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

...Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen!" Anna revels in the torrent of these different personalities, faces and colors. She thinks to herself that if she had ever borne children she would have wanted them this way-the "offspring of many sires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wildly Alive | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...trading shin kicks and guzzling highballs to numb the pain-he was busy beefing up the Trib's sports section, with a canny eye for talent. It was Coach Woodward who hired Sports Columnist Red Smith away from the Philadelphia Record in 1945. "I was also an awful popoff," said Woodward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return of The Coach | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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