recent weeks, from Elm Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expose Yalie 'Gotchas' | 10/25/1961 | See Source »

...gotcha," for those who don't know, ain't fitten to talk about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expose Yalie 'Gotchas' | 10/25/1961 | See Source »

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