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Word: jeep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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