haggies - dibs

[Anne Lambert]

We always used "dibs" (Chicago suburbs). I don't remember "first" or
"no."

James Smith wrote:

> --- Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> > 25.  Haggies or No Haggies...When someone bought a
> > box of candy, you would
> > yell haggies and he would have to share with you
> > unless that person had
> > shouted no haggies first
> >
> >     "Haggies" is, unfortunately, not in DARE.  It is
> > the rare term that's not
> > found on ANY of my search engines (Nexis, Dow Jones,
> > Alta Vista, Lycos,
> > Infoseek, Deja News, et al.).  Someone from the
> > Bronx had once asked me about
> > "haggies."
>
> "Dibs" or "first dibs"
> and "No dibs" when I was growing.  Are those more
> common or widespread terms?
>
> JIM
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