Antedating of "Preppie"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 22 12:38:50 UTC 2005


preppie, n. (OED 1970)

1956 _Harvard Crimson_ 29 Mar.  Eliot [House at Harvard] is crawling with
preppies.

Fred Shapiro


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