toopaloons

[sagehen]

>Greg Pulliam wrote:

>A colleague here at IIT has asked me about this word, having heard it
>on a New Jersey radio station.  The context was something like, "It's
>real cold out there--better pull your toopaloons down over your ears."
>
>I checked a couple of dictionaries, but found nothing under any
>spellings that I could think of.
>
>Is anyone familiar with the term?

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Can't help wondering if toupee comes into this somehow.  There's also
tuque, of course, the standard Canadian term for what we generally call a
stocking cap, but that's less like toopaloon.
A. Murie