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Word: thumber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Young Man with a Slingshot | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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