earlier appearance of rice-burner

Bernard W. Kane bkane at TIGGER.JVNC.NET
Sat Sep 16 22:58:22 UTC 2000


My guru Dr R L Chapman in his New Dictionary of Slang (Harper & Row 1986)
has
rice-burner  n  motorcyclists  A motorcycle of Japanese manufacture

probably transf to Japanese autos and in circulation much earlier.

Bernie Kane
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