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Word: plums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLANGOGRAPHY. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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