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Word: meetcha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...hotel midway between Broadway and Madison Square Garden. At 17, as a copy boy on the Daily News, Cannon's skill with words caught the city editor's notice. Once, when a crank invaded the city room and introduced himself as "God," Cannon answered: "Pleased to meetcha. Heard a lot aboutcha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Broadway Minstrel | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Lancaster is probably the best acrobat now employed as an actor. After a series of gangster films, he obviously relishes his promotion from a hood to a Robin Hood. But dialogue still throws him, and his modern side-mouthings ("I'll meetcha inna tavern") sound a little disenchanting in Technicolored medieval Lombardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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