WUXTRA ! WUXTRA!: "hike down," "man up"

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

I think "pitch a tent" goes back as far as Beavis and Butthead, at least.
 
>I think that "go commando" is as old as "Seinfeld." I've heard "pitch
>a tent" used by women on late-night dating shows - "I love it when I
>can make a guy pitch a tent" - over the past couple or three years, at
>least.

>-Wilson

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