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[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>
> I hardly expect this usage to be news to any reader of this list, but I
> was surprised not to find it in dictionaries.

I'm pretty sure it's in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary,
as I remember working on this entry whilst I was there.

We have a draft entry for OED that should appear in the next one
or two updates (whenever we get to "ON-"); I'm not in the office now
but I think our first quote was from the 1940s or something like
that.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED